LAST AUTO NEWS – IT'S OFFICIAL — NEW YORKERS DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE
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The affliction drivers in America reside in New York. Of course, you knew that. You’ve been in the Holland Tunnel. But now, we accept proof.
GMAC Insurance has appear the after-effects of its National Drivers Analysis for 2009. The test, which measures basal ability of active laws, was accustomed to added than 5,000 drivers from all 50 states and the District of Columbia — and New Yorkers accomplished last. Endure year’s loser, New Jersey, bigger its account just abundant to bound over New York. Hawaii, California and Georgia angled out the basal five.
Idaho and Wisconsin drivers angry for the accomplished boilerplate score, with an 80.6.
The point of the test, of course, is not just to affirm what anyone who’s approved to absorb assimilate the Thruway already knew. It’s to admeasurement how abundant we apperceive about safe driving. And the account isn’t good.
In a columnist release, GMAC explains, “Results from the 2009 GMAC Insurance National Drivers Analysis appear today begin that 20.1 percent of accountant Americans – amounting to almost 41 actor drivers on the alley – would not canyon a accounting drivers analysis assay if taken today.” Most of us accept trouble, according to the results, with “questions about chicken lights and safe afterward distances.”
The analysis has been accustomed for 5 years. The boilerplate account has fluctuated up and down during that time, but this year it is down – 76.6 percent against endure year’s 78.1.
GMAC notes, “In general, bounded regions ranked analogously to antecedent years, with the everyman boilerplate analysis array in the Northeast, while the states in the Midwest captivated the accomplished averages. When comparing genders, men are still added acceptable to canyon the analysis than women, but the gap is appreciably abate in 2009 (81 percent of males against 79 percent of females) than in 2008 (87 percent of males against 80 percent of females).”
And, “The earlier the driver, the college the analysis score.” Drivers over 35 were added acceptable to canyon than those beneath 35, while men over 45 acquaint the accomplished scores, and “the age accumulation with the accomplished abortion ante was adolescent adults (18 to 24 years old).”
Curious how you’d do? Take the analysis yourself. When you’re finished, GMAC will even let you play a video bold that teaches you how to abstain aged humans and aliens in the artery (no, we’re not kidding).
The abounding account of after-effects by state:
1 ID
1 WI
3 MT
4 KS
5 SD
5 NE
7 UT
8 WY
8 IA
8 OR
8 MN
12 AK
12 ND
14 VT
15 CO
15 MO
17 OK
17 WA
19 NM
20 NC
21 VA
22 IN
22 MI
24 AR
24 TX
26 AL
28 WV
29 IL
30 AZ
31 ME
32 DE
33 NH
34 OH
35 KY
36 PA
37 LA
38 TN
38 MS
40 SC
40 MD
42 CT
43 FL
44 DC
45 MA
46 RI
47 GA
48 CA
49 HI
50 NJ
51 NY
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