Driving too fast, tailgating, making cellphone calls while driving, making obscene gestures to other drivers — according to a national survey, no one does these things more than metro Atlanta drivers.

Those were the findings of a 2,500-person survey that deemed Atlanta overall the sixth-least-courteous driving city in the United States.

Miami achieved the three-peat, topping the survey performed for AutoVantage, an auto club, for the third year. Following Miami were Boston, New York, Baltimore and Washington.

Two Gwinnett County driving instructors were not surprised.

Lonny Dykema, owner of a Snellville driving school, said he asks students how many of them have either had a gun pointed at them or been shot at in traffic or had been in a car where that happened.

"It's not at all uncommon to have several people in the class who have had that experience," Dykema said.

Dorene Taylor, an instructor at Dykema's Risk Reduction & Defensive Driving Schools, said students in her classes tell her they have to drive fast because if they slow down, other cars will get ahead of them and they'll be late. "I'm like, 'What, [late by] one car length?'" Taylor said. "The attitude is, 'Get out of my way. I have my blinders on. I don't care who's in my way.' "

Atlanta jumped six spots from last year in the 25-city survey, in which about 100 drivers in each of the cities were surveyed by phone. In the survey, 11 percent of Atlanta drivers admitted to driving too closely to the car in front of them, the highest percentage of all cities surveyed.

Also, Atlanta drivers ranked first among all cities in confessing to the following driving sins:

• Driving a lot faster than they should every day (22 percent);

• Talking every day on the cellphone while driving (35 percent);

• Making an obscene gesture at another driver in the last month (14 percent).