What Area Has The Worst Drivers?

[Isura]

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Asia

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I'm from Sri Lanka, probably the worst drivers in the world. As a side note, at one point in the 80's, the country decided to remove and ban seatbelts from all new cars (they were later reinstated).

[Michael Davis]

I don't know how you judge "worst," but if you are talking about some sort of skill level, people who live in large metropolitan areas are almost assuredly better drivers as a group than rural folk, unless NASCAR is evidence.

-Michael

[Yobz]

What state has the highest female:male ratio?

[imported_stealthcow]

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In my experience - Boston, the worst you can imagine.

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I watched some kickass show on Discovery not too long ago about them re-doing Boston's highways and how they made a new route to the airport and built underground highways. Really cool show...

Is traffic still really bad there even after all that?

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the big dig. it doesn't make the drivers any better. but its cool, and makes some things easier. unforuantely its really late, way over budget, and still doesn't make everything great

stealthcow-

[ripdog]

I drove from Phoenix to Nogales and back in one day a few years ago. It didn't matter how much traffic there was or how fast we were going, someone was always plastered to my bumper. There were accidents every few miles at the mid way point on the return trip. I actually started to cheer when I saw them. People who drive this poorly deserve to have their cars wrecked and insurance premiums raised. Drivers in Washington suck, but for different reasons. I think a better question would be "Where do you hate to drive the most?". AZ wins it hands down for me.

[IggyWH]

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What state has the highest female:male ratio?

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I wish I could answer that, but even if I could, I wouldn't want to feed the fish...

[gorie]

for some reason the "area" follows me where i go...

[Blarg]

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I don't know how you judge "worst," but if you are talking about some sort of skill level, people who live in large metropolitan areas are almost assuredly better drivers as a group than rural folk, unless NASCAR is evidence.

-Michael

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I think you can guarantee that they will THINK they are.

People in L.A. are always talking about what great drivers they are, including the ones who get in accidents several times a year. In L.A., people's perception of how good drivers they are seems totally disconnected from their actual skill.

They never use turn signals, if they do check to see if things are clear, it's very often rear view or side mirror only and never a check with the head to the blind spot.

Consistent as a swiss watch, they park in the middle of intersections so traffic can't get through.

They put on make-up and talk on cell phones like crazy, swerving and slowing and speeding up in random patterns as they do. I've seen so many people crash into cars stopped at stop signs or just parked cars on the street that I can't even count them anymore - including crashing into mine.

I've seen so many people change from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde as soon as they get in their cars, screaming at people and shaking their fists, honking, vengefully tailgating and passing, etc. It's like a lot of people just get completely psychotic in their cars and I can't understand why.

L.A. has an incredibly high accident rate, and it's not just because there are lots of cars. There must be something in the water or something, because I constantly see people walking across the street without looking either, and stopping at the top of escalators to look around, when there are 20 people on the escalator behind them. They do that with elevators too.

I don't know what the hell is happening to this part of the planet, but it's like some crazed backwards eugenics program has been systematically eliminating the people fit for survival or something.

[ucfryan]

I encounter people from Georgia here in Florida all of the time, they are hands down the worst drivers I've ever seen.

[sfer]

Duh. The correct answer is Asia.