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If you spend any amount of time behind the wheel, the results of a recent national drivers test should scare you, reports Kevin Ransom in a piece for AOL Autos. In late May, GMAC Insurance reported that nearly 1 in 5 drivers—or about 38 million Americans—could not pass a written drivers test if they took it today.
That’s according to the insurer’s annual National Drivers Test survey, which was conducted by polling 5,202 licensed drivers from 50 states and the District of Columbia. The survey posed 20 questions that were culled from various state Department of Motor Vehicles exams.
The general upshot of the results is that a shocking number of licensed American drivers continue to demonstrate a woeful lack of knowledge when it comes to the basic rules of the road: