Dallas drivers be like..

I drive that all the time, doesn’t come close to how I felt on I-20, or some parts of 75. Or even just on streets around highland park, oak lawn or university park.

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lost_in_trepidation@reddit

75 between Lovers and the split is true Mad Max

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I-5 was comparable to I-45 on spring break with the bumper to bumper and stop and go traffic. But that was my fault. I knew about the spring breakers weeks ahead of time and I still decided to drive down on my day off.

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Advanced_Olive_1830@reddit

Dallas is worse… can you even find a source for that? Everywhere I looked, Google, articles, and Reddit have Houston in the top 10 or 5 worst traffic. Nowhere does it show or say Dallas. Plus Houston has 1+ million more people in the city than Dallas. Don't even mention the “metro” because 90% of the population doesn't even drive to downtown/Dallas

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Souledex@reddit

Not in terms of traffic overall, in terms of how reckless drivers are that was my personal experience.

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Advanced_Olive_1830@reddit

I guess I am irritated because being stuck in Houston traffic today for two hours and the same as last week and both were due to an accident. Every day it’s over an hour waiting and Traffic is mainly bc people are driving recklessly and it also leads to road rage. I’m getting out of here the first chance I get.

Source: https://www.reyeslaw.com/road-rage-capitals/#:~:text=%231%20Houston%2C%20Texas&text=Houston%20ranks%20as%20the%20U.S.,road%20incidents%20and%20violent%20altercations.

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sarahbeth124@reddit

Recently visited Houston, I’d say it’s worse there than Dallas, but both are pretty unhinged

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rat_penis@reddit

Houston is where Dallas drivers go to feel like every visitor to Dallas feels.

I drive like an asshole, I loved it down there.

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rabidwolf86@reddit

😆 🤣 im not stuck in here with you, you're stuck in here with me mentality

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AffectionateKey7126@reddit

Houston drivers all act as if they're actively being chased by a police helicopter when only like 5% of them are.

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Just_One_Victory@reddit

many are

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Danilo-11@reddit

The other day I saw a guy doing a u-turn (in Houston) with his Tesla, in auto pilot, and he had both hands behind his head.

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PhoenixAquarium@reddit

Relearning how to drive after 9 months was nerve racking. I made the mistake of driving on 45 to work. It took weeks to readjust but nothing happened so I am glad.

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ChefMikeDFW@reddit

45 is the very definition of insanity and is so long, you'd swear downtown Houston is only 5 minutes away as the hours go on and on.

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Apprehensive_Fly9425@reddit

Come to New Orleans 🙃

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Status-Elderberry750@reddit

The problem with Dallas drivers is that every driver believes they have the right of way. My lane is ending? I have the right of way. I have a red light? I still have the right of way.

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ultimatejourney@reddit

RIP anyone not in a car/truck

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ZodiacDragons@reddit

My city's traffic is worse than your city's traffic!

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Visible_Brain1620@reddit

Haven’t been in Austin lately?

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emiTfOgnoS@reddit

Definitely easier to avoid collisions when traffic can only go 5 mph

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StankoMicin@reddit

Exactly.

Tbh there is not need to be able to blast down a highway at 80 mph

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GhostPartical@reddit

80 is the standard speed limit on the autobahn.

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yolodogswag@reddit

German autobahn has no speed limit. Germany also has one of the hardest and most difficult driving tests in the world with 37-39% failure rate. Their physical driving test is 55 minutes long and nealry half the people that take it fail their first time. In Texas, they hand out driver's license like candy on halloween to anyone with a pulse.

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GhostPartical@reddit

German Autobahn absolutely has speed limits. And even in areas where a speed limit isn't posted, there is still a limit if you get in an accident that will put you at fault, which is 130kh or 80mph. And Im fully aware of the tests as it took me 3 times to pass it. I lived there for 7 years and had a license.

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yolodogswag@reddit

1 google search

"About 60–70% of the German Autobahn network has no strict speed limit, instead, it has a recommended speed of 130 km/h(81 mph). On these unrestricted sections, there is no maximum speed, though you must remain in control of your vehicle.

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GhostPartical@reddit

Sorry, Google search doesn't supersede actual experience and knowledge of the laws. As I stated, I lived there for 7 years and carried a license. Also, the 60-70% range is wrong, more 30-40%.

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rob2722@reddit

“How much signal I need to cut across 8 lanes? None? I turn now! Good luck everybody else!” proceeds to kamikaze their way over on 635

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ObviouslyLuke@reddit

Literally the reason I was late to work today

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Snobolski@reddit

If you use your signal, someone will cut off your move out of spite.

