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Why are people in the South such horrible drivers?
I just moved from the Northeast and I get extremely frustrated at the lack of attention paid to, 1) moving over for faster traffic; 2) maintaining a decent speed so as not to create problems for other drivers. It's horrible.
OK, let me qualify this. Perhaps they are not horrible drivers, but inconsiderate drivers-which is odd becasue I view the South as much more hospitable than the North. I understand that life is generally slower in the South but when it comes to driving, it can't be.
I gather what you all are saying and I don't necessarily disagree that I may drive more agressively than those from the South, but that doesn't make it right for them to hold up traffic!!!
10 Answers
- 1 decade ago
The problem is is not the Southern drivers, but the fact that your still driving like a Northern. I'm originally from the north, so I'm speaking from experience.
Southerns are more laid back and a lot of retired people. When we go back up north for visiting we can tell when we hit the line. More people want to cut you off, and cuss you out for not hitting 75 in a 55 mph zone.
You have two choices, be patient and pass the person when you can. Or move back North. Just think, while do you think that car insurance is so much cheaper down here
- 1 decade ago
Why does it allways have to be a competition? Why is it that one has to be better or worse than the other. The thing is that there really isn't much of a true South anymore. I was born and raised in North Carolina and I have to say that with the great migration of northern people coming to the South, you would probably meet a Northern person on our roads just as likely as a Southern person.
- sweet_blueLv 71 decade ago
I am from Saskatoon, Sask in Canada
there are horrible drivers everywhere even here
the obvious reasons can be
talking on a cell phone,
and other multitasking when they should be paying attention
running red lights or stop signs
not paying attention to speed limit and they wonder why they got smacked.
Source(s): I have been vehicles when people have done these things or almost got hit by car because some idiot decides their phone is more important. - How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- 1 decade ago
I had a job that required me to travel all over the U.S. and the place that the driving sucked the most was - (drum roll) - the Northeast!! Maybe you think the driving sucks here because of all of the northerners that have moved here over the last 15 years.
- 1 decade ago
I'm from Texas, but live in the Northeast, and have seen the worst drivers in the nation here in the Philly area - my answer contradicts your question, unfortunately.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
the people in the south are horrible drivers because all the people from the north come down south for vacations and as snowbirds, etc. they are the horrible drivers. have you ever driven in d. c.? boy, there is a death trap waiting to happen.....
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It's not only people in the South.
Many drivers today are distracted by too many things. Whether it's talking on their cell phones, eating fast food, drinking sodas, blasting loud music, arguing with another passenger in the car, don't know where they're headed, etc.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
i have yet to meet anyone from the north east i thought could drive at all
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I take it you have never driven in D.C.....ugh.
