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#12
05-28-2005, 11:22 PM
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Re: State-by-state scores on driving test
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35. Mississippi -- 82.5 [/ QUOTE ] 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 [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] 
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#14
05-29-2005, 01:06 AM
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Re: State-by-state scores on driving test
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.
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#15
05-29-2005, 03:11 AM
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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."???
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#16
05-29-2005, 03:15 AM
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Re: State-by-state scores on driving test
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.
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#17
05-29-2005, 03:16 AM
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Re: State-by-state scores on driving test
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.
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05-29-2005, 03:19 AM
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Re: State-by-state scores on driving test
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25. Tennessee -- 83.4 26. Maine -- 83.2 [/ QUOTE ] 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?
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