Now I know why we hat on other drivers on the Beltway

[REDEEMEDSKIN]

I'm not sure if you all saw this yet, but it is pretty revealing:

One in six drivers would fail driving test if they had to take it today, a GMAC test suggests

...According to GMAC Insurance, 18 percent of respondents failed its National Driving Test in 2007, compared with 9 percent in 2006.

The following state rankings were released for the 2007 GMAC Insurance National Drivers Test:

1. Idaho.

2. Alaska

3. Minnesota

4. Wisconsin

5. Kansas

6. Washington

7. South Dakota

8. Montana

9. Oregon

10. Iowa

11. Nebraska

12. Wyoming

13. Oklahoma

13. Indiana

13. North Carolina

16. New Mexico

17. North Dakota

18. Missouri

19. Delaware

19. Nevada

21.Vermont

22. California

23. Hawaii

24. Texas STILL, DALLAS SUX!!!

25. Maryland

25.Alabama

27. Arkansas

28. Michigan

29. Kentucky

30. Utah

31. Ohio

31.Colorado

33. South Carolina

33.Arizona

33. Florida

36. Maine

37. New Hampshire

37. Mississippi

37. Tennessee

40. Connecticut

41. Virginia

41. Louisiana

43. West Virginia

44. Georgia

45. Illinois

46. Pennsylvania

47. Rhode Island

48. Massachusetts

48. District of Columbia

48. New Jersey

51. New York - WHERE'S A "MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS" PIC WHEN YOU NEED ONE?

(Comments courtesy of TRO)

Read the rest of this eye-opening article here.

The DC Area, as a whole, ranks in the bottom half in the nation. Yikes!!!

Be safe on the roads out there, fellow Hogs.

- TRO

[GSPODS]

51? It must be because of my wife.

[REDEEMEDSKIN]

51? It must be because of my wife.

I was about to say...

New York is alot safer with one less driver on the road, since he's too busy posting on THN.

...unless of course you're posting from the road.

In that case, the #51 ranking stays.

[GSPODS]

51? It must be because of my wife.

I was about to say...

New York is alot safer with one less driver on the road, since he's too busy posting on THN.

...unless of course you're posting from the road.

In that case, the #51 ranking stays.

I assume this information relates to Licensed Drivers, therefore, I am excluded regardless. I have been driving without a state license since 1972. My military license works any place I am likely to go.

[Fios]

Maryland is way too low, I say that empircally

[Chris Luva Luva]

Aint nuthin worse than a Bamma, more specifically clowns in PG.

[KazooSkinsFan]

51? It must be because of my wife.

48 is a crock, Massachusetts is the worst. I've lived in 8 states all over the country the last 15 years and driven over most of the rest. They are NUTS there. In NY if you keep moving and don't do stupid things it's not that bad. Except The City where I refuse to drive except in and out of, but since it's ranking states I assume it's not just Manhattan.

[welch]

- It was an old Washington tradition that whenever a driver did something foolish, you'd say, "Another Virginia driver. Just can't handle the city." And usually, it was some lost soul from Virginia.

- My observed worst drivers are (a) New Jersey drivers: on local streets, they ignore stop signs, and on the highways they weave through traffic, and in both places they live by luck; (b) North Carolina drivers: drive fast, and often seem to do it with their eyes closed. Can't handle rain, or sleet (horrors!) or ice and snow (double horrors!!!!)

- the Beltway scares me more than any other road, and I drove a taxi in NYC. Manhattan really is safe, since traffic is so thick you can't go very fast, but the Beltway has become amazing.

[Hoss]

Have to agree with Kazoo. Massachusetts drivers are the worst.

[BeeGee]

They have roads in Idaho?

[Sir_Monk]

- My observed worst drivers are (a) New Jersey drivers: on local streets, they ignore stop signs, and on the highways they weave through traffic, and in both places they live by luck; (b) North Carolina drivers: drive fast, and often seem to do it with their eyes closed. Can't handle rain, or sleet (horrors!) or ice and snow (double horrors!!!!)

- the Beltway scares me more than any other road, and I drove a taxi in NYC. Manhattan really is safe, since traffic is so thick you can't go very fast, but the Beltway has become amazing.

You sir have not spent enough time in Texas

[everydayAskinsday]

I have to go with Massachusets as well.. I have family there and have gone to visit about once a year for the last 20 years.. they are HORRIBLE drivers.. family members included

[Irn-Bru]

Michigan needs to be way higher on that list.

[welch]

Sir_Monk wrote

You sir have not spent enough time in Texas

I forgot Texas, Sir_Monk. I have spent a considerable amount of time there, since my son and daughter and grandson live in Killeen. However, I'd give he "worst" prize to New Jersey, outside of:

- young returning Soldiers, who have spent their deployment pay on super-fast cars from one of the "I support the troops" [all the way to my bank] car dealers

- aforementioned young Soldiers who seem to believe that, having survived IED's, they can survive a 90mph 90 degree turn from Ft Hood Avenue into Rancier/Ft Hood gate, and must have said something like "oh my" as their car clipped the top of a decorative brick wall and slammed full-speed into an old Abrams tank that serves as a corner-post. Tank might have suffered paint scratches, but I've seen what little remains of the car planted beside a mangled motor-cycle near a bank on-base.

- awesome sight one night as we drove back to Temple on the sate highway. As we neared the left/down ramp to I-<35?>, I noticed traffic scrambling and slowing from 70mph. We got close, and I saw that the problem was a pickup truck in the right lane, zipping down the ramp at about 50 or 55, with a guy standing in the back holding a tree with one hand and the truck cab with the other.

On the whole, though, I've driven more in NJ, so maybe I'm prejudiced that way...

[Deadskins]

That's a list of written test takers, and has nothing to do with the ability to drive. I'd like to see number of accidents per capita. That would be a better indication of driving ability, but even that would be skewed toward higher traffic areas.