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AnastasiaNo70@reddit

I am CACKLING so hard I’m choking.

My God. My dog was worried for me for a second. Whew.

Having JUST seen someone do that on LBJ yesterday, this hit especially hard.

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seaspirit331@reddit

"I don't recall saying good luck"

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txt214@reddit

Bwhahahaha was think this same thing from Family Guy

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NotMyRealAccountV@reddit

When Dallas meets Austin around Giddings you have 85 in the right lane and 55 in the left..

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jaydickchest@reddit

Lived in Austin for like, 8 years, pre tech boom. Houston for 0-18, so limited driving, and now recently, Dallas. Dallas is far worse. I have five or six car repair shops in a square mile next to me in Plano

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86Sliva94@reddit

Most drivers are too busy texting or talking on their phone in hand. No excuses to hold a phone and drive 2026. So many different Bluetooth devices to use!

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telehealthdialtone@reddit

My grandfather was a ww2 fighter pilot if you couldn’t tell

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Agitated-Sea6800@reddit

This is so accurate! When did become normal to tailgate someone and flash high beams when they are going the 5 miles over the sled limit. I see that crap every single day. I bet they have an outward facing camera incase the get brake checked.

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rapid-succession@reddit

Lived in Houston, Austin, and Dallas.

Houston is another level of madness that makes Dallas feel like it has bumpers on the highway.

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oh-kee-pah@reddit

Dude YES. I'd also like to suggest deleting Austin from the top of this and making it like....Carmel or something. Austin driving is absolutely insane.

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1337lupe@reddit

imho, Austin is crazier than Dallas. I remember one year 3 cars taking over the interstate and zig zagging across the lanes together causing a massive traffic jam and generally terrorizing anyone near them. I had never seen anything like that before in my life

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oh-kee-pah@reddit

6 in one hand, half dozen in the other for me 😂

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rapid-succession@reddit

It is definitely specific to the individual and their experiences in the region. I only spent 5 years in Austin and most of it was highway travel for work. All 3 are ridiculous, which I'm sure we could all agree.

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

At least Austinites have a slight sense of “we’re all in this hell together”. A little bit of acknowledgment that they’re not the only one on the road who matters.

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rapid-succession@reddit

Because Austin has a population that is not afraid of walking around. This was the 1 major difference from the cities. I had to be way more mindful of bikers, strollers, and day/night walkers at all hours.

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AnastasiaNo70@reddit

YES. My husband worked in Houston for 3 years and they paid for an apartment for him. I only visited him three times in three years. I’m a lifelong Dallasite, but that Houston driving is on another level.

It’s like Arkansas Ignorant Driving + Boston Aggression = H-TOWN

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StarWarsPlusDrWho@reddit

I almost texted this meme to my work group chat and then I remembered that my coworker literally got hit by a car last week. (He’s fine but injured)

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AgentBlue14@reddit

BANZAI (as I weave into traffic on Loop 12 northbound to make the Shady Grove exit for my daily Braum's dose).

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Complete_Buy_6195@reddit

At least the Kamikaze pilots did it for a (albeit misguided) cause. Dallas drivers just do it for the love of the game.

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Hyperbeastking@reddit

Moved to North Dallas area last May from Austin, I was not expecting 90 to be the general minimum

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v4por@reddit

Speak for yourself. 30 years driving here and not a single accident.

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PomeloPepper@reddit

Once you start thinking of driving as a competitive sport everything will be so much clearer. And fun.

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bepeacock@reddit

everyone everywhere thinks that all the other drivers in their area are the worst.

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

Texas really has some of the worst drivers in the US. A mix of outdated infrastructure and a “me first” over-individualistic mentality. It’s not good.

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Snobolski@reddit

everyone everywhere thinks that all the other drivers in their area are the worst.

Go to pretty much every city sub and everyone says the same things

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cuberandgamer@reddit

We have the stats to back it up though

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warrior4488@reddit (OP)

I've driven in Seattle, I've seen Austin driving too (in a cab though). Dallas drivers are really something else.

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wannabetmore@reddit

Yep. Every day see them speed thru school zones as there is no cop around. Red lights are ignored as much as in Houston. School busses with stop sign off the side are ignored. You can even press the walk button with flashing lights on Greenville and Henderson and 7 to 10 cars will ignore it before 1 stops. Texans are not friendly despite the ads (and they litter too).

