New Study Suggests Listening to Metal Might Make You a Bad Driver

Can music affect how well you drive? Sure it can. For example, if I was ever forced to drive while listening to Imagine Dragons, I’d drive into a telephone pole and end it all. But apparently the genre of music you listen to while driving can have some correlation on how well you drive. And, according to a new study, heavy metal may make you a worse driver overall.  

The study comes from Extreme Terrain Off-Road Outfitters, which is a retailer that sells Jeep parts and accessories. So, admittedly, this isn’t exactly a Gallup poll or a Harvard University study. Still, they polled 1,000 American drivers and came up with some interesting results. They determined which genres were most likely to correlate with certain bad driving behaviors, and people who listen to metal while driving were found to be more like to honk at others, run red lights, get a DUI, and get into a major crash. This all comes despite metal being the second least preferred genre to listen to while driving, with classical coming in last.

There were a few other interesting findings in the findings, as hip-hop listeners are most likely to tailgate other cars, podcast listeners are most likely to text while driving and get in a fender bender, and EDM listeners are most likely to drive more than 15 miles over the speed limit. Perhaps the funniest finding was that 23% of people who listen to Joe Rogan’s podcast experienced road rage which, yeah, no shit because they’re listening to some dumbass overgrown 12-year-old who thinks that the transgender activists are lighting forest fires to control the weather or some other dumb shit he pulled out of his ass.

I doubt the findings of this study are going to stop any of our readers—or me, for that matter—from listening to heavy metal music loudly while driving. But maybe we should all keep this in mind and be a little more careful when we drive while blasting the latest from 200 Stab Wounds.