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> The cause was easy enough to identify: Data parsed by Kuhls and her colleagues showed that drivers were speeding more, on highways and on surface streets, and

> The cause was easy enough to identify: Data parsed by Kuhls and her colleagues showed that drivers were speeding more, on highways and on surface streets, and plowing through intersections with an alarming frequency. I’ve been seeing this a lot more recently. It seems like inconsideracy on the road is at a high. Could be due to lack of enforcement but just about every time I get on a highway, there’s someone speeding and swerving in and out of lanes.

efitz 3y ago
Warning - GenX get-off-my-lawn follows: I've been driving for 40 years. Drivers today are way less considerate than when I started driving. It's not speed- people have always driven fast, and teenage boys have always driven recklessly. It's a complete lack of courtesy. For example, you can be 3/4 of the way out of a perpendicular parking space and there's still an excellent chance that someone turning into the aisle will cut you off. It's common that if you're right-turning onto a street, and there is a red light on the street with traffic stopped nearly to where you are, that through traffic will ignore you and block your intersection rather than "give up" a car length to let you turn in. People in the right lane on interstates don't bother to change to the center lane when approaching an on-ramp. People in stop-and-go traffic won't let traffic merge in from on-ramps. I don't know what caused this or what to do about it.
ryandrake 3y ago
My guess is no enforcement. It's pretty much a free-for-all where I live and everyone seems to know it. The cops don't patrol or even sit in their favorite speed traps anymore. They don't come if you report property crime either. Honestly, I'm not sure what the police are even doing anymore.
bsder 3y ago
> It seems like inconsideracy on the road is at a high. Could it be "Work From Home"? A lot of what would be middle aged professionals probably now work from home. Pulling a big cohort of what insurance companies conssider to be quite safe drivers out of the traffic flow both decreases the absolute number of control rod-like safe drivers and increases the percentage of poor drivers on the road. I'm sort of dead on in that cohort, and I make an absolute point to not be on the road during any traffic spike times.

efitz 3y ago

Warning - GenX get-off-my-lawn follows: I've been driving for 40 years. Drivers today are way less considerate than when I started driving. It's not speed- people have always driven fast, and teenage boys have always driven recklessly. It's a complete lack of courtesy. For example, you can be 3/4 of the way out of a perpendicular parking space and there's still an excellent chance that someone turning into the aisle will cut you off. It's common that if you're right-turning onto a street, and there is a red light on the street with traffic stopped nearly to where you are, that through traffic will ignore you and block your intersection rather than "give up" a car length to let you turn in. People in the right lane on interstates don't bother to change to the center lane when approaching an on-ramp. People in stop-and-go traffic won't let traffic merge in from on-ramps. I don't know what caused this or what to do about it.

ryandrake 3y ago

My guess is no enforcement. It's pretty much a free-for-all where I live and everyone seems to know it. The cops don't patrol or even sit in their favorite speed traps anymore. They don't come if you report property crime either. Honestly, I'm not sure what the police are even doing anymore.

bsder 3y ago

> It seems like inconsideracy on the road is at a high. Could it be "Work From Home"? A lot of what would be middle aged professionals probably now work from home. Pulling a big cohort of what insurance companies conssider to be quite safe drivers out of the traffic flow both decreases the absolute number of control rod-like safe drivers and increases the percentage of poor drivers on the road. I'm sort of dead on in that cohort, and I make an absolute point to not be on the road during any traffic spike times.