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I never plan to find out myself but the Dominican Republic sounds like an absolute nightmare to drive in every time I hear it described. Mad Max poo poo The worst I've personally experienced was in St. Cloud, MN. The light cycles are all really long, so if you miss a green, you're going to be sitting there for a while. As a result, even fuckin grandmas run red lights constantly, and as a result of that, people just sit there for several seconds when the light turns green before they even start to go because going when it actually turns green comes with a high risk of getting T-boned (plus you don't have to be in a hurry at the front anyway, you're not at risk of getting stuck for another long cycle). Natives internalize it to some extent but it fuckin sucks if you're just visiting
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Shamino posted:Mexico City is both awful and excellent at the same time. Bangalore is extremely terrible, just nonstop horn honking. Loop 99 has the speed limit in the name.
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May 17, 2020 19:06
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I can't speak for the world (Greece and Italy both scared the crap out of me) but within the US it's Atlanta. Plenty of places have suicidally fast, aggressive drivers, but few have drivers who are also sloppy as hell *and* almost exclusively driving gigantic pick-up trucks, and all of it takes place in one of the largest, most poorly planned urban hellscapes in the western hemisphere. Give me LA, Boston, New York, Chicago, I'd happily drive all of them again before I go back to Atlanta.
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TheIncredulousHulk posted:
Lived there for a short time and I can confirm the traffic in that city really sucks, at least it did 10 years ago the last time I was up there.
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Worst drivers in the world: 1. where i live now 2. where i used to live 3. Me
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get the gently caress outta my way assholes!!!
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Besides Miami traffic and the occasional typical old people driving like old people, Florida is surprisingly not as bad as you’d think. Missouri had some of the dumbest drivers I’ve seen, but traffic’s not bad in the STL area. It’s a hollowed out husk of a city though.
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N-thing that the Cairo video was nuts. Watching that was wild, if I ever had to drive a car there I would probably just have a panic attack. Knowing that other countries have poo poo like that going down really put my midwestern driving experiences in perspective.
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Bruegels Fuckbooks posted:in nyc in the pre-uber days i made the mistake of trying to get a cab without knowing what a gypsy cab was. i even saw a bunch of people refuse to get in one, reasoning "this cab doesn't have a meter, let's get a different cab" but I rolled low on my int and wis checks that day and got taken for sixty dollars for a terrifying fifteen block cab ride. Oh yeah I know the list of Uber/Lyft negatives is long but one big positive is seeing exactly what a trip will cost before you get in a car, especially somewhere you don’t live, is great.
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Atlanta Georgia. See, there's places with horrible bumper to bumper gridlock. That sucks, that traffic is terrible, but you really can't gently caress up staying still and the worst that will happen is like, someone realizes they need to change lanes, and does so in an unwise way. Then there's places where people drive fast and aggressive, but those people at least are often at least average in driver skill, and as such can go years without killing themselves. Atlanta tries to be both, and combines with the fact that everyone in a terrible, awful, no good, very bad driver. People stopping, dead stopping, in the middle lane of the highway because they missed their exit. Going 80 in a 35. And of course the old classic, cutting across 5 lanes of traffic without looking, to get in the car pool lane.
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Seeing those videos are wild, I’ve never been anywhere or lived anywhere with bad traffic. That being said my wife and I decided to make a lifestyle change and move into a much smaller space but have essentially no commute. I walk to work takes 10 minutes max her drive is 5 minutes or a walk, before that I had a daily commute 40 minutes one way The amount of free time I have now compared to before is insane
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Was in Baku last year and their way of driving is to all merge into one giant mass. Like they have lanes marked down but they all just stick their car wherever there is a space. It was pretty awesome though i wish i had a chance to drive there myself.
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May 17, 2020 22:13
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Back in the day China was pretty bad because tons of people had cars, but it was their first car so it was like everyone in the country was a 16 year old who just got their license.
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hakimashou posted:Back in the day China was pretty bad because tons of people had cars, but it was their first car so it was like everyone in the country was a 16 year old who just got their license. 
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the internet says: Countries With The Highest Road Traffic Death Rate Rank Country Car Accident Deaths (Per 100,000 Inhabitants) 1 Libya 73.4 2 Thailand 36.2 3 Malawi 35.0 4 Liberia 33.7 5 Democratic Republic of the Congo 33.2 6 Tanzania 32.9 7 Central African Republic 32.4 8 Iran 32.1 9 Rwanda 32.1
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dee eight posted:the internet says: I don't really know anything about countries or their driving but that checks out
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I drove through the entirety of alabama in a morning. I wanted to go fast but everyone was passing me at 90 mph. Best part of my trip.
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Statutory Ape posted:I don't really know anything about countries or their driving but that checks out Libya is IEDs Thailand is drunk expats on scooters The rest I don't know but probably lovely infrastructure and a combination of the above
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May 17, 2020 23:16
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what is a drunk expat but a mobile ied
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Let’s check why some people have stopped yielding to ambulances in Tehran:quote:When the phone rang at a private ambulance center in Tehran, a famous Iranian soccer player was on the line. The operator recognized him instantly and expressed sympathy for the presumed medical emergency in his family. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/24/world/middleeast/iran-ambulance-traffic.html
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mobby_6kl posted:The rest I don't know but probably lovely infrastructure and a combination of the above Surprisingly, not Rwanda! quote:You can hire a car to explore Rwanda but driving at night is not advised, largely due to the poor road conditions and unlit roads in rural locations. Landslides and flooding can also present danger to drivers during the rainy seasons in autumn and late spring.
