• taladar@sh.itjust.works
      61·
      6 months ago

      Anyway people in car are still people.

      Yes, but a lot of behaviour in a vehicle is determined by the vehicle and the road design so actually in a sense they aren’t. Someone might behave in a bad way as a driver despite being a nice person in other places. The same is true for other vehicles and their respective design encouraging or constraining certain behaviours and risks too.

        • taladar@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          6 months ago

          In a sense it is probably closely related to the effects where people behave differently on social media than in RL interactions or drone operators behave differently from pilots in the craft or artillery makes it easier to kill than looking someone in the eye when stabbing them with a short sword or how a temporary CEO hired specifically for it has an easier time firing 10000 people than a family CEO who knows half of their families. The perception of our environment, how people in our environment can perceive us and our options for interacting with our environment does influence our behaviour.

    • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      6 months ago

      I absolutely agree that it isnt everyone and that there are plenty of asshole cyclists as well, I’ve had many a run in with them as well, but i definitely wouldnt say that the majority of people drive with care in my experience. You will always remember that one person that puts your life at risk over the 100s that don’t on each journey, but even among the hundreds I see countless people everyday driving using their phones and generally not paying attention to the task at hand.

      I guess I don’t know anyone that drives near to where I live so therefore the only wave I ever get is the middle finger salute! Still I’d rather they were pissed off with me for taking a defensive position in the road than them not see me and run me down!

        • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          3·
          6 months ago

          I agree that it would be very dependant on where you live. For the most part I’m thankful for where I am and that it isn’t too bad. I would not like to cycle in the USA, that’s for damn sure!