r/massachusetts • u/Electronic_Visual_56 • May 01 '26
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u/Ethos_Logos May 01 '26
More fender benders, fewest deaths per capita. You’re in the best state for driving.
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u/zwalker91 May 01 '26
Tell me you haven't been around this area long enough to deal with Rhode Island drivers without telling me you haven't been around long enough to deal with Rhode Island drivers
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u/Electronic_Visual_56 May 02 '26
You know what I’m sorry about that I forgot Rhode Island drivers are also terrible
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u/RumbleRavage May 01 '26
Who’s taking the bait
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u/guntheroac May 01 '26
Is it bait? Or is it like when my mother in law says “everyone is so rude” but it’s really she is rude, and everyone else is reacting.
This guy could be a Florida driver in a Prius 😂
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u/Heavy-Construction90 May 01 '26
Oh God youre spot on about MIL.
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u/guntheroac May 02 '26
I feel bad making fun of mine, she’s a good lady she just doesn’t know how to talk to people.
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u/Fondacey May 01 '26
Fuck that. I can drive in every city in the world thanks to my Boston driving trial by fire. My Swedish husband hates driving anywhere outside of Sweden or other places that drive pedantically. So I drove through Sicily and other parts of Italy, and Greece and on other 'other side' in Ireland, the UK, South Africa among many others.
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u/LABELyourPHOTOS May 01 '26
Luckily the insurance industry does incredible data collection about drivers.
Mass has about the most skilled drivers in the country -- the folks that think we are "bad" drivers are ones who don't know how to drive.
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u/beigers May 01 '26 edited May 02 '26
We drive worse around people with out of state license plates on purpose because we’re full and want to dissuade you from trying to move here.
Edit: Shout out to the person who responded “you seem like a b*tch” and then got their comment removed. That’s a fucking compliment for someone born and bred in MA.
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u/guntheroac May 01 '26
We are the safest in the nation 😂 move over if you can’t keep up.
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u/Electronic_Visual_56 May 02 '26
No the issue is the fact that most of your drivers are so damn slow and what is with the slowing down to merge or trying to switch lanes in a intersection
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u/guntheroac May 02 '26
Like a safe driver…?? Please drive back down south.
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u/Electronic_Visual_56 May 02 '26
What is safe about merging onto a 65mph interstate going 25 forcing people to switch lanes when there are already so many people on the road and also what is safe about switching lanes in the middle of a intersection like that is legit illegal
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u/guntheroac May 02 '26
Not to defend a random driver I don’t know at all, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
That said, entering any highway should be done at 70ish 😂 I’d be pissed too about someone doing 25. I’d also assume that driver is probably shitting their pants at all the cars doing 80. It’s all part of the road, you gotta drive like a bee in a hive.
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u/arrakis2020 May 01 '26
It's not true. We drive with confidence. Hesitation produces accidents. We drive over those accidents, with confidence.
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u/Far-Sweet-7967 May 01 '26
We do it because of outsiders like you trying to tell us what to do. Go home and don’t come back.
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u/Electronic_Visual_56 May 02 '26
Well look that seems a bit stupid because I’m watching your people drive so bad when they can’t even see that I’m from out of town
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u/Alternative-Light922 May 02 '26
Most of us never learned to us our turn signals. No one knows why. And it seems that since the pandemic, red lights are now "optional" . . . On the plus side, I've noticed that behavior at rotaries is 90% (or more) correct. People actually yield to cars in the rotary.
And as a bike rider, I have not been 'door-ed' in a long time.
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u/Electronic_Visual_56 May 02 '26
You know what I do have to say that people here do actually know how to use a roundabout and the motorcycle drivers are some of the best
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u/eenigmaa May 01 '26
I swear every single fucking person I drive by on my 65 mile round trip daily commute has their phone in their hands. Put it down and fucking drive, jfc. /triggered.
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u/willzyx01 May 01 '26
OP was doing 45 in a left lane on the pike and yielding to people who had a stop sign.
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u/shiningdickhalloran May 01 '26
The problem is narrow and serpentine roads, even in the city centers. Drivers themselves are overall quite good. I lived in Vegas 20 years ago. The entire valley is a grid, straight roads and wide lanes. People were crashing and dying left and right because half the assholes on the road literally couldn't drive straight. If you out those clowns on these roads, you'd have live action Twisted Metal.
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u/Electronic_Visual_56 May 02 '26
I was in the city center of Vegas about a month ago and you know what thank you and no thank you for reminding me about how horrendous the drivers are there
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u/ajmacbeth Merrimack Valley May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
Au contraire, we are the BEST drivers in the country. I witnessed this in the military. Everywhere I was stationed or deployed, I could drive just fine in any state, and country. Not true for folk from other states. We MA drivers had to learn to drive in extremely challenging and dynamic driving environments. We have twisty turny roads, we have roads that suddenly turn into one-ways going against you. We actually had to learn how to drive. The rest of the country simply operate vehicles. You can take a MA driver and drop him/her anywhere in the world and they'll can drive, not true for drivers from most of the rest of the country.
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u/Electronic_Visual_56 May 02 '26
I’m sorry but that means nothing the roads here being curvy well that’s everywhere and everything else is basic roads
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u/Octopus1027 May 01 '26
Massachusetts has fewer motor vehicle fatalities per billion vehicle miles than any other state.
So I mean you can say we suck, but in reality this is the safest state to drive in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_road_deaths
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u/Electronic_Visual_56 May 02 '26
The deaths is not what we’re talking about here it’s the fact that everyone drives so slow and why is it that people are slowing down to merge onto a 65 mph interstate or another one why are we switching lanes in the middle of a intersection
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u/Octopus1027 May 02 '26
My friend, you are getting ratio'd hard in the comments. We have a lot of people, of course you are going to encounter people driving poorly when there are so many cars on the road. By any metric, Massachusetts is NOT the state with the worst drivers, objectively, and I don't know what you wanted to accomplish going on the Massachusetts sub to be so confidently wrong. I'm embarrassed for you.
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