Tell me you’ve never been to Texas without telling me you’ve never been to Texas. 😉
I have, in fact, been to Texas. Driven through it twice and went to Ft. Worth by plane once. The drivers were not by any means great, but the ones in Atlanta were so much worse.
Maybe those are not the part you’re thinking of?
Florida man here. Driven I-4 many times, can be scary, but not horrible. Miami, yes can be horrifying.
Dallas and Houston, I hate driving in the most. I don’t like Atlanta traffic, but I’d agree with you it’s awful. I was just being coy with my comment. Atlanta is probably top 10 worst drivers in the country. That list probably correlates well with biggest cities too.
Maybe it’s because I drive less since Covid, but I’d seems like everyone has gotten 10x more aggressive. Just in general. Kindness seems to almost be obsolete and decency is a rarity.
For what it’s worth, my mantra when driving is lead, follow, or get out of the way. I try to match speed to about the 80th percentile of traffic so I don’t jam things up, but also not the one that sticks out to get the speeding ticket.
Hello from NYC
I don’t get how there’s SO MANY TESLAS. Virtually no one has a garage.
the thing with NYC is thay everyone is moving so slow it stops being driving and starts being walking in a crowded hallway. it looks like a clusterfuck, mostly because it is a clusterfuck, but if you take it easy and be patient it’s very managable. once you cross the throgg’s neck, that’s when you’re in for a really bad time. although that too can be predictable: just assume everyone on the road is going to do the single most malicious thing possible and you’re right nine out of ten times
Everyone seems to think they have, or have just encountered, the worst breed of drivers, but that they themselves are pretty good at it. Change my mind.
I’m “good at it” to the point that I’ve never been in a crash that I caused. I can’t really go much further than that. I’ve made my share of stupid mistakes.
But I also try to be a courteous driver as much as I can. I don’t do shit like cut in front of other people on an interstate where everyone is doing at least 70 without bothering to use your turn signals. Which happened to me twice in the four days I was there.
I came to the opposite conclusion after living in Atlanta for a few years.
My experience was that Atlanta drivers are very accustomed to high traffic, so will do things like drive closely packed af 85mph on the freeway, assertively take advantage of gaps or entry opportunities, and not wait around for you to turn and will swerve around you.
But they have the experience to do it fairly adeptly, and once you get used to it, there is very little friction outside of congestion. People use signals, anticipate movements and coordinate to ensure flow, and seem to generally get the “game theory” aspect of making traffic work better.
They also aren’t assholes like in the northeast - if you put your blinker on they’ll let you into the fast lane, instead of speeding up to block you. There’s very little honking or aggressive behavior. I’ve rarely witnessed road rage.
Of course some people suck, but it’s a minority.
Can’t be worse than DC.
Well no one in Atlanta is from Atlanta. We blame the rest of you for sending us your bad drivers.
Same with L.A. Which had the second-worst drivers. And I had to live there for 10 years.
I’m admitting to not being perfect, but trying to be as good and courteous as I can.
Are you a perfect driver? Do you try to be as good and courteous as you can?
