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Does it feel as if your state has it out for drivers? Taxes, tolls, and fees; fines, license suspension, and revocation; beat-up roads, traffic congestion, arcane rules, and bureaucracy - drivers are pummeled at every turn. But it's not the same everywhere. We wanted to know where drivers are treated (relatively) well - and where they're constantly given the shaft. We gathered a raft of data from all fifty states and ran it through a special formula to help quantify the pain. This produced scores in three general areas: Cost, Aggravation, and Harassment. Adding the three together gave us a Total Driver Misery Index, which rates each state on the hostility it shows toward motorists. Maybe in so doing we can encourage states to treat us a little better. If not, at least you'll know exactly how bad you've got it.inline_mediumwraptextright31634943/features/news/1001_rate_the_states_total_driver_misery_index1001_01_z+rate_the_states+illustration.jpgTrue