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I’ve seen endless people not using their blinkers, and I’ve seen people diving over two, three, four lanes of freeway to make their exit, I’ve seen people changing lanes in the goddamn well-marked no lane change tunnel, speeders and super slow drivers alike,
and I think it would prolly be for the best if the standards to get a license were much, much higher.
No, in my experience it has always been bad
I wish I lived in a first world country who could provide reasonable public transportation so I didn't have to deal with driving for EVERYTHING in my life.
Had a few people scream at me when I am cycling to work on the few sections I have to use roads with cars on.
Recent one I was cycling along and someone pulls out into my lane and expected me to move over for them. Nah, you fucking wait, this is my lane not yours. I can stand in the road with you shouting for a lot longer than it takes for you to reverse back to where you should be waiting.
Yep. Coinciding directly with the proliferation of massive trucks with 10 seats and 600 horsepower engines and a bed too small for a TV to fit in.
Check this shit out 
Not really. But the amount of asshole on e-scooters has gone through the roof!
Yesterday I witnessed nearly the perfect convergence, which was a guy on an electric kick scooter trying to split through lanes to run a red light and very nearly getting run over by a woman in an Altima (of course it was an Altima) diving all the way across three lanes from the far left to attempt to make an illegal right turn on red.
They came within inches of hitting each other. Ultimately it was the scooter dude who dodged.
The thing that is pissing me off recently is that when people stop at a light with wayy too much room in between their car and the one in front of them. I think it is a byproduct of many drivers not being able to visualize how large their car is Like seriously, most people leave enough room to fit an extra car or two at the stopped light. Imo it contributes heavily to how many cars can actually pass at a green light, and it makes traffic so much worse.
Counterpoint:
The last time I was rear-ended, I was in stop-and-go traffic going uphill. Every time I moved a few feet and stopped, the car behind me would pull right up to within a few inches of my bumper. It was driving me crazy.
Sure enough, the person behind him hit him, then he hit me.
The rule from the book when I was teaching my kids to drive was: You're supposed to stop when you can still see the where the rear wheels of the car in front of you touch the street. If your good obstructs the view, you're too close. If you can see street between your car and their tires, you're too far.
I don't trust the ass hole behind me to use there breaks and I'm liable if you push me into them.
Reading over the responses from people here, I'm realizing that Philly drivers really are as bad as I believe they are.
Most of the responses here describe what I've been seeing in Philly for decades. Running red lights, blowing through stop signs, turning right on red from the left-turn-only lane. I refer to that as the "Philly Right Turn". There's also a "Philly Left Turn" (AKA, turning left on red from the right-turn-only lane) which is slightly more advanced because it involves crossing at least one additional lane of moving traffic.
I had a guy hit me because he went straight in the right-turn-only lane and the road had a dog-leg at the intersection because of construction. He said it was my fault because "everyone does it". His insurance didn't agree with his argument, and I got my deductible paid (thanks, dashcam).
When I was in college 30 years ago, I used to joke that Philly drivers should have their horns linked to their brakes so that when they leaned on their horn to warn other drivers that they were going to run the red light, the car would automatically brake instead. That wouldn't work since then because people stopped bothering with the warning honk.
The things I've seen change more recently is what I mentioned in my other comment: driving on the wrong side of the road and driving while staring at their phone.
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".
I’ve noticed over the many years I’ve been driving (1) it depends on coincidence (sometimes there are suddenly ten jerks in a month instead of the average of two -plain statistics) 2) it depends on me (if I drive defensive, it seems every one does so too).
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.
Yes, and the trend feels like it’s correlated with the number of Teslas around here.
Drivers were definitely more aggressive and dangerous 20 years ago than now where I live
Yes, because police stopped working after Antifa demonstrations in 2020.
Either way they get paid.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
