Jun 02 2008
NJ drivers are the nation’s (all time) dumbest
John Cichowski of The Record recently reported “Welcome to the stupid driver state”
With the warm-weather driving season under way, GMAC Insurance has confirmed our worst suspicions: New Jersey’s 6.2 million licensed drivers are the nation’s dumbest. The big auto insurer came to this conclusion after giving an online test to 5,524 drivers from the 50 states and Washington, D.C. (gmacinsurance.com/SafeDriving). Most questions came from state driving exams.
We didn’t simply flunk this test. We came in 51st — dead last — even worse than the drivers we love to ridicule in Washington, D.C. (50th), New York (49th) and Massachusetts (48th). This failure rate is more than embarrassing. It’s historic. In the four years that GMAC has been giving these tests, no state has scored lower than 69.9 percent correct answers — our score this year.
The stupid driver state? I know that you tested a little over 5,500 people to draw this conclusion and in all fairness our Governor doesn’t wear a seat belt and almost died in an accident. Fellow New Jerseans unite and together we can overcome this label. When we rank 50 next year we can flip GMAC the bird.
I don’t know what is more embarrassing the fact that we were the worst in the nation scoring the all time lowest score or that someone actually authorized expenditure for this type of ridiculous survey. Sounds like a ploy to raise my insurance rates, what do you take me for, a fool?
Unbelievable! Do you happen to know where I could see the actual list. Fun post though, good for a monday morning.
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Here you go:
http://gmacinsurance.com/SafeD.....nkings.asp
Enjoy!
5,524 drivers from all states? It’s not too much, only 110 drivers per state. This statistics can hardly be called reliable.