I actually prefer them to shut up so I can focus on the road....and besides, the more questions they ask, the stranger the questions get......I've driving here in the midwest and Midwesterners tend to be very nosy and inquisitive in a bad way....Midwesterners like to ask questions like they doing an INVESTIGATION on you....they don't ask questions like normal sane ppl do....they ask questions like they're doing a background check on you like you've committed a crime or something.

I actually like passengers from other regions of the U.S asking me questions because their questions seem to genuine....Midwesterners tend to ask questions that make you wonder their motives....