"America’s Worst Driver" set to air on Travel Channel
Filed under: Etc., Celebrities
We know some habitually bad drivers, and we’re guessing you do too. Problem is, there isn’t much we can do to keep them off the road until their license is taken away. Thanks to a new show on Travel Channel, we at least have an opportunity to humiliate them, or perhaps more.
The new program, called “America’s Worst Driver,” airs Sunday night at 10 PM Eastern and Pacific Time and is hosted by Last Comic Standing Season 3 winner Alonzo Bodden. It looks for the four worst drivers from a city, as nominated by their friends and family, to compete for the dubious title. But there is more than a mean moniker at stake here, folks. The loser from each city, or the worst of the chronically bad lot, will have his or her car crushed (by Carasaurus no less) and replaced with a bicycle and a bus pass. Ouch. The “loser” from each city visited by the show will also be flown to Los Angeles to compete for the title of “America’s Worst Driver.” The finalists will then compete against one another for the chance to win a new car. Hopefully that vehicle will have plenty of air bags.
The new show has reportedly already shot episodes in New York, Miami, Dallas, Chicago and San Francisco, and the competition reportedly includes a closed course driving test graded by a real live police officer. We don’t know about you, but we wouldn’t go on any show where there is a one in four chance of having our vehicle crushed. But if we were so bad at driving that we failed a worst driver competition, maybe it would be for the best.
[Source: Travel Channel via Kicking Tires]
“America’s Worst Driver” set to air on Travel Channel originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.