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After living in South Florida and having experienced drivers elsewhere I sure know one thing, most drivers from here don't drive at all that well. Drivers here sometimes are so bad I don't feel safe as a pedestrian on the street. With the rise of this cellular phone technology I'd say they've become even worse!
Where should I live if I want to live with the best and safest drivers? Feel free to include other countries.
Looks like the northeast is pretty safe! But honestly you have terrible drivers everywhere. And just so I can get my 1 generalization in for the day, stay away from areas with elderly folks. My specific town is known for older folks sticking around and I can't tell you how many drive way too slow for the rest of traffic. And you never know when they mistakenly hit the accelerator instead of the brake. One did that at a Dunkin Donuts here and killed a few folks. Unintended acceleration ain't just for Toyotas!
After living in South Florida and having experienced drivers elsewhere I sure know one thing, most drivers from here don't drive at all that well. Drivers here sometimes are so bad I don't feel safe as a pedestrian on the street. With the rise of this cellular phone technology I'd say they've become even worse!
Where should I live if I want to live with the best and safest drivers? Feel free to include other countries.
That's not surprising. I once read an article that confirmed my suspicion: Miami has the most aggressive drivers. You said S. Florida, so I'm guessing Miami is a good representation of S. FL.
That data didn't surprise me at all because, while I've driven in NYC, LA, DC, etc. I never felt the same driver hostility as I did in Miami. It's a VERY stressful place to drive/walk, if you ask me.
As for the safest city to drive in, you need to pick a city size first, as obviously most remote rural towns will have high safety numbers, because they have so few cars (and I'm not sure that's what you're looking for).
This is not a quantifiable metric. Any statistical compilation of traffic casualties, enforcement history, or other data would be a reflection of many factors, only one of which would be the community attitudes about motor vehicle safety, which could not be filtered out from the rest of the data. Accident-prone cities are made accident-prone by many factors, and the fact that a city is accident-prone might actually increase the attention of most drivers to highway safety risks, relegating your statistics to nothing but a trivial paradox.
There is simply no way that any data can be assembled in such a way that that relative safety habits of drivers can be ascertained. Least useful of all is to drive around for a couple of days and observe other drivers, relying for your data on casual assumptions about a few anecdotal incidents.
For example, if you observe that in a resort area, a lot of people drive like they don't know where they are going, is it possible that in a resort area, a lot of drivers actually do not know where they are going (or at least are not familiar with the local geography and landmarks), but all things being equal, would be among the more exemplary of safe drivers?
The OP's observation about south Florida is interesting. South Florida would have the highest average age of drivers, and cellphone use is heaviest among relatively young demographics. So, in fact, a high-age population would be inverse to a high-cell-phone use population. It would be peculiar indeed if both were used as indicators of the same phenomenon.
You may now go back to your personal pet peeves about the woman who inconvenienced you in the Dairy Queen parking lot yesterday,, which proves that the world's worst drivers are in your city.
It's been my experience that, no matter what part of the country someone comes from, he/she will claim that the drivers in their area (or from an adjoining state) are the worst to be found in the entire country.
In reality, bad drivers are everywhere, so the best thing that you can do is to take a Defensive Driving course and then apply that knowledge to your everyday driving. Rather than trying in vain to find an area where everyone drives carefully, it is more practical to just learn how to effectively deal with the bad/aggressive/unskilled/distracted drivers that you find in every state.
It's been my experience that, no matter what part of the country someone comes from, he/she will claim that the drivers in their area (or from an adjoining state) are the worst to be found in the entire country.
In reality, bad drivers are everywhere, so the best thing that you can do is to take a Defensive Driving course and then apply that knowledge to your everyday driving. Rather than trying in vain to find an area where everyone drives carefully, it is more practical to just learn how to effectively deal with the bad/aggressive/unskilled/distracted drivers that you find in every state.
Whut?
Every time I have relatives visiting here they complain about the drivers. Every time I head up north I notice how much better the drivers are.
The drivers from Miami, you just don't know how bad they REALLY are.
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My specific town is known for older folks sticking around and I can't tell you how many drive way too slow for the rest of traffic. And you never know when they mistakenly hit the accelerator instead of the brake. One did that at a Dunkin Donuts here and killed a few folks. Unintended acceleration ain't just for Toyotas!
