Nicest and naughtiest cities for holiday driving

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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