NE Drivers = Retahds

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Finally, a study that alleges what I always suspected after riding along with more than a few Beantownahs & New Yawkers.

Read --> http://www.cnn.com/2005/AUTOS/05/26/...udy/index.html

[Pinner]

NY and Boston drivers may be aggressive, but UT and OK drivers are hands-down, no argument the worst in the country.

I'd rather face off with an illegal Somali cab driver in Boston than a Provo soccer mom any day.

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Considering the number of NE'ern migrants to Utah, dude, you might be right.

[Tuckerman]

I always know that I am home when ppl start honking at me for things like; going too slow thru a toll, not going the split sec. the light turns green, or driving too slow in the slow lane. Love it, at least I am not getting shot at.

[KevinDineen]

Herein lies the problem:

"The state of Rhode Island leads the nation in driver cluelessness, according to the survey. The average test score there was 77, just eight points above a failing grade."

Having spent a few years in Vrodisland, this is unquestionable true. The little state is bringing down the average for the rest of the region. The ocean state thinks turn signals are holiday decorations. (And to think, 15 years ago insurance was optional there.)

New Yorkers drive by their own rules, so therefore should be exempt from this study. One rule applies in NYC. If you can make it, go... NOW!

[365wp]

I missed Boston driving when I lived in Boulder...passing isn't as much fun when you're not passing on the right in vacant parking spaces.

[Obstruction]

Motto on NH license plate: Live Free or Die

Motto ought to be on MA license plate: Get out of my way or I'll fuck you up

We have a discourteous kill or be killed attitude on the road ways but for sheer out and out clulessness on the highway don't no body hold a candle to the residents of the Sunshine State. Driving in Florida always jacks my blood pressure up a good 30 points.

[gonzo]

i love driving like an asshole in IL with my MA plates. spreading the love, via excessive honking and agressive lane tactics.

[Pinner]

I've had almost as much fun barreling around NYC in my 4x4 pickup as I have on dirt roads in Utah.

The similarites are that you go as fast as you can given the road conditions and utilize all available space while simultaneously attempting to avoid potential hazards and maximize torque, stopping only when absolutely necessary.

You should see New Yorkers jump when they see Colorado plates and an obviously well-used brush guard approaching at high velocity.

[sea2ski]

Keep driving till you hear glass and feel metal.

Pinner, I suggest you go for my personal record of most blocks without having to stop at a red light next time you visit. 78th to St. Marks Place.

[Pinner]

I did it years ago in my 1979 Gremlin from Hudson St to the GWB, stopping only twice.

(A few of those lights were red though, so I guess depending on whose measure you use, I was either cheating or I get bonus points.)

[TELEB]

when i drive into boston with my truck, i'm a beast in it. it'll be worst when i get my diesel truck. it's actually pretty fun driving in boston, cutting people off,edging them out, and of course giving the finger.

[mr_gyptian]

NY and Boston drivers may be aggressive, but UT and OK drivers are hands-down, no argument the worst in the country.

I'd rather face off with an illegal Somali cab driver in Boston than a Provo soccer mom any day.

Iowa drivers are harrible. they menace summit county. but the soccer mom in the late 90s mini van is not to be trifled with.

[Nobody Famous]

I've had almost as much fun barreling around NYC in my 4x4 pickup as I have on dirt roads in Utah.
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You should see New Yorkers jump when they see Colorado plates and an obviously well-used brush guard approaching at high velocity.

That's funny. I wonder if it works with Pee-Aye plates on a truck, too.

[Nobody Famous]

Finally, a study that alleges what I always suspected after riding along with more than a few Beantownahs & New Yawkers.

Read --> http://www.cnn.com/2005/AUTOS/05/26/...udy/index.html

Does this study address obnoxiousness, of which new joy-zee drivers (typically in beemers or lexuses, often-times with save the animals or save the lighthouses plates) are the clear winners?

This January, some 30-ish numb-nuts in a bmw was following me up a snow-covered five-mile-long mountain road, rear wheels sliding all over both lanes, while this idiot was using an electirc razor to shave. I was in a pickup truck, and was afraid he was going to crash into my rear bumper. This was in a line of traffic. At the end of a day of skiing, I noticed he parked in a section of the parking lot (where it clearly said no parking) in an area where the the snow had melted and re-frozen again as solid ice, and he was stuck at a donwhill angle, wheels spinning furiously, trying to get out.

[iceman]

Pinner, I suggest you go for my personal record of most blocks without having to stop at a red light next time you visit. 78th to St. Marks Place.

2 AM, August weeknight:

96th street to the Battery, lights turning green the whole way as we approached.

We weren't going to the Battery, but we couldn't stop.

It was amazing.

[Elin]

As much as driving in Jersey totally sucks (I got cut off on 78 today so tightly, doing 75, that I had to hit the brakes so hard that the anti locks came on... and seeing how the Yukons aren't big on stopping it made it even worse)... driving through coney island etc to long island sucks SO MUCH harder. I would have to assume that NE driving is the worst, just because I can't imagine anything worse. I thought I would get a break when I moved to Utah next year, but from what you all are saying it doesn't sound like it. At least I've got some nice aggressive skills

[Plakespear]

There are 11 states with worse drivers than PA? I don't believe it.

[biggins]

S. New England drivers...

want to kill you. Its a contant rage call behind the wheel in these parts.

South Coast (MA and RI) is like death race 2005--> incessant rage callin' + increased number of drunk elderly = 7 weeks in the hospital.

[powder11]

i love driving like an asshole in IL with my MA plates. spreading the love, via excessive honking and agressive lane tactics.

ditto in vancouver. I cut off an entire left turning lane of at least ten cars by zipping down the right lane and making the left turn a little wider to the tune of multiple horns and one guy shaking his fist out the window. why wait like a jerk?

[Benny Profane]