Indore, Lucknow, Hyderabad have most 'good' drivers, says survey; find your city's rank

A city-based map of India that shows the percentage of good, average, and bad drivers in 22 cities across the country has been created by self-drive car rental company Zoomcar and HERE Technologies. As per their survey, Indore in Madhya Pradesh has the highest percentage of good drivers while Karnataka’s Mysuru tops in the bad drivers’ category.

The top three cities with the highest number of good drivers are Indore (35.4%), Lucknow, (33.2%) and Hyderabad (33.1%). Bhubaneshwar (Odisha) is fourth with 29.7% followed by Kochi (29%).

Indore has 11.1% bad drivers and 53.5% average drivers. The bad and average drivers percentage for Lucknow stand at 8% and 58.8% respectively. For Hyderabad, it is 7% (bad) and 60% (average).

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Chennai sixth

When it comes to bad drivers, the top cities are Mysuru (18.5%) and Ahmedabad (14.8%), followed by Bengaluru (14%). Jaipur is at the fourth place with 14% and at the fifth spot is Visakhapatnam (12.6%). Chennai is sixth with 12.3% bad drivers.

Mysuru has 15.1% good drivers and 66.4% average drivers, according to the survey. Ahmedabad has 22.9% good drivers and 62.3% average drivers. Bengaluru has 19.3% good and 66.7% average drivers.

The map was created based on data from Zoomcar’s proprietary driver scoring system, between November 2020 and November 2021, a press release from HERE Technologies, a location data and technology platform, said.

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Source: Zoomcar and HERE Technologies’ survey

A report by the World Bank suggested that road crash deaths in India are among the highest in the world, with 53 road crashes every hour, killing one person every four minutes, it added.

Scoring method

Explaining the methodology used to rate the drivers, the company said, “To increase road user and driver safety, as well as monitor the conditions of its vehicle fleet across India, Zoomcar utilises close to 200 million data points – vehicle speed, engine speed, acceleration, brake, battery and tire life, and more – daily from its vehicles to develop a scoring system that measures the driving performance of its drivers.”

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It added, “External factors not within the control of the driver – bad weather and traffic – are also considered. With that, the smoother one drives, the higher the driver’s score will be. Drivers who score more than 65 are considered good drivers, while those who score under 50 are considered bad drivers.”

Greg Moran, co-founder and CEO of Zoomcar said, “The data generated from our vehicles provides us insights into understanding driving patterns. From the data, we created the driving scoring system to measure driving behaviour and incentivise our drivers to drive better.”