What a farce!

Agreed, no excuse for easy road tests these days (Mass insurance premiums should prove this!)

Is it any surprise that Boston driving is widely regarded to be amongst the worst in the country?

I actually had this conversation with a friend of mine who moved to Boston from New York City. He hit the nail on the head: Drivers in Mass aren't necessarily "bad." There's just too many of them, is a small area, on a poorly laid out road-system (i.e. they simply paved the cow paths and called them streets.)

The best example it the pattented Mass "intersection creep" They way he put it was that "in NYC there would eventually be a break in the traffic and you could merge in a relatively short amount of time. In Mass/Boston it doesn't take long to realize that unless you poke your nose out into the traffic you could be there for a while!"