20 Blunts posted:

To me, if people would learn to appreciate safe following distances it would avoid so many of the accidents.

It's just so loving simple and actually requires less work.

My favorite thing on the freeway is what I call the "Left Lane Choo-Choo Train," which seemed to take off in Wisconsin after we raised the speed limit:

Basically the right lane is people with their cruise locked to the speed limit or lower than the speed limit, the latter mostly being the drunks and real old fucks.

The left lane then, is people who I don't think are looking at their speedometer much at all. Their thought process is more like "Is there car in front of ME!??? Car should move!!!"

So you just see this line of cars like less than 10' from each other's bumpers going like 85-90, 95-100, trying to make moves like the NASCAR line or whatever. Given that some people are going too slow in the right lane, sometimes you have find your way into the left lane choo-choo train, and you'll have some psycho get even closer to you in their fuckin Denali while you're just trying to overtake the semi truck going a little low, which should be obvious.

The upshot is just setting your cruise control to like 5mph over the limit, like a normal person, is becoming impossible to do over a long stretch. There just is no flow with these fucks.

loving nuke Waukesha county Wisconsin.

Snow Cone Capone posted:

A bit of driving schadenfreude is what I like to call the Penalty Box, wherein someone in the middle lane tries to floor it and pass the truck in front of him on the right, not seeing the car in the right lane just hidden by the truck, and he gets boxed in by the slow car in front of them and the truck to their left.
Bonus points if the cars that were behind him close the gap with the truck and he gets stuck in the box as multiple other cars pass him in the center lane.

redshirt posted:

Will anyone vouch for their local drivers, saying, "Yes, we drive real good around here"?

redshirt posted:

Will anyone vouch for their local drivers, saying, "Yes, we drive real good around here"?

redshirt posted:

Will anyone vouch for their local drivers, saying, "Yes, we drive real good around here"?

Azuth0667 posted:

No, philly, pittsburgh and state college drivers are examples if why we need public transit. They should not be allowed to inflict their bad driving on the world.

redshirt posted:

Will anyone vouch for their local drivers, saying, "Yes, we drive real good around here"?

Modal Auxiliary posted:

Recently moved to MD from PA and I promise it's worse here. Philly drivers are universally aggressive and can be trusted to do the most selfish maneuvers possible. This sucks, but at least it's predictable. MD is the loving Wild West, featuring an absolutely dismal mix of hyperaggression, terminal stupidity, criminally negligent automobile upkeep, and weapons-grade obliviousness and it is utterly impossible to predict any type of behavior from any driver. Also our infrastructure is so abysmally lovely that it basically encourages collisions. There's a reason we have the highest insurance premiums in the country (nearly double what I was paying in Philly), everyone else is just a pretender to the throne.

Also I've been seeing a lot more commercial drivers loving around on their phones lately, and last week I even witnessed two semi drivers doing that poo poo. I miss being car-free so loving bad.

Smugworth posted:

I drive an SUV

Space Kablooey posted:

20 Blunts posted:

Day 1 as president I have all Dodge Challenger drivers shot right in the face

20 Blunts posted:

Day 1 as president I have all Dodge Challenger drivers shot right in the face

quote:

Across 30 car brands analyzed, Ram has the worst drivers. Nationally, Ram drivers had 32.90 driving incidents (accidents, DUIs, speeding and citations) per 1,000 drivers from Nov. 14, 2022, through Nov. 14, 2023. Tesla (31.13) and Subaru (30.09) were the only other brands whose drivers had incident rates above 30.00.

Mercury has the best drivers in the year analyzed. Mercury drivers had 15.82 incidents per 1,000 drivers nationally — less than half the rate of incidents among Ram drivers. Pontiac (16.24) and Saturn (16.84) followed.

Looking closer, Ram has the worst drivers in 23 states. That means Ram drivers had the highest incident rates of any brand analyzed in nearly half of all U.S. states. Of the states where Ram dominated, drivers were worst in Massachusetts at 64.44 incidents per 1,000 drivers. Meanwhile, Tesla drivers were the worst in 11 states — the only other brand in the double digits.

Tesla drivers have the highest accident rate. From Nov. 14, 2022, through Nov. 14, 2023, Tesla drivers had 23.54 accidents per 1,000 drivers. Ram (22.76) and Subaru (20.90) were the only other brands with more than 20.00 accidents per 1,000 drivers. Meanwhile, Pontiac (8.41), Mercury (8.96) and Saturn (9.13) were the only brands with fewer than 10.00 accidents per 1,000 drivers.

BMW drivers have the highest DUI rate by a wide margin. BMW drivers had 3.13 DUIs per 1,000 drivers — nearly twice the rate of DUIs among Ram drivers (1.72), the next-highest ranking auto brand. On the other end, Mitsubishi (0.89), Volvo (0.92), and Mercury and Kia drivers (both 0.93) had the lowest DUI rates. Just nine of the 30 brands analyzed had DUI rates below 1.00 among their drivers.

bossy lady posted:

Here's your hit list:

https://www.lendingtree.com/insurance/brand-incidents-study/

redshirt posted:

Interesting. Why in the world would Mercury's have the least amount of incidents?

Modal Auxiliary posted:

There are only nine Mercury owners left in the world and they only drive two miles from the Senior Living Center to the Boston Market.

Azuth0667 posted:

They don't make saturns anymore, but lol at bmw dui rate. It truly is the mid-life crisis mobile.

Sir Mat of Dickie posted:

I wouldn't call myself a good driver by any means but I'm shocked by how many violations I witness day to day. Running stop signs especially, also lots of speeding in residential areas. Twice in the past year, I've seen people going the wrong way on a one-way street and that's twice too often... I'm very glad to have a dashcam.

JediTalentAgent posted:

Despite the fact they don't make them anymore, for some reason when I see a Saturn on the road in my area they tend to look 'newer' than they should. Not much rust that I notice, mostly in good shape, etc. People take good care of those for some reason.

JediTalentAgent posted:

Most my dashcams I've ever bought turn into garbage and their batteries are useless right out of the box. mSD cards just die after a few months, too, and the interface for accessing video is almost a nightmare on all of them, and trying to get video OFF of it it's also a pain as I found one of my cameras apparently was saving content in some format nothing but the camera could play back.

The next dashcam I buy I'm going to take a needle and poke the microphone and try to break it, though. (I know I can turn off audio recording, but hit the wrong button and it turns right back on)

Modal Auxiliary posted:

Also I lived in Amish country in PA for a bit and the drivers were all fantastic. There was a nearby velodrome where a lot of pros raced, so between all the cyclists and horsedrawn carriages and poo poo motorists were just unbelievably patient and impressively aware of their surroundings. Went back like two years ago and it was still the same deal.

Also Japan had pretty great drivers when I lived there, but that's probably a combination of the incredibly stringent licensure requirements and the pervasive cultural collectivism. That was also like 10 years ago, they could all be crazy cell phone zombies by now.