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Best and worst drivers, by state
Purple_Pills
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I have been to 49 states, visiting most multiple times. It is pretty obvious which state’s drivers are the best and worst, as both clearly differentiate each other from the rest.
Best: Vermont. They drive fast, never camp in passing lane, and keep in the furthest lane to right unless passing.
Worst: Massachusetts. They are aggressive, but drive slow, and always clog the passing lanes.
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I just completed driving to the central California coast and back, equal parts I-5 and 101, both ways. I don’t think I dropped a single f-bomb the entire trip. The worst drivers I’ve ever encountered are in Kitsap county, hands down…FUCK!!!
I haven’t been to your best & worst but for the worst drivers are in Wisconsin. They love doing 73 in a 70 in the passing lane.
I think the worst drivers are right here in Worshington. Cali drivers got places to go and things to see and don't fuck around
Lived in LA for a long time and will easily take the fast crazy driving over what I came back to in Washington. Constantly slow drives penning you in on the freeway and people going 41 in a 50 on highways. Then those same people go 41 through a 25. I don't get it.
Kitsap drivers are the worst at accelerating onto the highway. We're talking 35 - 40 mph until the point of having to actually merge on. I have let the Camaro rip past many of them getting onto Highway 16.
New York are the worst. I just ended up being aggressive too. There's really no other choice. Arizona drivers are retards. 60% of people are transplants. There are the maniacs who cut in and out of traffic, and the 78 year olds who should have had their licenses suspended years ago.
Warshington drivers are actually pretty good.
Texass and California drivers are extremely aggressive, at least on I 10. They think 85 is slow. Central Coast drivers are more chill, I agree, but that's like SB, Lompoc, Santa Maria, SLO..not much of the population.
We have discussed this before. Driftless area Wisconsin are fine. The rest suck, are slow, drunk, but at least they are all stuck in the fast lane going slow so you can pass them quickly in the right lanes. It’s backwards, but works.
Massholes purposely clog the passing lanes and slow lanes simultaneously on two lane highways from Acadia all the way to the interstate. I flipped the bird twice yesterday. First time in many years. Those drivers are worse than Subaru Outback drivers in the PNW x 1,000.
My problem with Wisconsin drivers was them doing 71 in the left land going around a car in the right lane going 70. There was never an option to pass them on the right.
I-5 coming into Snohomish then King county are the worst. Any time of day it is a crawl. my wife gets pissed because I always make the comment “someone better have been killed in an accident to cause this mess"
and it is just as bad heading back north…
Honorable mention to Idaho drivers who cut off cars merging onto I90
Either slow the fuck down, speed the fuck up or move the fuck over.
Theres no such thing as a block/charge call on the freeway.
The Pacific Northwest drivers that stop to let you go even when they have the right of way, clearly, obviously, then when you stay stopped and stare at them because they need to fucking go and they just keep staring back at you smiling like "Here's my good deed for the day!!!"
Then they can finally see you screaming at them to fucking go and they give you this look like you're the one being an asshole and holding up traffic.
Feels like the worst are places with lots of transplants because its a ton of people and different driving styles. And since they are all warm weather places you have the retired olds doing god knows what on the roads.
In Portland we have Gay and Retarded with nothing in-between.
With cops that are clearly told to ticket 5-10+ over speeders but then do nothing about all the olds, all the druggies, and all the dipfucks that are a danger on the road, camp in the left lane, don't out on their turn signal, can't shit or get off the pot in roundabouts, etc.
I get flipped off a lot. Not because I'm slow, but mostly because I feel a lot of the speed limits are archaic and I just go at speeds I'm comfortable doing. Last night leaving Mariners game I just cruised down in the right lanes passing so many cars driving slow in the left lanes. Washington has a lot of people who think they are left lane drivers and they are not. The number of carpools who drive slow in the left lane, when the carpool lane is virtually empty, might be my most infuriating follow.
North of Seattle / Snohomish is much worse than South King / Pierce. After the completion of the Tacoma I-5 project sitting in horrible traffic in Tacoma is rare, and usually due to an accident. Fucking Snohomish drivers feel the need to slow down at Northgate, county line / 220th. 405 to 128th, and then Boeing freeway all the way to fucking Marysville. South King does have the benefit of having 167 lighten the load, and don't get me started on the retards driving to Bonney Lake. Congestion on city / side streets is also worse in Snohomish. The planners were like, "Fuck multiple east west roads! You will only have 128th and 164th, and you'll pay premium for it."
Lastly people here are afraid of hills and crests. Ship Canal Bridge, Kennydale Hill, the climb to Burien going south. Push down on the accelerator a bit more and maintain that speed.
Biggest Left Lane Offenders:
Old Asians - someone taught them the left lane is where they can drive.
Old Married couples - tend to see this at night.
Single White Women - mostly because they are on their phone.
Uber / Lyft drivers between Seatac and Downtown Seattle
My work servicing glory holes gets me around the area a lot.
My least favorite is hitting a traffic jam and discovering it's from someone getting pulled over for a chicken shit speeding ticket or just because a cop is sitting there. We already have traffic problems and you're making them worse?
The hills thing is a problem. I noticed that in LA there were specific spots traffic on freeways always got even worse at hills even when it wasn't crowded and I think it's people are so tuned out they don't realize they need to accelerate.
Also just have some fucking awareness when you're stacking up with other drivers and people have no way to get around you.
Fat white chicks were multiple offenders on being camped out in the left lane on my most recent road trip.