Has it started getting hot out where you are recently? There is always a spike in bad driving when the weather gets nice.
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Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
It’s strange, my coworker said the roads were really crazy last night. First light i tunred at, left turn by the way, with green arow, dude ran the red and almost hit me. Is it something in the water?
ultranaut@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“in these hot days is the mad blood stirring” -Romeo and Juliet
NullPointerException@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
An important game maybe? Being Brazilian, I’ve always refrained from driving before big games started, like World Cup or championship finals. People were crazy trying to get home.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is every day where I live. It’s madness. Otherwise, the place is paradise. Beautiful area. People are great here. Until you get them into a car. Then they are inattentive, pushy, and unsafe. People die every single year. Kids on bikes get plowed over. It’s insane.
At a 4-way intersection, if I stop around the same time as a car to my right I always yield to them according to the “right hand rule” of right-of-way. But everyone else wants to go only by “who reached the line first” and they want to time it down to the millisecond. And guess what: they always, always determine that they arrived first.
Funny how that works. They’ve changed the rule from “right of way goes to whoever arrived first, defer to car on your right when in doubt” to “it’s always my turn.”
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah, they put a drug in the water known as DHMO. It drasticly affects your brain and motor functionality.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
😳 are you telling me they put water, in the water?
mlg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yo dawg I heard you like DHMO…
Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
There’s cocaine in the water so maybe
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think it’s a barometer for the overall mental health climate. We’re any combination of overworked, broke, tired, we got news organizations trying to keep us mad at each other all the time…and then we get on the road where it’s easy to pretend those other metal boxes aren’t filled with human beings.
I’m not above it. I’ve participated in my fair share of road rage parties. And I don’t have any solutions, just observations and memes. That’s all I got.
marcos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s deeper than that.
People have been doing this since cars became fast. There’s something in our brains that automatically turns driving into a battle.
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Nah, it’s not just driving cars - I’ve seen the same happen with shipping carts in the grocery store.
Janx@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I don’t know. I have never seen a shopping cart dispute half as bad as the aggressive/asshole drivers I see every damn day. I think it’s the anonymity…
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
This is a really good observation.
And there aren’t any traffic laws for shopping carts. Of course they are also less deadly.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I mean, you roll up on anyone in an aggressive/adversarial manner, regardless of the situation, you’re more likely to encourage pushback than agreement/compliance. Even if it’s just the perception of aggression, our primate brains are wired to stand our ground. Doesn’t matter who’s wrong or right, it’s about locking horns. It’s why online arguments are the way they are.
marcos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So… Aggressivity always escalates if people interact at random without a cooling period?
That’s quite a hypothesis. Seems quite realistic. I wonder if anybody tested it.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 weeks ago
I’ve got a solution. It’s called a train.
WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Works really well when the nearest station is over a dozen miles away from your home, and you’ve got a full load of shopping bags with you.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 weeks ago
I’ve got a solution for that one too. It’s called a train station. We need to build more of them.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It boggles the mind that Americans cannot figure out any other way to buy groceries than by using a car.
I cover all of our shopping needs comfortably with a bike along with walking to the closest store.
The problem is that you’ve fundamentally fucked up your built environment, and trying to paper over your failure with car apologia is just not going to cut it
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What about a bus?
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 weeks ago
Buses are awesome too!
But I think any bus route that runs for more than 5 years should just be replaced with a tram at that point, because trams are even better. Buses are great for temporary changes to routes, but they can’t beat trams for efficiency or convenience.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Take that Centralizationist attitude back to Reddit.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 weeks ago
I think you deserve more freedoms. Right now you’ve got a car as your option, and if you’re lucky you can walk or bike to work. I want you to have your choice of bus, train, or tram to get to work. I want all three to be available to get you there in a reasonable time. The train goes faster, but you have to walk a bit farther to the station, so it’s good for exercise. The tram is slower, but you get to see the city as you go along and it’s very disability friendly thanks to level boarding. The bus goes along the lower traffic routes, it’s more direct but comes less often. I want you to have all three of those options, plus what you already have. And then you don’t have to risk your life or road rage. You can play Mario on your Nintendo while the train takes you home from work.
Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Better than nothing