Comment by sys32768
4 days ago
Has anyone else noticed human drivers becoming more aggressive and causing more accidents than ever?
I thought it was because my smaller town was overrun after COVID by transplants, but I'm hearing similar complaints from other places I was considering relocating to.
Perhaps the solution will be robocars where, if there's a potential road rage scenario, the passengers can duke it out in a VR headset session.
Is this a side-effect of a decreased attention span with everyone getting hooked on phones during COVID?
NHTSA shows a 10% increase in fatal accidents post-COVID, sustained since 2020:
https://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
No numbers since 2024 though, so I will assume the best case scenario of zero accidents in 2025 and 2026.
It’s one person anecdote, nothing else’s no need to invent a cause
I always notice higher traffic, aggression, and accidents around stressful events in the news. Those have been particularly frequent during this administration.
Transplants? What does that mean in this context.
Yep, it's awful. I'm not sure if it's confirmation bias, but I've noticed the worst offenders have been Boomers. I'm gonna chalk it up to an aging population, and a specific generation that likes to think of themselves much too highly.