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I'm guessing you haven't driven I-4 in Florida. Rated multiple times as the most dangerous stretch of highway in the US. People just change lanes without indicating or even looking. It's crazy.
https://www.bcmillerlaw.com/posts/interstate-4-in-florida-tops-list-of-deadliest-u-s-highways/
The most frustrating drivers I've ever encountered, however, were in the Northern Virginia/DC area. So much entitlement. People stopping their cars in all sorts of places where you're not supposed to, putting their hazards on as though that makes parking anywhere legal. Driving aggressively. Just generally entitled, crappy drivers (maybe because the population is so heavily made up of immigrants from countries with different rules--just a guess).
I've been through most of the US at this point and lived in a handful of states. Those two are the worst. LA sucks, too, but that's mostly because of traffic.
I-4 was much easier to drive for me than I-95 in Miami. I have never seen worse drivers.
Yup I4 is bad but Miami is brutal. In Miami a turn signal is a .25 second warning to get out of the way. (Lifelong central Florida resident)
Sounds like Atlanta. As does everything else you list. Couldn't say if it happens at a higher rate elsewhere though.
I lived in LA (admittedly 20 years ago) and the traffic was bad, but the one thing that made up for it was that people who drove like assholes also knew what they were doing. They don’t leave a cushion so if you want to get over, you have to force it, and you have to know exactly how much you can get away with. Don’t get me wrong, there were certainly accidents, but fewer than I would have expected given the population. No data though; this is just my memory. It’s probably different now.