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January 01, 2004

Driving in America

Just to jump on the driving thing. First, I have to say that VW owns my brain and it's easy to see why.First the Touareg, now this.

NYC
It's all about accelleration here. Respect the red light, but floor it when it turns green. Compete with all pedestrians for every inch. Peds beware, especially if somebody is trying to make a right turn. Lane changes on the drop of the dime. Parking is impossible so you might as well forget it.

LA
The most important thing about driving in LA is having a good stereo, because you ain't moving anywhere fast. LA drivers are respectful of pedestrians, but we will snake parking places at the drop of a hat. Almost nobody cheats on the diamond lanes except on onramps.

Boston
Cow path city all grown up. I'll just say this, Boston is the scene of the most extraordinary driving behavior I've ever witnessed. A boxed in driver of a pickup mashing the gas and pushing the car behind him 10 yards backwards up onto the sidewalk. A schoolbus doing 70, with kids, in the breakdown lane.

Houston
They. Drive. Slow.
except for the motorcycles.

Atlanta
They. Drive. Fast. and run over the motorcycles.

Everybody else is normal. I think.

Posted by mbowen at January 1, 2004 01:42 PM

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