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Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social |
That's my anecdotal sense too, and there is some data to back it up.
"Results suggest that aggressiveness and inattentiveness of drivers increased significantly after the outbreak of COVID-19, leading to a higher likelihood of severe crashes." www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
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☀️ Starshine
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This was the surprise to basically ever municipal government agency, they all thought it’d go way down
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Public Universal Girlfriend 🏳️⚧️
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Things sure got worse after a lot of people got a savings boost, moved further away from their jobs, and purchased late model vehicles that require taking your eyes off the road to adjust things that could previously be done by button and dial. Study doesn't account for model year; it's shitty cars.
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Are most of these pedestrians wearing red hats?
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Brandon Williams
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I also think all the sensors and tech in cars teach people to be less attentive drivers. Like the cars are bigger the mirrors are smaller but don’t worry the wheel will turn for you or vibrate if someone’s in your blind spot and I think it just adds to people zoning out.
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Mark Blacknell
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I think it's worth pointing out that there's nothing out there to say that it's the Covid virus itself doing this. But I'd put some money on it being the experience of covid, which is watching society/institutions demonstrate that "lol, nothing matters".
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Jake Plunkett
@jacobdplunkett.bsky.social
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A gigantic sense of fuck everyone else, I’m what’s important.
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Courtney Milan
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Interesting.
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@shirleydunk.bsky.social
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I noticed the same uptick in aggressive driving after the invasion of Iraq. Strangely, it didn't occur after 9/11 or the invasion of Afghanistan.
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Old Dusty Death
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I swear I see someone run a red light every day now
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Patrick
@ptb2003.bsky.social
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Car size HAS to be a large influence here too. Your average vehicle is easily 1.5 times larger than the 90s.
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C.H. Romatowski
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This seems almost inevitable. I know plenty of people who’ve had to stop driving because Long Covid is impairing them. What are the chances that everyone who needed to stop did? (Zero.)
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Devin𓅃
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I used to enjoy driving, fast, slow, it didn't matter. Now I avoid it, too many drivers are almost suicidal. Last week I drove from the scene of one fresh accident to another fresh accident, it was a 5min drive. On the way home, saw a third accident. Clear weather.
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@craigwinston.bsky.social
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If you drive a lot less those habits lapse and need to be exercised to come back?
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Dr. Wombat
@aspyre.bsky.social
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It's the brain damage. Even mild covid causes brain damage.
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Dread Pirate Cummerbund
@dpcummerbund.bsky.social
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People are just becoming more uncivil overall. It's like we've collectively decided that we don't care about other people or following rules anymore.
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Mark Denovich
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Anecdotally: I used to think I drove really fast. That no longer appears to be the case.
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Olivececile
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The impatience is intense, in my experience. I dread any right turn that isn’t explicitly “no right on red” because I know my tendency to stop and look is going to cause honking and inching and all that. Just let me look!
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The Living Void Terror
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I've seen so many people cross lines or cross fully over double yellow lines to get around cars turning just because they don't want to slow down post covid that I never saw before.
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Orla McCool
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Definitely noticed the same thing here in 🇨🇦. Distracted, impatient and inconsiderate. I walk as much as I can to run errands and as exercise, and I've become acutely aware that I can't trust drivers to follow the rules. I'm a very defensive pedestrian now.
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Tony Somogyi 🟢 🇺🇦
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And there’s more road rage. I pull over to let these drivers through, avoid eye contact and even exit early. There’s little or NO enforcement. (I’m always thinking, that driver is going to kill someone).
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April
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I counted. Saturday there were 10 instances that I saw of people pulling halfway into the intersection before stopping.
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Michael Bucklebob
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I'm genuinely interested to know if this problem has played out the same internationally or whether it's a uniquely American problem.
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Clarke "METRO Mutt" Macbeth
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It wouldn't be hard for Minneapolis to adapt to a ban on cars. No one should be allowed to have them in St. Paul, either.
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Buttadeus
@thewanderingjew.bsky.social
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I think the question I have is whether it's a continuing trend from pre-COVID, or something new
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ACME Family Knitter
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I have to wonder how much such attitudes are driven by Covid vs how much they’re driven by the MAGA era whose leader has given people permission to be their rudest, selfish selves.
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Stephanie 🎀
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I’m seeing so many people breeze through yellow and red lights, it’s obscene 😵💫
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Annmarie
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There was a NYT article that blamed some of this on the cop' work slowdown during/post Covid as well. Sense is that you won't have any legal consequences so why not drive your feelings?
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Defuning
@neezee.bsky.social
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There is a truth about humans: when they feel out of control of their lives, they control what they can, even if it is dysfunctional.
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Condition
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My anecdata also confirms this. I've never seen people run red lights or drive as recklessly as much as I have "post" COVID.
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