San Francisco, along with all the major cities along its regional network of highways, just caught a gigantic break.

GasBuddy just released its annual Aggressive Driving Study of the driving habits in the country’s 30 largest metropolitan areas from November through February and — who knows how — San Francisco drivers somehow ended up way down the list at No. 5, which is either a huge typo or else the crew doing the survey were smoking something. Related Articles You kill it, you grill it? New California bill would let drivers legally eat roadkill

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Those of us who drive these insane roads every day, who suffer the slings of speeders and the arrows of aggressive drivers who never met a tailgate they didn’t love, know full well that the Bay Area — hands down! — has the worst drivers in the nation. We know it because we see it every morning. We know it because we’re reading this as we sit on the Interstate 880 parking lot, going nowhere because some idiot was driving recklessly to get somewhere so that now none of us are going anywhere.

At the top of GasBuddy’s list is Los Angeles, followed by Philadelphia, Sacramento and Atlanta. Then, and only then, do we get to San Francisco, a 49-square-mile city whose streets that in recent years has become Dante’s Tenth Circle of Hell, making all those other circle seem like kids’ stuff.

The top three on the list, according to the study, has drivers who are 21 percent more aggressive than the average driver in the United States.

“Honking, squeaking brakes and bumper-to-bumper traffic are common problems in many of America’s congested cities,” according to GasBuddy. “Frustrated drivers can get agitated quickly, and their aggressive driving habits like speeding, rapid acceleration and braking can lower gas mileage by as much as 40 percent.”

We don’t really worry about gas prices here in the Bay Area, which has some of the highest pump prices in the nation. We care more about simply making it to the gas station alive!

Here’s the Top 10 list, with drivers ranked on how many stupid things they do behind the wheel, from speeding to hard braking or tail-gating to accelerating, all things we Bay Area drivers are really good at:

Los Angeles Philadelphia Sacramento Atlanta San Francisco San Diego Orlando Detroit Austin Las Vegas

“Frustration while driving in densely populated cities with high levels of congestion leads motorists to drive more aggressively and with more urgency. Interestingly, these are areas that typically see some of the highest gas prices in their respective states,” said Patrick DeHaan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy. “With drivers in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Sacramento and Atlanta being 20 percent more aggressive than the average driver in America, it’s particularly important for commuters and rideshare drivers in these areas to work on shedding their lead foot and relax more to keep money from flying out the window each time they hit the road.”

Last year’s Aggressive Driving Study looked the states with the most aggressive drivers. Seven of the top 10 cities with the most aggressive drivers from this year’s study are within the top 10 states with the most aggressive drivers, including California, Georgia, Texas and Florida.

And here are some additional findings from the study: