May 16, 200620 yr When in Miami, watch where you're bleepin' going Survey: South Florida drivers speed, tailgate, cut others off Tuesday, May 16, 2006; Posted: 1:43 p.m. EDT (17:43 GMT) story.miamitraffic.file.gi.jpg Drivers in Miami, Florida, head north on Interstate 95. YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Travel and Commuting or Create Your Own Manage Alerts | What Is This? (AP) -- Stressed Miami drivers speed, tailgate and cut off other drivers so frequently that the city earned the title of worst road rage in a survey released Tuesday. AutoVantage, an automobile membership club offering travel services and roadside assistance, also listed Phoenix, Arizona; New York; Los Angeles, California; and Boston, Massachusetts, among the top five cities for rude driving. Minneapolis, Minnesota; Nashville, Tennessee; St. Louis, Missouri; Seattle, Washington; and Atlanta, Georgia, were rated as the cities with the most courteous drivers, who were less likely to change lanes without signaling or swear at other motorists. More than 2,000 adult drivers who regularly commute in 20 major metropolitan areas were asked to rate road rage and rude driving in telephone surveys between January and March. The survey conducted by Prince Market Research has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points. Drivers owned up to some rude behavior themselves: Nearly all said they had talked on a cell phone while driving, and 64 percent acknowledged they occasionally drive too fast. Young drivers and people with long commutes were found to be the most likely to react to an aggressive or rude driver. The top reactions included honking the horn, cursing or making an obscene gesture. No distinct differences were found between male and female drivers. "Human behavior is so involved with crashes at all levels," said Elly Martin, a spokeswoman for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. "[Aggressive driving] is a pattern of behavior drivers exhibit over and over." AutoVantage, based in Norwalk, Connecticut, hopes to use the survey to educate people about how to resist road rage. Among its tips are remaining calm and not making eye contact with an angry driver. Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. hahaha... :notworthy :lol :lol :mischief Miami drivers rule lol
May 17, 200620 yr Author im kinda proud in a sick twisted way. :lol thats why I posted it, lol...the f***ing drivers here are sooo god damn timid it pisses me off...and no one honks here :blink: :banghead polite mother fukkers lol
May 17, 200620 yr I love driving in Minneapolis. Everyone is a bunch of p****** and I can pretty much do whatever I want. Yeah, I'm kind of a dick.
May 17, 200620 yr IF AutoVantage wants to somehow make FIU closer to Davie, I'll gladly follow thier gay tips, but in the mean time GET OFF DA ROAD IM DA JUGGERGNAAAUGHT, BITCH!
May 17, 200620 yr I'm somewhat guilty in this case. Driving around here on South Beach with all the tourists and all the morons is enough to drive me crazy. On my drive to school there is almost never traffic, but no one comes close to reaching the speed limit. So annoying. And don't even get me started on the amount of idiocy that goes on in the hospital's parking garages.
May 17, 200620 yr I got cut off on the way into my office today & only narrowly avoided rear-ending the f*cker. After shouting some friendly words to him, it was all I could do not to follow the car into the parking lot, wait 'til they got out, and then crack their head open with a 4-iron. However I know exactly where the car is parked today.... mwuhahaha... South Florida = by far the worst collection of ignorant, incapable and inconsiderate drivers I've ever experienced. Speeding I have no problem with. I speed frequently. People that know how to drive can speed all the time & it's not a safety issue. But seriously any of you that tailgate & cut people off should be thrown to the lions.
May 17, 200620 yr You know what pisses me off the most? Those big ass trucks that think they own the road. They block traffic on an intersection because they're too impatient to wait for their turn to make a left/right. Yesterday on Okeechobee, I was on the red light and I was in the front. Then, some idiot comes from the turning lane, gets in front of me. Then, to top it all off, he takes forever to move when the light turned green and when he did, he drove like 10 miles an hour.
May 17, 200620 yr Not only does Nashville have friendly drivers, it's also probably the easiest big city to drive in.
May 19, 200620 yr 95 in South Florida is the worst. When I went up to Rhode Island a few weeks ago to visit family I was SHOCKED at how courteous the other drivers were.
May 19, 200620 yr Driving in Miami, every day you find someone on the road being a jerk, and I am not kidding.
May 19, 200620 yr Speeding I have no problem with. I speed frequently. People that know how to drive can speed all the time & it's not a safety issue. But seriously any of you that tailgate & cut people off should be thrown to the lions. Pretty much agreed. As long as conditions are ok, I don't see a problem with taking it over the speed limit maybe 10 mph. (IF you're not a screwball)
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