Does courtesy on the road still exist?
Have you noticed a slow eradication of basic courtesies amongst many road users? Just think back to the last time you let a vehicle pass in the opposite direction on a busy road. Did you get a thank you?
Does road rage seem more prevalent than ever? Have you been on the receiving end of aggressive or angry behaviour by another driver, including rude gestures, verbal insults, deliberately driving in an unsafe or threatening manner?
Is everyone in such a hurry that impatience behind the wheel is more common place? Do rude drivers drive you mad?
Or do you still find that other drivers say “thank you” when you let wait for them or give way when you don’t have to?
Are you a considerate driver or do you find it easy to lose your cool behind the wheel?
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Whether this is caused in part by the massively increased number of road users is debatable, and could probably have been foreseen, with the increase in population and the resulting clogging up of our roads for much of the time.
Bad practices are easy to spot, and are probably down to the usual combination of selfishness, indifference and carelessness. Don't think it's particularly age-related, nor gender-related, all sports of folk seem able to wind you up if you let them.
Some of the worst culprits are lorry and van drivers and it is difficult to remember when hgv drivers were classed as "knights of then road" Foreign lorries especially left hand drivers are amongst the worst. However there are an increasing number of oder drivers who clearly only venture out occasionally and are clearly lacking in confidence and drive at 20mph on all types of road causing frustration and getting all elderly drivers a bad name.
I think we should all be made to retake a test at 60 and every 10 years afterwards to keep us up to date and to check on our bad habits.