Last year things really escalated here. Between the never ending and always expanding construction, price rises and whatnot, everyone is pissed off all the time.
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I've certainly seen an increase in people driving oversized cars. Those are rude and dangerous even if the drivers tried to drive defensively. It's the physical embodiment of "fuck you, I got mine".
Might be a couple of reasons. Corvid, economic downturn, political turmoil. People are just more stressed - and rightfully so, as the world is a clown show, currently.
Yeah people seem more self centered now. They always have to go first even when pedestrians have the right of way. At least that's what I've seen.
I've noticed an uptick in people that drive with their high beams on over the last 5+ years
Both of my cars turn on high beams automatically on dark roads when they can't see other vehicles
The not as good at it as me though, the cars don't see the headlights of an oncoming car illuminating the side of the road, they need to see the headlight directly
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Likely just the increasing brightness of the bulbs. Lots of times I will assume someone has high beams on only to see them flick even brighter once I go past them.
I've thought about that, but it's not too hard to tell when the light cluster has both on at the same time (not the fog lights)
I've seen dozens of different light cluster designs, I don't think you can visually tell unless you're familiar with the car in question and they haven't gotten aftermarket lights.
Generally they're all within the main light cluster. Fog lights are towards the bottom. It's much more apparent on older cars than newer ones I will admit.
The high beams are also closer to the center on basically all extant cars. Some older models have dual filament single sockets but these seem to be steadily going away, with the notable exception of Jeep Wranglers.
Sounds about right to me
Yep. And it gets worse every year.
I avoid major areas every chance I get.
Too many people with the me me me, and whatever aditude on the road.
Yes, because police stopped working after Antifa demonstrations in 2020.
Either way they get paid.
Drivers were definitely more aggressive and dangerous 20 years ago than now where I live
Yes
Yes. Jackass drivers run through crosswalks and stop signs, then have the guts to yell at pedestrians. Cars act like they own the road. Bicycles are very common in my neighborhood, and yet drivers act like they shouldn't share the road with them too. (SoCal)
It's going to vary a lot by location, I'm not sure there is even a consistent worldwide tendency for vehicular aggressiveness. I haven't noticed one myself in Marseille or Mayotte over the 15 years I've been driving
Yes, and the trend feels like it’s correlated with the number of Teslas around here.
Not really. The roads here have always been filled with jackasses that should never have been given liscenses. Ironic for a city that is pretty much iconic to car heads (American Graffiti was filmed here); full of dipshits that can't fucking drive.
I wonder if the most recent people to switch to public transport and cycling were the nicest remaining drivers. Where I live at least, it seems this could be playing a major role.
theory holds out for me. I cycle a lot more now when I used to drive. I drive less now because it fucking sucks and makes me angry.
Traffic fatalities in the U.S. have been pegged at 40,000 per year for decades, in spite of the number of drivers going up every year. So, by that broad statistic, things have been improving.
question, is the 40k deaths related to the square meter of road availability? if we increased the amount of roads drastically wouldn't that increase fatalities?
when an accident happens, traffic slows and most drivers become more aware of their surroundings. this can lead to other minor fender benders that don't lead to fatalities and so aren't tracked within the 40k.
tldr: are the 40k fatalities dependent on the square meter of open road in-which to have a fatal accident?
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Maybe a little more irrational and chaotic, haven't noticed much change in aggression or rudeness. Just more impulsive decisions, like switching lanes at the last moment. Just today I witnessed a near collision between three cars who were all abrubtly switching lanes simultaneously almost into each other.
Yeah and they all have student driver bumper stickers
yes but I would say more than the last few. It just another thing that makes the teens of this millenium noticibly worse than previous.
I have and wow is it bad. I see people blatantly run reds, including changing into the oncoming lane or the shoulder to pass people stopped at them every day I drive. Same with stop signs and even sometimes in school zones.
I know people have issues with self driving cars, but I’d rather the streets be full of Waymo’s than human drivers at this point. (Yes, I’d really prefer public transit and bikes, but that’s another matter)
Nah, I'd rather the maniac attempting to kill me from the car next to me to also be in that car. Ya know, mutual assured destruction. With Waymos, the maniac is sitting behind a computer somewhere else. Which I'm very much not down for
Er, do you think that Waymos are just remote controlled cars?
It's not a matter of think. Waymo themselves admitted that whenever one of their cars gets into a pickle that it can't figure out, which is more often than most people would probably feel comfortable with, control is handed over to remote operators who are apparently located in the Philippines.
Waymo claim that their remote operators are not actually operating the vehicle per se, no sir, but instead are offering it "guidance" on what to do. If you believe that's actually the case I have a bridge to sell you. I imagine this is rather to avoid the obvious legal question in that how in the hell is somebody located in the Philippines who has a zero percent chance of holding a valid US driver's license allowed to steer a car that's here?
I have no more insight into how Waymo manages these overrides than anyone else, but I don't find it unbelievable that a remote operator with access to an interface to the autopilot and an ability to see the data it is presented with could direct it to ignore an incorrectly identified obstacle and continue.
It seems to me that it would be a hell of a lot safer and easier to correct the mistaken decision of the autopilot and let it continue than to rely on a connection from halfway around the world for real time vehicle control.
However, like I said, I have no insight into how it works.
Actually no, just...more people on the road. Rush hour is rush most-of-the-day now, compound that by it's impossible to grocery shop at 2AM now.