Cities Ranked for Best and Worst Driving
15 Sep 2015Unless you are able to take public transit, or bike or walk to school, work or wherever else you wish to go, it’s necessary to commute by car. For a lot of us, this means we are on the road almost 200 hours, and the average American driver is stuck in traffic 38 hours a year.
If you live in Seattle, that number goes up to 63, and if you live and work and Los Angeles, well, surprise, surprise, you spend an average of 90 hours a year stuck in traffic.
If you were to add up the costs of fuel and wasted time because of US road traffic congestion, you would come up with a $124 billion annually collective total or around $1700 for each household, according to WalletHub.
In order to find these areas, the 100 most populated US cities were ranked through WalletHub based on the costs of owning a car and commuting in regards to money, time and safety including environment for recreational drivers. WalletHub’s comparison included 21 main metrics consisting of average yearly traffic delays, average gas prices, car clubs per capita, and rates of car theft, and more.
In its ‘Best 7 Worst US Cities to Be a Driver’ study, New York landed last place due to its poor road conditions and traffic, while Texas (Lubbock and Corpus Christi) took the leading two spots as the leading driver-friendly cities.
With regards to the highest rate of car thefts, Missouri, St. Louis, and Ohio took the lead with the rate of car thefts being 27 times higher in Detroit than that of Irvine, California. Philadelphia, PA and San Francisco, CA were most likely to get into an accident when compared with the national average.
In another study, this one from Allstate, drivers in Kansas city were nearly 25 percent less likely to be involved in a car accident than the typical American. On the other hand, Bostonian drivers landed the unwelcome number one spot as the most crash-prone drivers, again though according to the Allstate study.
To help out with these statistics, businesses with fleets should consider GPS fleet tracking, which can help recover a stolen vehicle and improve driver behavior, including curtailing speeding.
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