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thedoofimbibes@reddit

I mean yeah. “Don’t Mess With Texas”, “Drive Friendly, The Texas Way”, “Friends Don’t Let Friends Drive Drunk”, other such campaigns to build pride in being Texan and foster a sense of community responsibility were started BECAUSE Texans were disgusting, backwater hicks who littered, drove drunk, shot at each other, and left appliances on the side of the road.

It’s a testament to the power of propaganda to sway stupid people that they worked as well as they did. You should go watch old news archives of interviews with Texans (and southerners in general) bitching about drunk driving laws and how it’s “not their responsibility to keep others safe” etc. It’s eye opening.

Houston has simply kept that old attitude alive and has begun to spread it back to the rest of the state again like a malignant cancer.

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Itchy_Lab6034@reddit

I’ve driven in south beach, Atlanta, and California. Dallas is chill comparatively that’s just insane take

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MisanthropicAnthro@reddit

But insurance adjusters use actual data, and our car insurance more than doubled when we moved back to this area.

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zma924@reddit

While true, I live near Detroit and have spent the last 10 years traveling all over the country for work. People in Detroit drive fast as fuck but traffic flows well until someone only doing 80 camps in the left lane. Dallas genuinely has the worst drivers I’ve ever experienced out of anywhere. I’ve also spent more time in Dallas consecutively but I’ve not been anywhere else where there’s several accidents every time it barely rains.

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brother-ky@reddit

This is somewhat true, but in my anecdotal experience Texas drivers are far worse than Cali (LA) drivers. For the most part, this comes down to how many red light runners I see.

That said, I took a moment to look up some stats. After doing so, what the f*** is going on in South Carolina?

It's probably not quite right - e.g. you have to normalize for % of miles on rural vs not. It's also a 2021 study.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_road_deaths

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Right_Letterhead_120@reddit

Shortly after moving here I heard the following conversation in Plano about a Land Rover.

“Yeah, had it five years, wrecked it twice, great car.“

As if it’s totally normal/acceptable to periodically wreck your car.

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AnastasiaNo70@reddit

🤣🤣🤣

The last car I had was never in a single wreck in the 8 years I owned it and that’s a record for me.

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Right_Letterhead_120@reddit

How many of the accidents were avoidable, but you thought you would make a point?

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StankoMicin@reddit

When I lived in DFW, I was legit terrified anytime I had to brave those highways.

Seattle feels like baby mode in comparison to the point where I'm the asshole driver now..

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Right_Letterhead_120@reddit

Yup. I was a medium-aggressive driver in Los Angeles. VERY defensive here.

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attaboy_stampy@reddit

I feel like the meme maker has not been to Austin in quite some time cause goddam.

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Few-Editor5767@reddit

Austin is just as bad as Dallas. Houston is worse than them both.

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Adultery@reddit

Just a friendly reminder for everyone to make sure their car insurance has uninsured and underinsured motorists coverage

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djsplash23@reddit

In Dallas, you have to be an aggressive driver. In Austin, you have to be a defensive driver. In Houston, you have to be a defensive AND aggressive driver lol.

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DiracFourier@reddit

I know three people that were hit by cars while riding bicycles in Austin

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Snobolski@reddit

You really should visit Austin some time...

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Rortugal_McDichael@reddit

Human drivers suck everywhere.

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Upstairs_Balance_464@reddit

Subreddit for any city: Hey guys aren’t the drivers in city soooooo crazy?

First comment: I see you’ve never been to rival city!

Yuk yuk yuk

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Itchy_Lab6034@reddit

Out of all the places I’ve lived. DFW has the most relaxed driving scene. I think you guys just love to complain

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neoneiro@reddit

Defensive Driving? Offensive Driving.

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Mister-Schwifty@reddit

You were almost there on Austin drivers.

“I have to be careful not to hit anyone with my car, because I’m stoned out of my gourd right now.”

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AnastasiaNo70@reddit

We’re stoned in Dallas, too.

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DoctorOblivious@reddit

No. Absolutely not.

It might be mild childhood trauma from waking up in the middle of a road trip to my father being lost, sleep-deprived, and yelling at some anonymous asshole on I-35S in the Austin area, but my adrenaline spikes just a little bit every time I get remotely close to that portion of I-35. You know the segment: it's where the highway inexplicably breaks into two near downtown, and everyone loses their goddamned minds.

Dallas is just stupid engineering and moderate road rage. Austin and Houston have some bad drugs in their system.

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