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Interesting angle, I like the way you think. Internally I chalked it up to economic factors. Anecdotally people seem more stressed, pissed off, distracted, brok
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
Interesting angle, I like the way you think. Internally I chalked it up to economic factors. Anecdotally people seem more stressed, pissed off, distracted, broke, and nihilistic.
- milkytron 4y agoI've put a lot of thought into this. The societal, financial, health, and environmental costs of our transportation system have wide reaching impacts that should be addressed.
- ChainOfFools 4y agoAdd to this the the abysmal rate of turn signal use and the increase in entirely preventable collisions due to absent (or misunderstood secondary) indications of driver intent, all of which I highly suspect is nearly one-to-one correlated with an increase in turn signal hands now occupied by phones, which even when not being an active distraction to the driver nonetheless discourage using one's free hand to indicate to the rest of the world how they should accommodate whatever plans you may have for the several thousand pounds of metal you are controlling.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4y agoThe other kind of funny implication about the above analysis is that if it’s true, we would expect highways to become safer again by just simply doing nothing and letting roads become more congested again as population grows.