So it's not just me, the SF Bay area really does have some of the worst drivers.
Allstate Insurance ranked San Francisco 185 out of 193 on the Best Drivers report.
posted on Wednesday, Jul 8th by retro.joe
posted on Wednesday, Jul 8th by retro.joe
Oakland managed 160.
LA is 184 but significantly better than SF in crash likelihood.
Salinas was the only CA city to crack the top 50, at 37.
Wow, just wow.
link?
http://assets.bizjournals.com/cms_media/atlanta/pdf/2009_Drivers_Report.pdf
thankyamuch!
I will happily put up Vancouver against anyone at the bottom of this list.
@-j. To a certain extent, snow seems to improve score. Milwaukee is the first city with >500K population at 19th.
Man, I'm doing metric analytics in threads. My job is now part of my life. For a second I was seriously considering doing a snowfall to ranking correlation.
Snow is not so much the issue, as idiots.
^ Where's Mace when we need her?
i take exception to the conclusion that reported collision rates are valid metric for a set of drivers collective quality. furthermore, that the author of this report either doesn't know the difference between Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas, OR swapped the two in the table after sorting puts the entire legitimacy in question for me. note the collision rates for the two, and you'll see they fucked it up.
but more importantly....[see next comment....this one's already too boring.]
for one, reported collision rates probably are lower....for one, the cops are fucking incompetent and don't even want to deal with a non-injury crash. also, since these places have less traffic congestion, there is less of a need to have cops/towing there pronto. but in general, people work these things out among themselves in places like Missouri to a much greater degree than they do here. thus, many collisions just don't make it into the data.
second, yeah, collision rates probably are ACTUALLY lower, too. that's b/c everyone drives like a fucking grandmother. it's infuriating. i can't drive with those people. 50mph in the hammer lane? fuck off.
HAH Miami is 169.
@SRB That's quite the rant. Why do you say they switch the Kansas Cities around?
Philly is 188! I KNEW it!
@retro.joe yeah, sometimes i put together a proper rant.
look at the column "Relative Collision Likelihood (to National Average)". it should be in increasing order. well, you get to KC, KS and it's out of order, then again down the list for KC, MO. they fail at attention to detail.
srsly, can i get a WHAT WHAT up in here?