Blue states have dumbest drivers

[monkey neck]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/AUTOS/05/26/drivers_study/index.html

Just stirrin' up some shiznit. ;)

[chuxxter]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/AUTOS/05/26/drivers_study/index.html

Just stirrin' up some shiznit. ;)
Is this some kind of surprise? Let's see: NYC taxi drivers, NJ drivers in general, Massholes from Massachusetts... Yeah I can see this. I drive with a lot of these morons every day; most got their licenses from CrackerJack boxes.

[monkey neck]

That must be why these states have some of the highest auto insurance rates in the country. I write auto insurance for New Jersey and the rates there are horrible. I used to write for New York,too, and it was pretty bad there too (at least around NYC). I don't know how people afford anything out there.

[aqualou]

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

must be easier to drive when there aren't many roads :p

[jcarwash31]

I'm glad to see Minnesota (blue state) near the top. I think there is a larger percentage of people who know the rules but just ignore them. Is there any way to get the people who would fail these tests of the road?

[jcarwash31]

9. Montana -- 86.2


must be easier to drive when there aren't many roads :p
I'm not even sure if Montana has traffic laws?

[Fernie]

I'm not even sure if Montana has traffic laws?

They do, but I think it only involves restitution to a rancher for hitting a sheep.

[jcarwash31]

They do, but I think it only involves restitution to a rancher for hitting a sheep.
I could see how they would miss that on the test.

[Patas]

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

must be easier to drive when there aren't many roads :p
Haha yeah. They must've forgotten to test people in Florida because they surely would've been the worst. Or maybe Florida's age demographic doesn't fit the test.

[rocketman70]

I live in Illinois (blue state) and yeah, the drivers here are pretty stupid, particularly in the state er City of Chicago. :D

Wisconsin on the other hand (blue state and it's at the top of the list) has the slooooowest drivers I've ever encountered. Yep, trying to start to crap up with the Cheeseheads on here. ;) :p

[jcarwash31]

Haha yeah. They must've forgotten to test people in Florida because they surely would've been the worst. Or maybe Florida's age demographic doesn't fit the test.
Florida was 41 of 48 states (Hawaii and Alaska excluded) and D.C. at 81.1%.

[jcarwash31]

I live in Illinois (blue state) and yeah, the drivers here are pretty stupid, particularly in the state er City of Chicago. :D

Wisconsin on the other hand (blue state and it's at the top of the list) has the slooooowest drivers I've ever encountered. Yep, trying to start to crap up with the Cheeseheads on here. ;) :p
I think Wisconsin went red last election.

[rocketman70]

I think Wisconsin went red last election.

Nope, they went blue. Barely.

[jcarwash31]

You're right. I just remember being mad at Wisconsin. Bush must have been leading for a while there.

[Homsar]

According to the study, many drivers find basic practices, such as merging and interpreting road signs, difficult.

Yeah, those arrows sure are tough to figure out.
What does this mean?
http://www.bear-left.com/bleft2.jpg

[SteveinNYC]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/AUTOS/05/26/drivers_study/index.html

Just stirrin' up some shiznit. ;)

In the interest of shiznit-stirring - I would rather live in a state of stupid blue-state drivers than a state of stupid red-state voters.
;)

[tobedawg]

reminds me of this article that was in my morning paper...

Damn SUV Driving tourists!

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/27/MNG9UCVOCF1.DTL

[ICONOCLAST420]

Massholes from Massachusetts
LMMFAO! I drove in Boston and lived to tell about it.

I drive 150 miles every day in my job, the worst drivers are the ones with the Bush stickers on their Lexus RX300s, mostly because they are on their cell phones.

[SteveinNYC]

I had my only traffic accident in MA...trying to merge into traffic from one of those god-awfully short merge lanes. Grrr...

What isn't being said is that the Northeast was the first area of the country to actually have settlers, and therefore the first to have roads - roads which were designed long before cars were even a twinkle in Henry Ford's eye (clearly). What developed is the hopeless tangle of roads and highways which were built on top of one another as the population grew.

All areas west of us benefitted from our early mistakes.

[monkey neck]

I drive 150 miles every day in my job, the worst drivers are the ones with the Bush stickers on their Lexus RX300s, mostly because they are on their cell phones.

I saw a guy about cause an accident twice yesterday that had one of those "Village in Texas missing their idiot" stickers in his window. It's all your perspective. Of course, I did have to honk at a W-stickered car a few months ago. Frankly, dumb drivers are everywhere and they cross all party lines.

...which brings up another gripe I have...Why is it that people that drive SUV'S, trucks, and vans, never drive with their lights on when it's raining or foggy or dawn/dusk? I think the idiots drift toward the bigger vehicles. Not that all people that drive these vehicles are idiots, it's just the idiots drive them.

[markalot]

I don't need to turn on my lights, I can see fine! :p

[aqualou]

What does this mean?
http://www.bear-left.com/bleft2.jpg
Get bent! :p

[akip]

Florida was 41 of 48 states (Hawaii and Alaska excluded) and D.C. at 81.1%.

miami has the worst drivers i've ever seen. and i've lived in nyc and boston.

[eighty]

I didn't have to take a written test to get my license, Michigan policy is now that kids take "Driver's Ed 2" (read: more car/train crash movies) instead of the test. How far away are you sposed to park from the tracks...12 feet?

Michigan drivers scored 0.5 less than Ohio drivers, so no more griping about how bad we are. :p I guess you'll just have to gripe about the noisiness of the highways, an old coworker of mine said Michigan roads were "paved in rumblestrips". He's got me there.

[ICONOCLAST420]

What isn't being said is that the Northeast was the first area of the country to actually have settlers, and therefore the first to have roads - roads which were designed long before cars were even a twinkle in Henry Ford's eye (clearly). What developed is the hopeless tangle of roads and highways which were built on top of one another as the population grew.The worst things they have in New England are the rotaries, or traffic circles (of death). If you ever drive through Augusta, Maine there are two (one right after the other) on ST RT. 3/9, the one in Kittery is bad too.

[akip]

The worst things they have in New England are the rotaries, or traffic circles (of death). If you ever drive through Augusta, Maine there are two (one right after the other) on ST RT. 3/9, the one in Kittery is bad too.

i learned to drive in springfield, mass, and i'll never forget the thrill of hitting the gas as you fly around one of those things. honk! honk!

they've got em in tijuana, mexico and talk about playing chicken.

[seafoamgreen]

I went back to New Jersey a couple years ago and found that alot of the traffic circles are being removed, which is great, since i use them as landmarks. Oddly enough, there are random circles in northern ohio. Like in Litchfield, which is an hour away from Cleveland. Just driving around country roads and all of a sudden there's a traffic circle. Random.