Experts at GasBuddy say aggressive driving during the holiday season is unsafe and can cost you more money at the pump due to lower fuel efficiency.
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00:00 The highways will soon be packed with millions of holiday travelers and all that traffic
00:04 could lead to dangerous driving.
00:06 AccuWeather's Bill Waddell shows us the cities with the nicest and naughtiest drivers.
00:13 It's not just presents and pies packed in the car for holiday road trips.
00:17 Stress, nerves and more traffic can lead to aggressive driving.
00:22 People don't realize that driving behavior is the number one impact on vehicles fuel
00:26 efficiency.
00:27 Patrick DeHaan with GasBuddy says rapid acceleration, speeding and hard braking is not only unsafe,
00:35 it's costing drivers more money.
00:37 If you're always pedaled to the metal, your fuel efficiency could go from say 30 miles
00:41 a gallon or 25 all the way down to 10 or 15, especially with more cylinders.
00:46 You're probably ending up paying another 50 cents to a dollar a gallon because you're
00:51 not using your vehicles fuel efficiently.
00:54 Data collected from the GasBuddy app from millions of road trips over Thanksgiving led
00:59 to the naughty and nice list.
01:01 The most aggressive holiday drivers are in Tucson, Nashville, Orlando, Jacksonville and
01:07 New Orleans.
01:08 It's a lot of areas that have seen population booms in recent years where people are probably
01:13 feeling stressed.
01:14 A lot of these are warmer weather areas where we see snowbirds or tourism.
01:19 The least aggressive holiday drivers are in Minneapolis, Providence, Portland, Seattle
01:25 and Cleveland.
01:26 Colder weather climates, less traffic, less people getting out.
01:29 With gas prices dropping and calm weather in the holiday travel forecast in many areas,
01:35 Patrick DeHaan is expecting even more people to be on the roads this year.
01:39 29 states are seeing average gas prices below $3 and travel conditions may be pretty good
01:46 for the holidays.
01:47 That's probably giving people more reason to hit the road because they don't have to
01:49 worry about snow or blizzards or colder weather.
01:53 Or acuweather.
01:54 Underwaddle.
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