Highway planners gone wild - or have they?

The Onion reports that the Department of Transport was spending $270 billion on lanes for reckless drivers - it turns out that was all a big joke, the reality is instead they decided to just send all those crappy drivers to my home town Oakland, California. Seriously, does anyone else think their town has the world's worst drivers, or is it just me? My partner noticed that I've now taken to driving with my thumbs on the horn buttons of my steering wheel. It's not defensive driving - only once in my 24 years of driving have I been able to use a horn defensively and it didn't work (the SUV still backed right into me) - I just figure if someone runs a red light, stop sign or does something crazy in front of me I'm going to let them know because I'm sick of people pretending they are driving just fine. I'll admit that I'm not a perfect driver but if someone honks me when I've done something wrong I'll admit it - embarrassed by my mistake I'll even take the finger or whatever they throw at me (although living Oakland I'd rather it was not fast moving lead from a Glock).