If you owns luxury cars, please do not be offended by the following content, because this is only an academic research and there is no definite conclusion that who must be what.
A 2012 study by Prof. Piff from the Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley indicates that, based on the 274 samples they acquired from Bay Area local road, they found that the higher the vehicle’s status (more luxury), the higher percentage among them that cut off other vehicles at the four-way intersection with stop signs on all sides, and also higher percentage that cut off pedestrians at a crosswalk.
Here is the paper that published on PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), which is source from PNAS official website. The paper’s authors also show a live photo series that a BMW failed to yield the pedestrian, during the project study.
We all know there is one more discussion that the paper should be able to conduct, but did not appear in the final version: among the “higher status” vehicles that are rude, which brand ranks the first percentage-wise?
Prof. Piff did not tell us in his paper, but in a later review with the New York Times, he told the reporter: it is BMW. Quoting his word: “BMW drivers were the worst”. You can view the NT Times article here, or download the PDF version here.
Again, please do not be offended by the research paper, because it is only takes sample from one area in US, and the sample quantity is still relatively small.
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