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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s are weird assumptions playing out on this thread. Two of them are:

1) Most drivers act like maniacs in DC
2) Most maniac drivers are from the suburbs

When I lived in NWDC for many years I saw two things:

1) The percentage of drivers actually driving dangerously was very small
2) Most dangerous drivers I witnessed had DC tags[/quote]

Might want to leave your NW bubble then.

I live in NE and use 295 daily. I see someone doing something incredibly dangerous literally every time I'm on that highway, whether it's excessive speed, weaving in and out of heavy traffic, driving on the shoulder to avoid traffic, people brazenly drinking beers or smoking blunts in their car, or any manner of other things.  The tags are fairly evenly spread out between DC, MD, and VA but the cars aren't. Inevitably it's a Crown Vic, Charger, Challenger, or Mustang.  [/quote]

+1 There are a ton of a-hole drivers, and for me it's to the point where it makes me engage in my own bad behaviors.  For example, if I'm on 295, I will often NOT put on my blinker if I'm changing lanes because I can't count on my fingers how many times I had ample room to switch lanes, put on my blinker, only to have some idiot behind me suddenly speed up to keep me from coming into "his" lane.  Especially frustrating when an exit is coming up.  It makes me not want to even give them the opening to do that.  Or, in general, fly up the far right lane at 75 or 80 mph passing cars when the actual passing lane is wide open.  Or, the idiots who lay on their horn because the light turned green but you can't yet turn right because there are still pedestrians crossing - as if you're supposed to run the pedestrians over or something.  Or the idiots who pull out into traffic without looking.  I run into nonsense like that just about every single time I take my car out.  There are a LOT of idiot drivers in the DMV.  Can't wait for the days of self-driving cars becoming ubiquitous.  Too many people can't be trusted to drive for themselves.[/quote]

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