{"id":9463,"date":"2020-01-21T18:34:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T18:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=9463"},"modified":"2020-01-21T18:34:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T18:34:17","slug":"report-ranks-best-and-worst-states-to-drive-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/report-ranks-best-and-worst-states-to-drive-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Report ranks best and worst states to drive in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The states with the best and worst driving experiences have been revealed in a new report released by WalletHub.<\/p>\n<p>The following factors were taken into consideration in determining the best and worst states: cost of ownership and maintenance, traffic and infrastructure, safety, and access to vehicles and maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>In relation to safety, the report evaluated multiple metrics including traffic indiscipline, share of adults who always or nearly always wear a seatbelt, traffic fatality rate, strictness of DUI punishment, driving laws, share of uninsured drivers and animal loss claims per total number of drivers.<\/p>\n<p>The best state overall was revealed as Iowa, followed by Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas and Nebraska. The worst states were (from bottom) Hawaii, Rhode Island, Washington, California and Colorado.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-worst-states-to-drive-in\/43012\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View the report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The states with the best and worst driving experiences have been revealed in a new report released by WalletHub. The following factors were taken into consideration in determining the best and worst states: cost of ownership and maintenance, traffic and infrastructure, safety, and access to vehicles and maintenance. In relation to safety, the report evaluated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":9464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}