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Automobile Insurance Firm's Survey Defines Drivers by Habits.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2003
By Rick Popely, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 3--CHICAGO--Motorists who venture onto a Chicago-area expressway may wonder at times whether they made a wrong turn and wound up on the German Autobahn, where rural sections have no speed limit.
Despite a posted limit of 55 m.p.h., most vehicles on Chicago's expressways zip along at 70 or faster, and those who obey the law stand out as rolling roadblocks.
However, only 17 percent of drivers surveyed recently by Allstate Insurance Co. admitted to being "fast" or "aggressive," a group Allstate calls the Auto-Bahners, the ones for whom driving means excitement.
Nearly two-thirds of Auto-Bahners are male, and they list their average highway cruising speed as...
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