I’m open to the possibility that it’s just me being more aware/sensitive to how people are driving around me too. And I’m not necessarily talking about drivers I have to interact with myself but just seeing what people are doing in general.
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.
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.
No, not personally. Have you considered other factors such as a change in local population (increased traffic), new local stressors (stressed people drive aggressively), has your driving perspective changed (higher driving standards as you get older or have kids)? I’m willing to accept my local area may be an outlier too.
Hell yes, since the pandemic, it has been nuts. Especially how they behave in parking lots.
I have noticed an uptick in the behavior that when you are backing out of a spot, people are more likely to speed up to get by you than stop and wait. When I can’t see what traffic is coming, I back up slowly until I can see. Recently, I had one guy honk to let me know he was going to speed past. Thanks, I guess?
It’s difficult to discern if it’s statistically significant. Perhaps these are people who always back into their parking spaces due to automated parking on more vehicles. Maybe they have lost their empathy for people who back out of spaces. Meanwhile, I have to guess what they are doing and then wait for them when they suddenly stop and back up towards me to get into a spot they had driven past.
Unless its a pull through spot, this is why you always back into parking spots. Its been this way for much longer than the time frame OP is talking about. Parking lot driving has always been a Mad Max experience
That’s a sure fine plan until you need to load something into your trunk or truck bed. If all you’re transporting is your own two butt cheeks, it works fine.
That said, I waddle my bike backwards into parking spaces because it ain’t got reverse.
Not really. It sure can feel like it when you run into one, but people have been shit at everything since forever.
It was way worse before phones were outlawed while driving. Now, people are back on their phones while it’s illegal. It’s a legitimate issue, and a hard one to solve.
People are braking like 30% later because of distractions inside of cars. More recent automobiles can tolerate braking so suddenly, but older ones cannot. Phones, funny enough, have gentrified the roads via producing unsafe drivers
And if they’re not on their phones they’re tapping on the giant iPad on the dashboard to change the HVAC settings.
I was at a friend’s place, and they had an oven with dials. Before I could even begin thinking of grandma and puppies, I had already ejaculated from the sheer beauty of it. It even had a numerical temperature gauge for every burner.
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).
No, in my experience it has always been bad
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.
Yes. Society is very ill. (pats society on head)
I think the older we get, and the more we know how things “are supposed to go” we notice when things don’t go that way. I usually try to chalk it up to people that are inexperienced, elderly or not local. But there will always be people that are dicks because they can
There are a lot of distracted drivers who think as long as they match the speed of the car in the lane next to them, no one will know they are doing something on their phone. Meanwhile, the whole road is blocked by people doing 10 miles under the limit because they’re relying on each other to pay attention.
The number of people who will sit until honked at when the light turns green also seems higher. Motherfucker, if you’re first in line you have an obligation to watch the signal!
I’ve noticed this too, everyone is on their phone now and not paying attention, then they get mad when you are forced to pass them on the right or honk at them at the light. Everyone has their heads up their asses now.
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.
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.
