{"id":17257,"date":"2014-05-16T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.expedia.com\/stories\/?p=17257"},"modified":"2021-10-28T16:39:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T16:39:36","slug":"2014-expedia-road-rage-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expedia.com\/stories\/2014-expedia-road-rage-report\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Expedia Road Rage Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tailgater. The Drifter. The Crawler. What do all these people have in common? No, they aren\u2019t the type of person most likely to hit on you at the local dive bar on a Friday night. Instead, they are the type of drivers who incite the most road rage, at least according to the 2014 Expedia Road Rage Report.<\/span><\/p>\n

We recently teamed up with Northstar to survey 1,001 Americans to identify road trip habits and to analyze the behaviors that most likely elicit road rage. Among the data we divined: 61 percent of survey respondents said they treat their rental car better than their own car (legitimately surprising), and New York City is considered the most road rage-inducing city (duh).<\/p>\n

This information is particularly important at this time of year. Next week, more than 30 million people will hit the road for what\u2019s really the start of summer and road trip season<\/a>, Memorial Day Weekend. If you\u2019re like us, you’ll hit the road after marking off the days on your calendar (and daydreaming about beaches and snow cones and men or women in skimpy bikinis). Still, as our survey revealed, when the amount of drivers hitting the road increases, the amount of courteous driving habits seems to decrease.<\/p>\n

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Details of the survey are fascinating. \u201cThe Texter\u201d is the driver personality that elicits the most rage, with 69 percent of respondents listing it as the most aggravating driving behavior. The top-five list also included Tailgaters (60 percent), Multi-taskers (54 percent), Drifters (43 percent), and Crawlers (39 percent).<\/p>\n

The least annoying road trip behavior? That’d be \u201cThe Red Light Racer,\u201d at 12 percent (of our respondents). You know this person; he or she is the one who inches ever so close to the stoplight when it is red. Oh, and the hardest-to-believe stat from our survey? That only 17 percent of respondents admitted to flipping-off a fellow motorist, but 69 percent of them have been flipped off by someone else.<\/p>\n

All of this information may just add fuel to your fire before you hit the road this summer, so we wanted to leave you with some insight and recommendations as you plan your upcoming road trips.<\/p>\n