State-by-state scores on driving test

[Uglyowl]

State-by-state scores on driving test

These are the average scores for each state on the GMAC Insurance National Driver's Test.
May 27, 2005: 11:17 AM EDT

New York (CNN/Money) - These are the average scores on a 20-question driver's test administered to more than 5,000 licensed drivers in a survey commissioned by the GMAC Insurance.

Nation -- 82.7

1. Oregon -- 89.4

2. Washington -- 88.4

3. Iowa -- 87.7

4. Idaho -- 87.5

5. Wyoming -- 87.4

6. Vermont -- 86.6

7. Nebraska -- 86.5

8. Wisconsin -- 86.3

9. Montana -- 86.2

10. West Virginia -- 86.2

11. Minnesota -- 86.1

12. North Dakota -- 85.6

13. North Carolina -- 85.2

14. Indiana -- 85.1

15. Alabama -- 84.7

15. Virginia -- 84.7

15. Nevada -- 84.7

16 Missouri -- 84.7

19. Ohio -- 84.3

19. South Dakota -- 84.3

21. Colorado -- 84.2

22. Kansas -- 84.0

23. Michigan -- 83.8

24. New Hampshire -- 83.7

25. Tennessee -- 83.4

26. Maine -- 83.2

27. Arkansas -- 83.1

27. South Carolina -- 83.1

29. Georgia -- 82.9

29. New Mexico -- 82.9

31. Oklahoma -- 82.8

32. Texas -- 82.7

33. Utah -- 82.6

33. Arizona -- 82.6

35. Mississippi -- 82.5

35. Delaware -- 82.5

35. Kentucky -- 82.5

38. Pennsylvania -- 82.1

39. Louisiana -- 81.7

40. Illinois -- 81.6

41. Florida -- 81.1

42. Connecticut -- 80.9

43. California -- 80.4

44. Maryland -- 79.8

44. Washington, D.C, -- 79.8

44. New York -- 79.8

47. New Jersey -- 78.3

48. Massachusetts -- 77.2

49. Rhode Island -- 77.0

[Dr. Strangelove]

Just one more reason Oregon+Washington pwnate New York.

[JoeU]

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42. Connecticut -- 80.9
44. New York -- 79.8

47. New Jersey -- 78.3

48. Massachusetts -- 77.2

49. Rhode Island -- 77.0

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Looks right from here. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

Joe

[InchoateHand]

Michigan has worse drivers than anywhere on the East Coast, hands down.

And people in Washington/Oregon are boring, as clearly evidenced by this report.

[a500lbgorilla]

They all look pretty good except those under 80.

[fluxrad]

I would just like to point out that California and Texas both scored really low. You can't look at the Colorado score without factoring that in /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[contentless]

MA is second worst, but I'm an optimist - they're only 4th worst if you put Alaska and Hawaii at the bottom. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[goofball]

Yes. Oregon/Washington is very very boring and dull. I would highly reccomend no new yorkers move there.

[Jurollo]

Maybe this is why we have the seatbelt law.
~Justin

[Eihli]

I didn't help LA out with my score of 75 /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[beckham9]

yeah stay away from oregon, we like it the way it is

[Talk2BigSteve]

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35. Mississippi -- 82.5

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How the hell did Mississippi get a passing grade??? I live here and people drive like absolute [censored] here!

Examples include:

Making a complete stop in the road before turning RIGHT!

Waving people through a 4-way stop ahead of them because they don't know who the hell has the right of way.

Accelerating only to make a complete stop in the Merge lane before easing out on to the interstate.

And much much more.

My favorite thing about Mississippi is that if your car is 25 years old or older you qualify for an antique car tag (License Plate for the Yankees, I use to be one, and miss it, so don't flame) that that you NEVER have to renew. This is regardless of the car's condition, so there are tons of busted up pieces of [censored] driving down the Highways and Biways of Mississippi. So watch the [censored] out!!!

Big Steve /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[fingokra]

you know those roads go both ways, you can always go back north, yankee

[kyro]

It's funny, any time I'm on the turnpike (I'm from New Hampshire) and some idiot cuts me off or does something stupid in their car, i think to myself "probably from Mass", and I'm usually right.

[youtalkfunny]

They call 'em "Mass-holes" in Florida. Yeah, FLORIDA. That's quite a wide swath your reputation has cut.

Those written driving tests are a joke. When I moved to Nevada, I had to take a written test. Almost none of it was about driving. 80% of the test consisted of questions such as, "How many drinks can a 200-pound man consume in one hour before reaching the legal limit of BAC?"

If you're not a 200-pound man (I'm not), or if you don't drink (I don't--well, almost never), then why on earth should you be expected to know this?

Another written question: You should dim your "brights", or "high beam", when an approaching car is how close?

A. 200 feet
B. 300 feet
C. 500 feet
D. 1000 feet

Just plain silly. Can I write in, "E. I dim them whenever I see oncoming headlights."???

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

These tests are pretty lame. California's test has some very ambiguous questions where an argument can be made for any number of answers. It ends up being as much a test on testtaking as it is a test on driving knowledge. Just figure out what they're trying to get at and go with that.

[[censored]]

So I am visiting a friend in Boston and right from day 1, I start freaking out because this maniac and others seemingly risk their lives every trip to shave off an extra 30 seconds. I can see my reaction is justifed.

[censored] Oregon resident.

[pryor15]

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25. Tennessee -- 83.4

26. Maine -- 83.2

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i've lived in both states. there's absolutely no way TN is higher than ME. my experiences of driving in TN was a constant state of being terrified of getting blindsided. ME was just looking out for ice in the winter and making sure you don't hit a deer on a back road.

or could it be, i wonder, that driving in Maine is mostly on back roads and very little highway driving and maybe that's something the test doesn't factor in?