Driving ... 'Round and Round'

Until a few years ago, I thought driving was fun.
I was eager to get my driver's license as a typical teenager, and managed to do that ONE WEEK after my 16th birthday!

Driving meant freedom: you could go places (and come back from places!) without having any formal itinerary.
While some of the fun was actually reaching your destination, most of it was 'getting there,' when you were observing what was happening along your route.
I really enjoyed taking a nice, fast drive on a big highway, especially on one of the 'Autoroutes' in Québec (and not getting lost! .. family joke) or on 'The 4-0-1' in Ontario.
Suddenly, perhaps 10 or 15 years ago, I realized I didn't look forward to driving, especially on the highways, because it wasn't 'fun' anymore.
Was I too old to enjoy it? Was I too ... jaded? Had I done all of the pleasure driving I wanted to do?
Perhaps my malaise was due to some of those factors, but most of all, it came from witnessing all the dangerous driving habits going on around me!
--- Highway speeding was a big problem; while I'm trying to maintain a speed of 100 km, even on a divided highway, and being passed by drivers doing 120 km, OR FASTER, was not my idea a pleasure trip.
--- Getting cut off at those speeds, by a lane changer who does not believe in using a signal, was also a problem.
--- Tailgating, either on the highway, or on our street, continues to vex me.
Apart from those factors, other dangerous driving behaviors have arisen, mainly due to the emergence of traffic roundabouts throughout Nova Scotia.
Some roundabouts appear to increase the efficient flow of traffic, but their number and placement is a bit suspect to me.
Rant alert! Rant alert! I call them, 'affectations,' simply fashionable items.

The rationale seems to go something like this: 'Let's build one of these in as many places as we can, while the public is on our side, and there's enough money in the highway budget to do it.')
The major driving rule in a roundabout (as I have heard it said!) is: the vehicle already in the roundabout has the right-of-way.
Most drivers are aware of, and follow that rule.
I'm told that the British, who have had traffic roundabouts for generations, use them efficiently, with no difficulty.
But other knuckleheads behave as if yielding the right-of-way is a threat to their human survival, and certainly a heavy blow to their schedule!
Even in my extended residential neighborhood (where we find THREE, count 'em, three of these merry-go-rounds!) I have been cut off by other vehicles entering at a high rate of speed while I was in the circle.
Why does this happen?
How can we fix it?
I certainly see a need for more driver education, as many roundabouts were built without any public information campaign on how to drive in them.
Most of all, many drivers today are in too much of a hurry, all of the time.
Until more of us, Dear Reader, learn to slow down and share the road and the driving experience, 'getting there' is going to be tough, and a lot less fun.