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Haha I always do look too. But I don’t know why. Like what will I even do with this information?
In my city, some people don’t even have license plate numbers, let alone, liability insurance.
I feel like this is a phenomenon that should have a name, but I don’t know what it is…
As you get older and more experienced, you get better at driving. The average driver, though, generally does not get better because of turnover due to age on both ends. This means that from your relative perspective people seem to be getting steadily worse at driving.
Of course there is day to day fluctuation, and some factors (e.g. cell phone use) may have large impacts, but I’m convinced that most of what we feel is connected to the former effect.
I feel the distracted driving is a large impact that reverses that effect you describe. Maybe trust is the wrong word, but I trust a teenager texting before an 80 year old. 80 year olds will slow down to 5mph and drift over lines to text. They’re fucking horrible at it and they don’t see it that way. These days teens have multitasked on their phones for 5-10 years before they were able to drive. Maybe they don’t understand the rules of the road as well yet, but they’re a lot more present while distracted.
Drove into work today behind the worst driver I seen in months. Couldn’t stay in the lane and randomly hitting the brakes. Not a drunk, just a boomer with a disabled tag. I assume she was blind.
Assuming you are the US, driving tests are mostly performative bureaucratic comedy, so states can pretend they are not giving driving licenses like candy.
I made a bunch of mistakes on my driving test, but they passed me anyway since my mom made me take my test on my 16th birthday and the instructor felt bad for me. I proceeded to get into 2 car accidents in my first year driving. I got pretty good at it eventually, and haven’t had any major issues since then, but I definitely would’ve benefited from a bit more practice before being given free rein.
It’s a car based society where people without a car have a lot of troubles getting around and do their daily tasks. Taking someone’s license is like ostracizing them from society. To keep the economy going, everybody needs to be able to drive, spend and shop, so it’s logical the barrier to entry is kept very low.
I always thought that with raising gas prices that the motor heads would not be able to afford to drive up and down the street at night as much, but so far it has not deterred them. I now believe that if they were forced to start using electric cars, they would add external speakers to them to make them sound like mussel cars.
That’s a bunch of carp and you know it!
Haha. Always, if there’s someone driving really dumbly I have to take a glance at them when I go by.
Just spend 6 hours driving between Cambria and the High Desert is So Cal today, can confirm.
Those are some heavy calculations you’re doing.
This reminds me of my local “$CITY’s Worst Drivers” Facebook group, where every single post has a bunch of racist comments saying that every bad driver is an immigrant.
As someone who almost gets killed by drivers on a weekly basis (yay commuting by bicycle in North America!) I confirm everyone sucks at driving. All genders, races, ages. It’s almost as if cars are an inherently dangerous and shitty means of transportation.
casual sexism
Hilarious that you’re getting downvoted. People are so damn uptight.
