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That’s the question the Travel Channel is taking on the road for its new reality show (and a new low for TV): “America’s Worst Driver.” You know that saying about not being able to look away from a car crash? Well, now you’ll get to watch lots of car crashes. And rewind them, pause, get up and use the bathroom, saunter over to the refrigerator and, yes, flip on the slo-mo—all from the comfort of your home.
A casting call on the Travel Channel’s website says that the predictably ill-fated show will “determine which city boasts America’s worst driver. Each week a number of bad drivers from a particular city will compete in a series of driving challenges designed to ferret out that city’s worst driver.” (Whereas, here at Mother Jones, we’re all about safe driving—and even hypermiling.) At the end of it all, the winners (or is it the losers?) from New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Dallas, Seattle, and San Francisco will battle it out for the title in what I can only hope is a Demolition Derby-meets-bad-cable-TV showdown.
So, MoJo reader, which city do you think has the worst drivers in America? After a summer spent dodging cabbies, errant tourists, and indifferent New Yorkers in Manhattan, my vote goes to New York.
