Absolutely, Jake,

"When I was a kid, the cars were weak and the drivers were adequate, but it
seems that nowadays the cars are really advanced and driver training hasn't
kept up.  I hear at least twice a week about a 'rollover' on Hwy 1 outside
of Vancouver and I'd swear that I never heard of a single one from
1971-1999".

Combine that with aggressive drivers and a diminishing law enforcement
presence (namely the state police, at least around here) and you hear about
accidents where the surviver has to be cut out of what is left on a weekly
basis. I don't care so much that they take themselves out, but I do really
mind when they crash into someone totally innocent, taking them out too.

Dumbing down, hmm, maybe. I really think that a lot of bad driving is done
by drivers that know perfectly well what they doing (not driving badly but
thumbing their nose at the law). I was traveling down a two lane highway
last Saturday going through a village with a 45 MPH speed limit. I was doing
47, and got passed twice by people going much, much faster. Of course when
they got to the crest of a hill further down the road, the brake lights came
on hard, because that's where the cops used to sit.

The attitude seems to be "If I can get away with it, I will".

Dave

On 4/8/07, Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
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