Survey: Many drivers are clueless

I probably qualify as an aggressive driver.  I am just old enough to have had belly full of people behind the wheel who appear to have gotten their drivers license from a Cracker Jack box.  Just yesterday, I had the car in front of me stop in the middle of a through street and try to wave a car stopped at a stop sign on the side street through.  I have so many close calls on accidents with the other driver on a cell phone that I can't count them any more.  Sorry, but until the general population learns to drive, I will continue to use my horn and likely be labeled "aggressive." 

After reading peoples comments here,  I can see that most of the problems with american drivers is that most of them are infantile little children with inferiority complexes who absolutely refuse to follow the rules because "other people" aren't following the rules, and they either feel "cheated" when someone gets in front of them on the highway (****?-its the highway, let someone change lanes if they want to) or get angry when someone who is not on a sunday drive or possibly has an emergency passes them when they are driving the speed limit or less in the fast lane.

 

It doesn't matter what a person scores on a test:  people can study to pass tests,  yet not retain the information any longer than necessary to pass it.  I have been driving since I was 7 (on vaction in peru) and have Never been in an accident nor gotten a ticket, even though I could not tell you what was on the driving test I took 30 some years ago when- I was 15- "in order to get my license."

 

As for Illegal immigrants:  I don't know if they have insurance or licenses or what not but they are -always- driving the speed limit, always signal and always let others pass without acting agro..maybe because they are illegal and do not want to draw attention to themselves because they could be deported.  they are NEVER problematic.

 

in Oakland (CA), "gangster types" in their cadillacs and monster cars do not even slow down for the stop signs nor stoplights unless they are carrying a felony amount of drugs and then they drive the speed limit and follow all the rules.  Try to call them on it, or cut them off, and they will either follow you to where you are going and beat you up, or just shoot you right there.

 

Not to mention that you can drive 100 mph around here and the cops will PASS YOU swerving in and out of the lanes without signalling and without lights or sirens while they are talking on their cell phones or texting themselves!  I see it EVERY DAY!

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Here in California you do not need a drivers license to buy a vehicle but need insurance which some folks cancel and still get to drive the vehicle.  Many of our drivers do not have licenses and many of them are here illegally.

I don't know when other states did this, but in the early 90's, Montana went from having to take the written test in order to renewing your license every two to four years (depending on your D.O.B.), to paying a fee (usually $50.00 to $100.00) no test required to renew.  Since then there has been an alarming increase in poor drivers on both the streets and highways here in Montana.  I firmly believe that we need to have the system go back to the two or four year testing requirements, this way the old adage "I didn't know." become irrelevant.  Not to mention the law enforcement officials need to enforce these traffic laws instead of letting it slide like they usually do.  These laws are in place for all of our safety, they need to be enforced in order for them to work.

There are an insignificant number of drivers on the road -- as it exists today -- who are in any way qualified to drive.

 

The existing high-speed freeway system was designed by total dedicated engineering nincompoops who failed to apply even a minimal attempt at an understanding of the very considerable shortcomings of human beings and how best to bridge them.

 

The time has come a while AGO for humans to be taken from behind the wheel and replaced by autonomous automated machine drivers.  The technology of today is very nearly functionally sufficient and needs but to be commercialized for cost and reliability. 

 

Very nearly nothing needs to be done to the existing infrastructure, save to keep the lines painted ACCORDING TO SOME CONSISTENT RATIONAL RULES instead of as they are today and then kept maintained. 

 

In most if not all instances, traffic signals can be abandoned, as the vehicles will be ordered in platoons and simply pass thru one another at intersections.  Initially, that will be found scary to passengers, but it will come off without a hitch (mostly).

 

It is time to get going and to desist from killing a planeload of men, women and children every day on the streets and the highways of this nation ! ! !

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EndlessGrowthDOOM is a consumate idiot.  STFU and GTFO.

Just to clarify, we're talking about the written test here which, while it gives you the foundations to share the road, does not teach you the everyday nuances of driving well. Many of the rules of driving are true as you cross state lines and as you practice them, you realize they make sense and as a result, are a bit intuitive. For example, it makes sense that as a driver entering a highway, you're responsible for yielding to the current flow of traffic as it's much easier to stop at a slower speed than entering the highway asking other drivers at full speed to slow down.  There are others like when coming from two lane traffic into single lane, the right lane yields to the left or turning into the lane closest to you. Yada, Yada.  I've lived and learned to drive in New York City and am so surprised that New York scored the worst.  I lived in Virginia and Miami, visited countless other states and now live in New Jersey. Two places who almost never yield when entering a highway are New Jersey and Miami. These kinds of rules far surpass asking someone to recall a written test they took eons ago, it is whether or not they ever learned and practiced the rules in the first place. Miami in particular, the drivers have a lot of road rage, they're discourteous to other drivers, hate it when beeped at (even when they're clearly behaving recklessly). I have never seen more accidents resulting in fatalities as I saw there. Sure, it can be argued that there are many NY transplants in Miami, I would have to classify them as wayward lol.   New York drivers have some of the best reflexes around and reckless as we might seem to those unfamiliar, I have not seen as many body parts, totaled cars and drivers literally killing each other over accidents as I saw in Miami. At the end of the day, driving well is not about how fast you drive or how many tricks you can do the road but rather how well you avoid accidents which includes avoiding creating bad situations for other drivers to have to figure out. As an aside, it seems that anytime people are given the opportunity to comment on something, they immediately use it as an platform to spew their ignorance and hate for whichever group they designate. People are far less tolerant than they let on and it's unfortunate.

Not surprised at all by the findings. Truly, most people on the road today have absolutely NO CLUE what a turn signal is, what a solid line means, how to merge, or tons of other basic driving knowledge. The best part is that they probably believe they are GOOD drivers!! I truly enjoy when they get indignant that their garbage driving skills upset others.

 

These people should have been picked off by packs of wolves in the olden days but, unfortunately, they are still around to menace everybody else on the road

None of this surprises me. I drive in the boston area and suburbs and have seen the worst driving ever increase over the years. Its a Me First attitude out there and This Phone Call Im On is way more important than just flicking on my blinker to let you pee-ons behind me know which way im going. The newest triple threat?? Chinese women on the phone and driving a SUV. Now youre in trouble! Oh and by the way.. Cell phone companies could easily make a phone that doesnt allow texting if a GPS device showed that it was travelling faster than say.. 30 Mph, but will they? No, because no one will buy that phone.. they would rather be dead than not be able to text and drive.