Drive a Flashy, Expensive Car? You Probably Have No Road Manners
I'm guilty of this. I drive a flashy red car and I'm pretty intolerant of other drivers (but I do stop for pedestrians ). A new study says there are a lot of people like me. And the more expensive the car? The less likely you are to have manners when driving. And that's probably why our roads are so unsafe today. Flashing crosswalk lights are no match for flashy cars, according to a new UNLV study which found that drivers of expensive cars are least likely to stop for crossing pedestrians, newswise.com reports. "Drivers on a whole aren’t all that great at stopping for pedestrians waiting at crosswalks: Of 461 cars that researchers examined, only 28 percent yielded," the web site explains. But the cost of the car was a significant predictor of driver yielding, with the odds that they’ll stop decreasing by 3 percent per $1,000 increase in the car’s value. Researchers estimated the cost of each car using pricing categories from Kelley Blue Book. ...