Worst Drivers?

I've proclaimed this for some time, but it's nice to have some empirical evidence to back me up: the Northeast has the nation's stupidest drivers. The GMAC Insurance National Driver's Test found that 1 in 10 American drivers would fail a state driver's test if they had to take one today. In the Northeast the figure doubles to 1 in 5!

If you've lived someplace else and then driven between Boston and Washington, D.C. you will not be at all surprised to learn that the path of states between these cities produce the very worst drivers our country has to offer. The trip down I-95 from Beantown to the Capitol is actually the consummate tour of driving stupidity; it includes: Massachusetts (2nd stupidest drivers), Rhode Island (stupidest of all! -average score 8 points above failing), Connecticut (8th stupidest), New York (4th), New Jersey (3rd ), Delaware (14th), Maryland (6th ), and Washington D.C. (5th). Amazingly, the eight state tour includes the six stupidest in the union.

Who has the smartest drivers? In order: Oregon, Washington, Iowa, Idaho, Vermont, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. See full rankings here.