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This roughly matches my estimate of evil drivers on the road, people cutting lines violently and not using turning lights, pushing to insert on the right when t

• sokoloff 4y ago
  I think it’s way less than that. We just got back from a ~1600 mile round-trip to visit family plus a week’s worth of incidental driving around town to buy groceries and visit other family nearby. On the highway segments, most cars were just trundling along between 2 and 20 mph over the limit, generally keeping reasonably to themselves. When an obstacle appeared on the roadside (stopped motorist, police, other), people flexed to let other cars get left and then returned to normal driving. Sure, I noticed a few people driving aggressively, following too closely, changing lanes excessively to squeak out one or two extra spots, but that was perhaps 50 cars at the very most in 1600 miles of driving. 1 or 2 per hour, not 1 per 20.
  • lullab 4y ago
    Maybe aggressive drivers don't drive aggressively all the time making you mistankenly assume they are good drivers?
    • fbdab103 4y ago
      The aggressive drivers I personally know are always aggressive.
    • sokoloff 4y ago
      If they are not detectably different from good drivers, doesn’t that make them good drivers?
    • dsfyu404ed 4y ago
      I think there's more variables to it than that. It's absolutely possible to create aggressive drivers out of thin air if you annoy everyone around you enough. I used to drive commercial equipment that simply couldn't keep up with normal traffic. Needless to say when you are a rolling obstruction you see a ton of "aggressive" drivers because "normal" drivers do aggressive stuff rather than get stuck behind you. I can't imagine how bad it would be if I were driving like that in a vehicle that didn't very visibly have an excuse to be acting that way.
  • pixl97 4y ago
    In theory the vast majority of your long road trip is going to be on wide open areas with low enough traffic volumes that there is no point of contention. Add in heavy traffic and the number of negative interactions will go up. Then remember you tend to roll with the traffic in these situations that lower the total number of people you're subjected to.
• Simon_O_Rourke 4y ago
  Why attribute poor driving behavior to intent/malice when most of it can be adequately explained by gross stupidity? People can be just plain dumb.
• dsfyu404ed 4y ago
  If you smell shit all day look under your own shoe. You've listed a few really bad behaviors and then used a bunch of weasel word language to imply a bunch of casual minor rule breaking is equivalent to its worst case forms. No wonder you see bad drivers everywhere. The guy who's not using his blinker for a lane change on the freeway in light traffic isn't equivalent to the guy weaving through traffic without blinkers and even then is the blinker really the problem there? Riding in the breakdown lane to pass someone isn't equivalent to getting tin the breakdown lane for a couple dozen feet coming up to a light just prior to the creation of a dedicated turn lane in the same space. If you didn't get bent out of shape over technical rule violations that are fairly reasonable in context you'd see a lot less bad drivers.
  • ta988 4y ago
    lol
  • SoftTalker 4y ago
    > If you smell shit all day look under your own shoe. Ha I'm going to have to remember that one. I used to get all steamed up about crap other drivers do on the road. Now, I generally just ignore it. I don't know why they might be in a hurry or what kind of day they've had, and it's not like I can actually do anything about it anyway.