Inspired by a posting by hammercock.

[randomness]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/hammercock/418380.html quotes a CNN/Money article on a GMAC Insurance study of drivers. It found Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Jersey drivers doing the worst on a test on driving rules and safety.

Today, I found this little Harpers-index-esque bit on France by the numbers, which included this factoid:

"200,000 people are believed to be driving illegally without licences in France"

That's a lot of unlicenced drivers for a country of 50 million.

Also of interest:

"Expatriate French total 2m of which 500,000 live in the United States."

Comments

[holmes-iv.livejournal.com]

Well, it may be that Texas just has a lower liability requirement and less plaintiff-friendly courts. (No knowledge of the question, but neither of those would surprise me much.) That said, I don't think everybody thinks their local drivers are the worst: most people I know think Jersey drivers are the worst, though I'll admit to having had a few bad experiences with New York and Rhode Island drivers on I-95. But considering how few Rhode Island drivers there are out there, they'd have to be really bad to stick in people's minds as much as much as the New Jersey drivers do.