[Paraclete]

and the worst are 19 year old girls.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Driving in public needs to be banned and it needs to be tightly regulated on private property.

[darkwing104]

Orange alert: American drivers are demented, speed-crazed, food-swilling, cellphone-gabbing, lane-jumping, road-raging sociopaths.

Sounds likes the people I have to work with....:-)

[Pyrion]

Changing lanes is so much easier when you have a bullhorn in your possession. ;)

[RightWhale]

While it won't help much when hitting the wall in turn 3 at 220 mph, the greatest next improvement in automobile safety would come from wearing helmets. Trendy, style-conscious Americans harumpf and scoff, but it's true. The semi-harnesses help a lot, but your noggin is still free to impact various hard surfaces. Most of us would prefer unobtrusive bicycle helmets if forced to choose, but imagine how awesome you will be in your big-wheel 4X4 Silverado 454 with a full-face helmet in matching trim.

[Huck]

the road-death rate remains constant at 1.51 deaths per hundred million miles driven.

This stat isn't very helpful, or is it just me? To give it any sense of proportion, wouldn't we want to know how many drivers drove those miles, or how many total miles were driven? It just seems like a weird stat.

[babyface00]

If there was one thing, IMHO, that would bring traffic accidents down, it would be if more Americans could grasp the concept of yielding to other traffic which has the right of way and, the corollary, not "being nice" when you have the right of way if there is other traffic behind you.

Freeway entrance ramps, passing lanes, stop signs are all examples I see daily of violations of this simple principle, which is largely the cause of traffic congestion and accidents.

Just my 2 cents...

[RRWCC]

I think we should classify auto into categories.
1) The assault vehicle. Two or more of the following:
a. Chrome wheels
b. Wide Tires
c. 17” or maybe even the dreaded 19” wheels
d. Holds over 10 gallons of gas.
e. More than 1 tailpipe
f. Over 4 cylinders

2) The sawed off vehicle: Shorter than 100” Wheel Base.
3) The high capacity vehicle: Holds more than 5 passengers.
4) The high power vehicle: More than 150 horsepower.