Your blog today, come on man. You can’t lump VA drivers based on Fairfax County. That’s Northern VA… that’s DC-light. It’s transplants from other places. They may have VA tags but their histories and lineage are not Old Dominion. And they may not even be a majority of the drivers on the roads but it’s enough of them that THEY are what you notice.

– Ben from Lynchburg, via email.

This is a fair point. When I said “Virginia drivers,” I should have said “Northern Virginia drivers.” But I promise, it was actually the majority of them that were looking at other things besides the road. I’m only going by empirical evidence and about a 50-car sample, but this is hardly the first time I’ve noticed the area vehicular obliviousness.