I've noticed that over the years driving in Los Angeles has become progressively worse. People are taking more chances and having difficulty exercising a healthy amount of patience while driving. This is especially noticeable with left and right turns into traffic. Drivers are making snap decisions and putting others at risk. I have a hypothesis as to why this is occurring. I have no proof to back it up, but it makes sense to me.
Cell phones and technology have made us impatient. It's to the point where drivers can't wait a few extra seconds for a car to pass to make a safe turn. A few seconds is an eternity in the digital world. I think people are having difficulty transitioning from the binary and code, to reality. And when they get behind the wheel their impetuous digital behavior becomes an analogue hell. I wish it weren't true, but it is, and I don't think there's any stopping it.
To add to the problem, nobody seems to be aware of it. I'm thinking it has societal effects beyond driving, but I can't think of anything specific right now. Maybe I'm entirely wrong and everybody is just hyped up on coffee and amphetamines. Or extremely conscientious when it comes to punctuality. Maybe it has nothing to do with technology. But something is going wrong out there. It could be that people are selfish assholes, and they're interbreeding with other selfish assholes, to make more selfish assholes. Who knows? All I know is drivers are making unsafe turns and it's getting worse and worse.
