A national study that may surprise no one who’s been cut off (or flipped off) in traffic lately finds Atlanta tops the list of aggressive holiday drivers.
"Atlanta drivers (were) 21 percent more aggressive than average U.S. drivers during the holidays," the study, compiled by Gas Buddy, said in its droll intro.
Nashville, Birmingham, Orlando and Raleigh were the other Southern cities on Gas Buddy’s top 10. California was well-represented, with Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. No. 10 was Hartford, Conn.
Here's the complete list of what GasBuddy euphemistically titled the nation's "Scroogiest Drivers During the Holidays."
“Peace and good-will towards other drivers will go a long way this holiday season, ” Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, said in a statement. “Not only is road rage dangerous, it guzzles any extra holiday savings by reducing fuel efficiency, which makes driving like a Scrooge wasteful and expensive.”
In other not-shocking news, this isn't our first time on this sort of list.
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Credit: JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM
GasBuddy is an app that uses crowdsourcing helps drivers find the least expensive spots to fill up. The aggressive driver study also relied on user input.
“The findings were compiled using data from GasBuddy’s optional, opt-in Drives Feature in the GasBuddy app that offers drivers an assessment of their driving habits during their trip in an effort to improve fuel efficiency, mapping out when and where a poor driving habit occurred,” the company explained in a release. The findings studied the nation’s 50 biggest metro areas from Nov. 27 through Dec. 1 and were compiled “noting the frequency of an aggressive driving event while driving, whether it be speeding, hard braking or accelerating.”
Credit: JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM
Credit: JOHN SPINK / JSPINK@AJC.COM
