I think it's more like 5% are so bad, it's enough to muddle over the average and make the average feel divine. I notice really good drivers almost as often and they're a pleasure to be behind on a long drive.
It only takes one bad driver to seriously mess up traffic is the reason tbh.
You can unironically have 100 people be perfectly coordinated at driving. One person decides to just be a dick at driving and it'll have a ripple effect where all 100 people in a row suddenly lose coordination due to having to make rapid adjustments for dick driver
This summer, my car wasn't worth repairing anymore and I decided to try living without one for a while.
And well, as it turns out...
...does actually work wonders. I just had to be forced to do it consistently.
Except I completely missed another factor:
Christmas Eve rolled around, my dad picked me up from the train station. It was just a ten minute drive home, but of course, some asshat had to tailgate us. My dad pretty much just routinely became angry.Which I get. That shit used to stress me out, too.
But well, used to. I had not experienced that level of stress for multiple months. I felt like some monk, checking in on what the normal people were dealing with.And man, I did not like what I saw...
Love this, great job! The lower stress level since I take the train for longer journeys and the bike for shorter ones is increasing the quality of life so much.
And then I have to drive a car every three weeks... Insane what some people habe to deal with every day. I feel so sorry for them.
Absolutely. If you can bike, it's amazing. We went mostly car free for our last 6 months in the US. It was both wonderful and horrible. There are so many places it's just not safe to go on a bike, but not being in a car reduces your stress levels so much it's hard to imagine.
That's awesome! I wish I could do that. I quit a fairly well paying job because I can't stand driving in this overpopulated shit hole I live in adding 3+hours to my day and now I'm a factory schmuck so I have to drive some distance just to get to work anyway.
Tried learning some forms of development so I could try to work remotely as that seems to be the only way to really dump your car, but my dumbass brain finds no interest in anything development related... I'm not sure if I hate my brain or driving more lol
If people tailgate me like assholes i just slow down more and have a lil giggle.
I mean, I've also done that at times, but it just happens so often around here. You basically can't drive more than a few minutes on a road without having someone tailgating you...
Nobody poops but you!
"Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"
— George Carlin
If everyone sucks at driving, odds are that you do too (I'm not excluding myself from this). Most people just don't realize it. But yes some people are more stupid than others...
Everyone sucks at driving. Humans simply don't have an innate comprehension of the physics of muti-ton metal boxes moving at high speeds or the physical reactions necessary to operate them safely. Even if we actually did, there are underlying psychological phenomenon that make people bad at driving. Humans are social animals, but when you isolate them in a metal box they stop being able to read social queues and start seeing everything outside the car as just obsticals instead of other drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians.
There are dozens of reasons driving is extremely bad for everyone involved, and why it feels awful for most people most of the time.
I was visiting home after being away for 3 months.
My mom asked my brother to clean the basement. His immediate response
"I didn't do I it, my brother made the mess"
Like... I don't even live here asshat
Especially as soon at it starts raining
why are all these people causing traffic?
- said the person causing traffic
