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Whoo! Take that perpetuaters of the negative Rhode Island driver stereotype!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070515/ap_ ... /road_rage

I don't see Alaska on that list either... but it might have something to do with the fact that during our worst traffic jams, it's far to cold to roll down the window to yell at the person next to us. flipping the bird is as violent as we can get.

Hey, St. Louis is only #22. I knew there were fewer road-asses here than Cleveland (where I moved from - #19).

What's odd is that Cincinnati drivers are way friendlier than Cleveland drivers, and yet they're #18.

Road rage wouldn't exist if people actually drove the speed limit, stayed the hell out of the passing lane if they choose to drive 20 under the limit like an inconsiderate jerk and used their turn signals. Drivers Ed is taught at a 3rd grade level and I see an endless sea of complacent morons everywhere I go driving at the mental capacity of a 1st grader.

i've found australian drivers to be on the INSANE degree.
nothing like seeing a tourist do a U-Turn across both lanes INFRONT of a roundabout (not at the roundabout itself, but one of the streets going into it)

At least in devonport, the male drivers are the more polite, whereas the females are more likely to run your ass over in their mortgage-bought SUV's.

Well there's a difference between road rage and bad driving. I don't really know any Alaskans but so far everyone here seems to be pretty nice, even if they do all think that they're stunt drivers.

For truly crazed driving, go to Spain. Breakneck speeds down narrow streets lined with cars that people routinely fold in the side-mirrors on because they've learned the hard way, plus your regular european random squiggly one way streets, makes for an interesting experience. Travel guides actually recommend not renting a car in Spain for this very reason.

Driving in Malta is scary. Basically, yes we have rules of the road and crap, but half of the island is to Malta as rednecks are to the US, and basically its a game of bumper-cars with them. I remember on the same night I walked home, I saw one car that piled into a streetlight, one over a bridge, and one that slammed into one of those busses for handicapped people, and flipped it.

(I know I paint a very negative picture of the place, its REALLY not THAT bad though. Who wants to visit? )

Thailand is pretty crazy.

Hah I remember Thailand, we had the best bus-driver ever. Guy was batshit-loco. And the Tuk Tuks, only thing keeping them from taking over the planet is that they're not amphibious.

i'm surprising lexington isn't on there, people are terrible here.

Here it's mostly us locals who get pissed off. Tourists drive ten miles an hour everywhere, taking in all the exciting Branson scenery. And it's impossible not to get behind them, and watch them point out EVERY SINGLE TREE, and EVERY SINGLE THEATRE, and slow down to five miles an hour because they're not used to our perfectly natural curvy roads.

Tourists....grrrrrr.

Haha, Miami IS by far the worst. During the time I've lived there I've seen people pull GUNS on each other, while speeding on a busy freeway!
And don't get me started on the old people. Lord have mercy. They forget that one-way means NOT THAT WAY! Oh, if you get 3 of them on the interstate, they can't read the speed limit sign, so they all drive 40. It's like a rolling barricade.

Killbert-Robby wrote:Driving in Malta is scary. Basically, yes we have rules of the road and crap, but half of the island is to Malta as rednecks are to the US, and basically its a game of bumper-cars with them. I remember on the same night I walked home, I saw one car that piled into a streetlight, one over a bridge, and one that slammed into one of those busses for handicapped people, and flipped it.

(I know I paint a very negative picture of the place, its REALLY not THAT bad though. Who wants to visit? )

I've visited... and I shudder from the reminder!

As far as I learned...

a) Malta has (had) 8 traffic lights on the entire island... and about the same number of people who know how they work
b) Flashers on a car is just something taking up space (sitting in a restaurant and waiting for food, I actually spend some time counting the number of cars using the flashers when doing a left-turn outside... about 2 out of 10 did)
c) Safety is using the horn when you overtake another car up the mountain side (blocking the entire road) while rounding a corner without knowing whats coming against you... to warn whoever comes around the corner in the opposite direction.

That was 10 years ago though... it might be worse now

Sorry Malta!

Killbert-Robby wrote:Hah I remember Thailand, we had the best bus-driver ever. Guy was batshit-loco. And the Tuk Tuks, only thing keeping them from taking over the planet is that they're not amphibious.

Did you get to ride in one? Because they're pretty awesome.

My dad grew up there, but has been living here for over 20 years. When we went back for vacation, he was like, "Wow, nothing's changed." He said he could never drive there anymore. Even New York looks tame compared to that nonsense.

chaoticcomics wrote:...And don't get me started on the old people. Lord have mercy. They forget that one-way means NOT THAT WAY! Oh, if you get 3 of them on the interstate, they can't read the speed limit sign, so they all drive 40. It's like a rolling barricade.

That would drive me freakin' crazy! All it takes is one person to fuck things up, let alone 3 blocking up the highway.

strangely enough I don't remember seeing all the crazy of driving in LA.. I mean how can it be when your stuck in traffic most of the time?

phactorri wrote:strangely enough I don't remember seeing all the crazy of driving in LA.. I mean how can it be when your stuck in traffic most of the time?

I experienced that driving in LA, as well as driving in bumper-to-bumper traffic at 60 mph. I learned to drive a lot more aggresively in California (which is saying something, coming from someone from Massachusetts).

Hogan wrote:I've visited... and I shudder from the reminder!

As far as I learned...

*notes*

When I first moved here, it was a big deal when the 1st traffic light was installed. I have to say its getting better and better. Not to say we don't have our nuts here. But its really in the backroads where the retards shine. Malta has this thing of building roads that aren't small enough for just one car, but not wide enough for 2. So you have people in back roads spending quarter of an hour yelling to eachother "GO AROUND" "I CANT"

Of course your hillbilly around here has the solution : Go down the road as fast as humanly possible to avoid human contact.

theSuburbanLetdown wrote:Did you get to ride in one? Because they're pretty awesome.

Yeah, it is, its just kind of "Hey, there's an alley that'll take me there quicker! *Screeches across 4 lane road, starts weaving through a market place*

Most memorable part of Thailand? Pat Pong. I was around 9 walking down a road full of stripjoints in the land that doors forgot. On Christmas eve.

If they had a list for STUPIDEST drivers, Indianapolis would be at or near the top, I'm sure.

Ardra wrote:If they had a list for STUPIDEST drivers, Indianapolis would be at or near the top, I'm sure.

Clearly. They do nothing but drive in circles for hundreds of miles all day long.

Ah, a reference to our little Festival of the Drunken Rednecks, occurring later this month. And then in August, we have the NASCAR race, AKA Festival of the Slightly Less Drunken, Yet More Southern Rednecks.

But seriously, drivers in this town are morons. They stop when the lights are green, and go when they're red, and seemingly have no concept of the proper way to change lanes. And then there's Highway 465, which is, ironically, a giant circular loop around the town. Moron Central, as I call it. I avoid it like the plague.

I know I have at least two fellow Indy-ites who post here, maybe they can back me up on this.