Am I imagining it or have drivers become more impatient and therefore careless just over the last year?
My theory is that people are becoming more and more disconnected from the physical world around them, with more time spent in front of the TV and the computer screen. How many drivers now actually replace the air filter on their car or change a battery? The numbers decrease year after year. With this detachment from physical work they lose an appreciation of the dangers that an improper action can create.
The impatient drivers tend to buy SUVs so that they can intimidate other drivers with their physical size. Driving seems to have become a race from stoplight to stoplight and roads are treated as race courses. Our wildlife pays the price with an enormous number of raccoons and squirrels run over every day. Drivers speed through residential streets without any consideration.
My theory is that people are becoming more and more disconnected from the physical world around them, with more time spent in front of the TV and the computer screen. How many drivers now actually replace the air filter on their car or change a battery? The numbers decrease year after year. With this detachment from physical work they lose an appreciation of the dangers that an improper action can create.
The impatient drivers tend to buy SUVs so that they can intimidate other drivers with their physical size. Driving seems to have become a race from stoplight to stoplight and roads are treated as race courses. Our wildlife pays the price with an enormous number of raccoons and squirrels run over every day. Drivers speed through residential streets without any consideration.