Posted on 05/16/2006 1:30:06 PM PDT by King of Florida
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Stressed Miami drivers speed, tailgate and cut off other drivers so frequently that it has earned the city the title of worst road rage in a survey released Tuesday.
Norwalk, Conn.-based AutoVantage, an automobile membership club offering travel services and roadside assistance, also listed Phoenix, New York, Los Angeles and Boston among the top five cities for rude driving in its first "In the Driver's Seat Road Rage Survey."
"The advent of road rage is part of every day life," said Todd Smith, director of corporate communications for AutoVantage's parent company, Affinion Group, which has offices in Nashville. "It's just a fact of life."
On the other side of the spectrum, Minneapolis, Nashville, St. Louis, Seattle and Atlanta rated as the cities with the most courteous drivers who were less likely to change lanes without signaling or swear at other motorists.
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if i were a cop, id pull people over for not signaling. i know its petty but it drives me insane.
Bah! We have had two freeway shootings so far this week in Southern California and it's only Tuesday.
yeah, $50,000 car, turn signals optional...
LOL, that's true! But that's BelleMeade.
In the 80's when I came here, nobody let you in on the interstate. And back then we had a lot more tourist traffic, you'd have thought the residents would have been more considerate of visitors. Now it seems rare that people won't let you in.
New Jersey drivers know that the fastest way to get from one point to another is a straight line - And everything preventing you form going in a straight line, includingg traffic lights, is involved in a conspiracy to slow you down.
Ditto that. I've lived in a lot of states and Mass. drivers are BY FAR the worst and the rudest!
The company will now set out to do education outreach in the most rude cities. Where would you rather go? Miami or Minneapolis?
Honk... honk... HONK...
I lived in the Minneapolis area for a year and a half. Saw the rudest driving I've ever seen there. And a lot of bad behavior in parking lots around Seattle. Typical worthless study.
How'd they miss Detroit?
"Maybe all of those Liberals in Minneapolis just can't get up enough speed in their Prius' and Civics to be aggressive"
Nah,but the 400 pounds of sand in the trunk does slow us down.;)
Drivers in NYC are actually pretty good. The problem is that there are a lot of us and even if we are all curtious and all follow the rules of the road, there are going to be lots of problems. Keep in mind that the entire population of the Miami Metro area is only about 15% of the population of the NYC Metro area.
I don't think it's so much illegals as just plain immigrants, legal or no, from Latin America. I've driven in Bogotá and Caracas, and you can see that insane style of driving has crept into the culture here in Miami.
Atlanta's drivers would take issue with that.
I feel so helpless driving the highways of MN with anything less than 285hp and rear wheel drive. ;o
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