Has anyone else noticed how skills perception awareness vehicle control and ability to make any sort of progress have taken massive backward steps, been especially notable since the country was forced into economic destruction by those currently in govt and their immediate forebears.
Driving is becoming increasingly frustrating due to people unable to make any attempt at pre planning approaches to junctions and lacking the ability to see and analyse anything happening more than a few yards ahead of the bonnet, anything happening in the surrounds or behind simply doesn’t compute.
There was always the driver of the red Micra and the oldies who had one set speed, usually 40mph regardless of road, clear main route leading a rolling roadblock or passing a school crossing patrol at 3.15 pm, 40mph it is, but now this inability to make smooth progress has risen to epidemic levels, a zombied generation of drivers of all ages in all types of vehicles.
On the opposite side there are the tear arses, who seemingly can’t control their vehicles either judging by the wreckage strewn about.
Yes there have always been useless drivers, in previous times cars tended to bite back if the driver was a chump, ie boot it too hard from a slippery roundabout or leave braking too late and too hard on a wet road and bent metal was often the result, those of us old enough remember back when if your car actually started for you on a cold morn you were chuffed to buggery, but these days cars are doing most of the work for the driver so they can concentrate on making progress rather than keeping the thing going against all the odds.
I’ve come to the conclusion that a sizeable number of drivers of all vehicles can’t wait for autonomous vehicles so they can concentrate on perusing and updating social meejia or applying eyeliner and lippy instead of driving, i bet lots of us on the road full time go through our driving days taking action mutiple times to prevent the unaware from what was otherwise inevitable because they seem to be in another dimension mentally, not as we expect or get any thanks for our efforts its typically a dirty look or a coffee sign because we happened to be where they were entitled to be regardless even if they have a clue what we just avoided for them , this applies to too many hgv drivers too sadly who seem to be as puddled as the worse car/van drivers.
Won’t include bus drivers because they’re perfect
What’s happened?