The Best and Worst Drivers by State 2022 (insurance, vehicle, speed trap)
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“What? No way! Wrong.” After seven years, we’ve heard it all. No matter where a state ranks on our annual list of best and worst drivers, everyone thinks their state has the worst drivers in America. We dove into the data to find out which states actually do.
Not so sure about the methodology. I see more speed traps in a weekend in Ohio than I have in entire years in other states. Heavily weighted by enforcement level.
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Ohio drivers made the biggest jump in this year’s rankings. Ohio is now home to the fifth-worst drivers in the nation but in 2021 Ohio ranked 17th. Speeding and accidents are the biggest problems in Ohio. Ohio ranks fourth in speeding, eighth in accidents, 14th in citations and 15th in DUIs."
The methodology is seriously flawed. DUIs and accidents make sense. Tickets and speeding are meaningless. Some states simply put a lot more effort into enforcement and, let's face it, speeding has absolutely nothing to do with being a good/bad driver, and tickets have, at best, a tenuous relationship with good/bad driving.
Yeah, I agree about the methodology. It was just nice to see the state I come from finally ranked high in something. Of course, the state where I live now is pretty low rated, probably due to speeding tickets.
“What? No way! Wrong.” After seven years, we’ve heard it all. No matter where a state ranks on our annual list of best and worst drivers, everyone thinks their state has the worst drivers in America. We dove into the data to find out which states actually do.
For me, deaths per vehicle mile traveled is far more important and impactful than how many speeding tickets and DUI's they had out. See the table below, using this more relevant metric, South Carolina is the worst and Utah is very safe to drive in, which has been my experience.
The methodology is seriously flawed. DUIs and accidents make sense. Tickets and speeding are meaningless. Some states simply put a lot more effort into enforcement and, let's face it, speeding has absolutely nothing to do with being a good/bad driver, and tickets have, at best, a tenuous relationship with good/bad driving.
Exactly, first it assumes that speeding is the sign of a bad driver. I would argue that it is the sign of a confident driver.
Aside from that, using speeding tickets to determine how good the drivers in a state are is just dumb. A state like North Dakota which has a lot of speed traps, makes them bad drivers. Meanwhile South Dakotans are better drivers, because the state has less traffic enforcement.
If you take the approach that speeding is bad, then you should consider more speeding tickets being written to be a good thing, not a bad thing.
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