Bad Drivers Beware: You can now be tagged online

It seems there’s never a cop around when someone is driving recklessly on the highways of America. But thanks to Drivers-Ratings.com, those crummy drivers can be brought before the court of online public opinion.

Tag bad and good drivers at this new website.

If you travel by car, you’ve seen them in all 50 states. I’m talking about the drivers who are out on the roads weaving in and out of traffic, endangering themselves and others. People who seem to have never read the driver’s manual, yet venture out onto the highways daily, causing fender-benders and raising stress and blood-pressure levels two and three lanes at a time. People who drive huge SUVs, but who always end up taking two parking spaces because they can’t seem to park within the lines. How did these people ever pass a driving test?

You honk, you curse, and you probably even fire off a single-digit salute, but without a police officer around to issue a ticket to these disastrous drivers, what else can you do?

Thanks to a new website, you can finally get some satisfaction.

Vent your road rage online

Driver-Ratings.com allows users to vent their road rage by posting license plate numbers and comments about good or bad drivers on the road. The goal is to reduce road rage and let drivers save their fury for the keyboard.

Here’s how it works:  Users can go to the website and search for drivers by entering a license plate number and state. They may then read previous ratings about the driver, or can enter their own rating by checking the driver as “good” or “bad” and leave a comment about their experience. Users may also upload photos of bad parking jobs as well as video uploads to further document their story. Safety is the No.1 priority of the website and urges users not to use the site while driving.

Digital complaints, not single-digit complaints

The Department of Transportation states that most of the approximately 6 million car accidents each year are caused by irresponsible driving behavior. While the site doesn’t claim to replace the authority of local police and the Department of Motor Vehicles, it allows drivers an alternative means to confront bad drivers without a physical altercation resulting in violence.

The website has received over 75,000 license plate ratings since its beta launch two months ago with around 70 percent of the ratings being positive. Still, there are some pretty hilarious comments about bad drivers:

About a bad driver in California: “If you kid is an honor student, perhaps they can teach you how to drive.”

About a bad driver in Texas: “This person drives their car likes it’s a weapon.”

About a naked driver in Washington: “We drove past him and I was like ‘Is that guy naked??’ and my roommate was like ‘No, he probably has shorts on.’ Nope.”

So, when you encounter a miserable motorist, direct your road rage from the highway to the information superhighway at www.driver-ratings.com.

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   Stephen says:

   July 7, 2011 at 1:45 am

   Genius! Used it twice today already!!!

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