Miami tops our list of the worst places to drive in the USA for one very good reason: it has the worst drivers in the country. And we’re not talking just one kind of awful, but a cornucopia of bad driver archetypes.
In Miami you get the aggressive Latin driver in the roaring sports car weaving in and out of traffic at full speed, the tentative old lady in the oversized Buick driving under the speed limit in the left hand lane, the clueless immigrant who sees nothing wrong with parking his junker in the middle of an exit ramp while he looks under the hood, the alpha-jerk in the luxury sports car who thinks allowing another motorist to merge threatens his manhood, the shoulder rider, the tailgater, the joker who backs up when he misses an exit and the clown who slams on his brakes when he sees a cop.
As if this squirming snake pit of recklessness and stupidity was not enough, the nature of Miami’s geographical situation, sandwiched between the Atlantic and the Everglades, means that all of this gets dumped into a narrow corridor that cuts through one of the most densely populated regions in the country, a region whose population nearly doubles from January through April buttressed by yet another member of the bad driver club: the rubbernecking tourist.
Driving in Miami can take years off your life… if you survive the experience long enough to notice.
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