Yes, there's been several studies to show since 2019, accidents, fatalities and other metrics show we're getting worse at driving year over year, with two main factors continuing to increase: distracted driving and aggression/road-rage.
I'll admit my road-rage has gotten worse, but it's gotten worse because other people are driving more shittily. It's not just that there's more people being distracted and driving 10 under the speed limit in the passing lane for several miles before making a right-hand-turn from the left lane at the last minute with no turn signal (I see this behavior DAILY where I live, and I don't live in some huge city). It's also people blatantly ignoring and running red-lights, extreme tail gaiting, brake-checking, etc.
And when I say my road rage is getting worse, I mean yelling in my helmet and getting privately angry. I don't take that rage out on others (don't tailgate, don't brake check, don't cut people off, don't even make obscene gestures or honk at them, but I really, really, really want to and often fantasize about getting a truck and wrecking them all out and pulling them from their vehicles and beating them with their own steering wheels).
It's definitely getting way out of hand. And I know everyone thinks they're a good driver and that everyone else sucks at it, but I've always taken road safety very seriously, even more so after becoming a motorcyclist. I don't have close calls very often because I practice situational awareness and ride/drive defensively. But now it's getting harder to avoid dicey situations because the number of potential situations is increasing and it's getting harder to keep your distance from everyone else and to predict what they're doing when they're being more erratic than usual.
I'll admit my road-rage has gotten worse, but it's gotten worse because other people are driving more shittily. It's not just that there's more people being distracted and driving 10 under the speed limit in the passing lane for several miles before making a right-hand-turn from the left lane at the last minute with no turn signal (I see this behavior DAILY where I live, and I don't live in some huge city). It's also people blatantly ignoring and running red-lights, extreme tail gaiting, brake-checking, etc.
And when I say my road rage is getting worse, I mean yelling in my helmet and getting privately angry. I don't take that rage out on others (don't tailgate, don't brake check, don't cut people off, don't even make obscene gestures or honk at them, but I really, really, really want to and often fantasize about getting a truck and wrecking them all out and pulling them from their vehicles and beating them with their own steering wheels).
It's definitely getting way out of hand. And I know everyone thinks they're a good driver and that everyone else sucks at it, but I've always taken road safety very seriously, even more so after becoming a motorcyclist. I don't have close calls very often because I practice situational awareness and ride/drive defensively. But now it's getting harder to avoid dicey situations because the number of potential situations is increasing and it's getting harder to keep your distance from everyone else and to predict what they're doing when they're being more erratic than usual.
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