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Does anyone have that vid of that one US guy having insane road rage, chasing somebody down, flipping his own car, then still trying to catch up? I don’t remember any other details other than the fact that the chase should have ended after flipping the car over, but it didn’t.
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I was going to make the joke "gotta be this city!" but that was op's unironic point.
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I was going to say Liberia and i am happy to see it is on the list of bad drivers.
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I've never traveled outside of the U.S., but Baton Rouge is pretty bad.
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Watching the Cairo video, I can't in good faith claim they have the worst drivers or traffic since they set the bar so highly with never giving right-of-way to pedestrians, something developed countries still haven't gotten right.
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buglord posted:Does anyone have that vid of that one US guy having insane road rage, chasing somebody down, flipping his own car, then still trying to catch up? I don’t remember any other details other than the fact that the chase should have ended after flipping the car over, but it didn’t. ...no 
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Tiny Tubesteak Tom posted:people say Boston drivers are bad but Boston drivers are insanely good. they know where they're going, they know how to get there, and they know how to do it fast. what fucks everything up is some out of towner who is too scared to drive 60 in the tunnel and who is physically incapable of changing lanes without a mile and a half of open road. that person is the one who will gently caress everything up, and since lovely rear end New Yorkers LOVE to drive up the pike because their own state sucks, those kinds of people are everywhere. I don't know what it is with NY state license plates but the sheer lack of awareness is astounding. I get it that NJ drivers are psychotic but man NY drivers make the rear view mirror a vestigial object. I used to drive an ambulance when I was younger and both times I had someone blocking us with sirens on it was a NY driver. They just don't care. Every time I go to visit my family out in the boonies there's just a line 10 miles long of them blocking traffic across 4 lanes. PA drivers are slower but there's just something about NY drivers that make them stand out.
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buglord posted:Does anyone have that vid of that one US guy having insane road rage, chasing somebody down, flipping his own car, then still trying to catch up? I don’t remember any other details other than the fact that the chase should have ended after flipping the car over, but it didn’t. I know what video you are talking about but it was taken down like 2 weeks after it was put up and I haven't seen it since. Guy chasing another person while crazy fast on freeway (for a hit an run - other guy bumped him I think), rolls his car while pursuing other vehicle on an on ramp but it flips over completely so he keeps on chasing the guy. Also there is a passenger in the car who is calling the police. EDIT: I found it https://streamable.com/cestm Whooping Crabs fucked around with this message at 06:16 on May 18, 2020 |
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Whooping Crabs posted:I know what video you are talking about but it was taken down like 2 weeks after it was put up and I haven't seen it since. Guy chasing another person while crazy fast on freeway (for a hit an run - other guy bumped him I think), rolls his car while pursuing other vehicle on an on ramp but it flips over completely so he keeps on chasing the guy. Also there is a passenger in the car who is calling the police. Holy poo poo
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Whooping Crabs posted:EDIT: I found it https://streamable.com/cestm Christ. He had the license plate, dashcam video, and presumably car insurance. There was no need for a deranged episode of wreckless vigilantism.
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If you want to die of terror, go to any country in the Caucasus mountains. They are not necessarily bad drivers but are utterly incapable of driving slower than 140 km/h in all circumstances especially narrow mountain roads.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:Christ. He had the license plate, dashcam video, and presumably car insurance. There was no need for a deranged episode of wreckless vigilantism. That was certainly not wreckless. Quite the opposite, really. Portland doesn’t have the worst drivers but it has the highest concentration of a specific type of terrible driver- the Nicehole. The people that will stop traffic to make a left, or to try to wave someone out onto a busy road (only stopping one lane of the several lanes of oncoming traffic). They’ll wave a pedestrian across without seeing if there’s anyone else actively entering the intersection. That kind of thing. Never driving there again.
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Portland sounds like Michigan except probably without potholes big enough to develop a swamp ecosystem
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I was going to make the joke "gotta be this city!" but that was op's unironic point. If you go through the threads in LAN every single one is convinced they have the worst drivers in America
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:If you go through the threads in LAN every single one is convinced they have the worst drivers in America probably not the boston thread
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Ugly In The Morning posted:That was certainly not wreckless. Quite the opposite, really. I don't mean to argue, but when speeding on wet roads, cutting people off, not maintaining your lane (or driving off the road in some cases), all leads to you losing control and literally flipping your car, I'd say that collectively demonstrates no regard for your safety or the safety of others. I don't think a cop would have any qualms about charging both of them with reckless driving. But at the very least we can agree that he's psychotic and probably ready to beat the other guy with a tire iron.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:I don't mean to argue, but when speeding on wet roads, cutting people off, not maintaining your lane (or driving off the road in some cases), all leads to you losing control and literally flipping your car, I'd say that collectively demonstrates no regard for your safety or the safety of others. I don't think a cop would have any qualms about charging both of them with reckless driving. I was making a joke about you misspelling it as “wreckless” when there was absolutely a wreck.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:I don't mean to argue, but when speeding on wet roads, cutting people off, not maintaining your lane (or driving off the road in some cases), all leads to you losing control and literally flipping your car, I'd say that collectively demonstrates no regard for your safety or the safety of others. I don't think a cop would have any qualms about charging both of them with reckless driving. 
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lol rekt honestly ty for this exchange
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