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Are Utah drivers any worse than other drivers?

Are Utah drivers any worse than other drivers

  • Yes

    Votes: 7 36.8%

  • No

    Votes: 8 42.1%

  • Only when they're out of cheese

    Votes: 4 21.1%
  • Total voters
    19
Duck Rodgers said:
The out of state students are absolutely horrid drivers in Provo, especially when you mix in weather coniditions. I don't think on a general level I have noticed much of a difference though, just the normal variations you would expect when population density and road qualities differ in differing places.
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Having driven in every state in the USA I would agree with this. I would add that most of the ****ty student drivers in Provo from out of state are from California.
 
Archie Moses said:
The Bay Area is a lot bigger than San Fran.
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You would know about things that are big in San Fran...


It honestly seems like driving anywhere in the Bay Area is a nightmare...but i attribute it all to there being a fundamental lack of parking in San Fran... my theory is... that a guy who wants to go to Subway, but there is no parking... parks at a Jamba Juice... and the guy who wants to go to Jamba Juice, but there is no parking... parks in front of a bakery, and the guy at the bakery parks at the theatre, and the theatre guy parks in Palo Alto... etc..
 
Archie Moses said:
Why was there a ticket issued though?
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Failure to maintain one lane, resulting in an accident. The best part was that no cop saw it, there were no witnesses that stopped, the first cop on the scene called another and left when the new one got there. If I had chosen to lie on the accident report and fight it, I probably could have gotten away with it.
 
colton said:
I've lived in 7 locations since getting my driver's license: Maryland, Provo, Germany, California, different part of Maryland, Wisconsin, Orem. And I've driven in countless other locations (too many to list). Utah drivers have been the worst of any of those places.

The most egregious offenses have already been mentioned: not letting people merge, not using turn signals, and aggressive driving.
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What parts of Maryland? I lived in Harford County for a few years.
 
Days when some one won't let me merge are the days I miss my Jeep. It was lifted and I would just continue to merge over due to my car being bigger than theirs.
 
catratcho said:
Failure to maintain one lane, resulting in an accident. The best part was that no cop saw it, there were no witnesses that stopped, the first cop on the scene called another and left when the new one got there. If I had chosen to lie on the accident report and fight it, I probably could have gotten away with it.
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How are you supposed to maintain a lane when you're hydroplaning out of control? What a fail.
 
Archie Moses said:
The Bay Area is pretty bad.
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I disagree with this. The whole discussion about parking being a nightmare there is on point, but I find drivers are far more courteous than in Utah. If I signal a lane change, 99% of the time I have no problem doing it, even trying to go west over the Bay Bridge on a Saturday. It has been well documented in this thread how Utah drivers feel about letting anyone in front of them, space allowing or not.
 
Utah drivers can be bad, but as long as there are drivers from Idaho and Wyoming, they aren't the worst. The scariest place I've ever been in a car was Boston. Part of it was the streets, but most of it was the drivers.
 
I agree with the Wyoming part. I went to Jackson Hole on my honeymoon. I've never had so many people cut me off with nobody in view behind me only to go 5 below the speed limit. Longest drive of my freaking life, for more than 1 reason.
 
Bronco70 said:
I disagree with this. The whole discussion about parking being a nightmare there is on point, but I find drivers are far more courteous than in Utah. If I signal a lane change, 99% of the time I have no problem doing it, even trying to go west over the Bay Bridge on a Saturday. It has been well documented in this thread how Utah drivers feel about letting anyone in front of them, space allowing or not.
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I agree completely. I stayed mainly in the East Bay area, but I found bay area drivers to be very good. And like you said, always willing to let you merge in front of them.
 
Archie Moses said:
I lived in Waldorf.
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Small world! That's just a hop, step, and jump from where I used to live in Fort Washington. Same stake, even. I was in the Capitol Ward, which met in the Suitland stake center building. (I'm pretty sure you are LDS, apologies if not.)
 
Scariest time I have ever had in a car was in Erfurt Germany, in a trabant with 3 other guys. The driver, a large burly german gentlemen about 45 years old at the time, was, I am convinced, partly insane and had the little lawn-mower engine screaming as he whipped through twisty cobblestone streets in the rain at about 90 kmh, which I am sure was top speed for that little death trap. I lost track of how many times I thought we were all going to die. At least 3 times we slid the equivalent of 2 full lanes sideways when flying through intersections, ignoring all street signs. All the time the driver is chatting away like it is a sunday stroll through the park. Fun fun fun fun!
 
On my mission in Honduras there were multiple times I thought I was going to die on a bus in the middle of nowhere. It's nothing for buses or cars to pass each other going around blind curves in mountains. More than one burned and wrecked bus on the side of the highway between Tegucigalpa and Choluteca. When my parents came to pick me up, I was driving from one city to another and driving not quite as bad as some of the local bus/taxi drivers. My dad made me stop and pull over so he could trade me places.
 
kwb said:
Days when some one won't let me merge are the days I miss my Jeep. It was lifted and I would just continue to merge over due to my car being bigger than theirs.
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This is true. I had an 84 ford highboy deisel truck. I just turned on the signal and started moving. They got out of the way. It was also dented and had a mat black finish so they could understand that I did not care if I had to move them. :)
 
colton said:
Small world! That's just a hop, step, and jump from where I used to live in Fort Washington. Same stake, even. I was in the Capitol Ward, which met in the Suitland stake center building. (I'm pretty sure you are LDS, apologies if not.)
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I know that building. Yes, I'm LDS.
 
I'm with YB, Boston was the scariest place to drive. I actually didn't drive at all, but rode in a bunch of taxi's. Honking, swearing, and cutting people off on purpose was the norm. I honestly could not believe what was going on. Our driver, from the airport to the hotel, must've honked his horn and screamed at the other drivers 20 times in the 15 minute drive. Craziness.
 
Archie Moses said:
The Bay Area is pretty bad. There's a reason there's a stereotype about Asians being bad drivers. You also have to deal with guys driving Miatas.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Guys have a right to buy Miatas if they want to.
 
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