Why do so many drivers ignore basic traffic laws now?

[Jeff51]

I've noticed for several years now that a lot of people don't follow the laws. Example- speeding, not using turn signals, tinting windshield, don't stop at stop signs. We used to do a better job then this. Wonder why people don't care anymore. Any thoughts?

[sage2021]

Because a lot of drivers in America 🇺🇸 are illegal aliens and refuse to learn how to speak and read English!!

How are they supposed to know what our traffic signs are if they don't even understand them?🚦 ⛔ ☢️ 🛑

Trump is powering down on the situation recently because the illegal aliens are getting fake drivers licenses 🪪 and too many people are being killed because of them driving 18 wheeler trucks 🚛 and other vehicles.

More frickin trouble from the illegal aliens!
Duh! 🙄 Ta Dah Ta Dah... that's how they go through life!

I'm so totally over it!!😡

[Jeff51]

Wish he would figure it faster for us Americans

[sage2021]

Thank you for the MHO 🙂🧡

[NoDecision]

Because too many people today do not think that these laws pertain to them. Or any laws for that matter, especially the do not kill! law.

[Zack-Bann]

It’s a worldwide phenomenon


I think it’s rooted in culture


If your culture promotes crime and punishment where people say “it’s only illegal if you get caught”
Then driving laws become suggestions instead of internalized guidelines


It sounds bad but I don’t think it is.


Sure laws exist to protect everyone but driving culture is essentially a hive mind of its own
An unspoken contract between everyone on the road
So protecting yourself is your priority
Wasting time calling out others for bad driving leads nowhere

[Anonymous]

I suppose it's up to local law enforcement 🚓 when the cops are on patrol to police those things as they see them when they're on their patrol 🚓 👀

[Opinion Owner]

I do like how California on Fox News LA 11 is supposedly getting speed cameras - Australia's had them for decades upon decades ☺️🤳📸

[Opinion Owner]

@Jeff51 the government having surveillance cameras, traffic cameras, light pole atop cameras - those are what catch the drivers breaking road laws 👀☺️🚓 bless surveillance cameras (as monitored by government authorities/law enforcement)

[Jeff51]

Let's see how those work.

[Jeff51]

I can see going 70 in a 65 zone. But people going 80 in 65. Cops don't care for 5 over.

[Opinion Owner]

@Jeff51 I think the British, similar to Australia yet slower, realised / realized by the 80s and 90s "it's about having cameras and cameras monitored also 24/7, how useful they are for monitoring crime and convicting for crime once those suspects are caught" - the cameras serve so many purposes as good as officers in the squad cars 🚓👣🚓 visibility comes in many forms, so I feel we need more surveillance cameras monitored by cops or by police stations - I think many countries would or should adopt the British example - cameras, cameras, cameras keep citizens safer safer safer 👀☺️ and they're useful evidence for convictions - footage. The cameras are society's angels 😇

[Opinion Owner]

@Jeff51 be it speed cameras, traffic cameras, general surveillance cameras, local government cameras - camera poles, camera domes - I am hopeful of societies with more police monitored surveillance cameras night and day - as well as more officers in patrol cars on patrol or on foot patrols 🚓🚓👣👣

[Opinion Owner]

@jeff51 have a good day Jeff. Preach the way of embracing surveillance cameras at your future elections or of your politicians / political representatives - cameras solve crimes 🫆 as much as a deterrent for would be criminals - from speeding through to traffic offences through to general crime - cameras footages etc - thank god for a surveillance 🎥 dominated world - I'm never one who's a 1984 believer in "anti nanny states" - I embrace the wanting more cops on patrols, more CCTV / more cameras monitored on street corners or major thoroughfares by cops - those things also serve as evidence in courts, surveillance footages - anyways - preach 🙏

[Opinion Owner]

@jeff51 have a pleasant Sunday, praise the Lord

[Jeff51]

You also have a great day.

[Opinion Owner]

@Jeff51 👀 thanks Jeff - I don't know if you're American or whatever you are, a Westerner even or not, yet one of the best YouTube videos I ever saw was how two cops, the senior cop, educates the citizen street filmographer by educating him how "asking questions is what I do, it's what my boss my sergeant expects of me, and - pauses for unrelated sentences - you'd want to help your local police right, if they ever needed that footage, or you'd want to support your police and your community, as an upstanding citizen, right?" - so the cop was basically educating quite smartly one of those people who try to be a smart-alec to cops where as the cops educate him and kindly by talking to him how there's better ways to be an upstanding citizen and a community advocate - but not by hassling officers on patrol aka "those cop watchers" - anyways 🎥👀 I think we all should worldwide support our local law enforcement more, by just being better upstanding members of our communities - 😇

[Opinion Owner]

@Jeff51 praise and embrace your local politicians and your local law enforcement / your federal enforcement officers even when they're doing their duty. God bless each of them - there's nothing more than the backbone of societies than "the cops on patrol" 🚓 or "federal officers doing their duties also" - praise be 🙏😇

[Opinion Owner]

Keeping communities safe 🙏 have a good week ahead @Jeff51 and a happy Easter ahead 🐰🐰 don't eat too much chocolate 🍫 myself included chocolate 🍫

[jennifer_bloom]

I do not drive so I am not attentive to these driving issues unless the situation and misbehaviour is very obvious and potentially dangerous, but what I do notice is that walking to the grocery store is hard because parking lots are so busy during the day. It's like I have to pause over 10 times for a one way trip to the store because a car is going in the opposing direction and wants me to let them get past me so they can leave the parking lot. Even though in Canada, the pedestrian gets priority over the driver, there are so many pedestrians in the parking lot, you often have to give up your legal monopoly over right of way priority in the parking lot so cars can exit the area.

[Cleatchaser1]

At least here, police used to have quotas for giving out a certain number of tickets per day. That practice I think got banned as illegal or something, so it's pretty much not enforced. If it's not enforced, people will do as much as they can get away with.

[NicholasofAustralia]

Sorry to hear that 👀 or to read that & on the plus side - I'm glad to live in a country here where there's so much surveillance cameras, speed cameras, traffic cameras - you can see why London and the England country dedicated so much money not to officers on patrol 🚓🚓 👣👣 yet also into 24/7 monitored cameras 🤳🎥 @Cleatchaser1 that's what many countries need more of or local policing - more surveillance cameras monitored by cops

[NicholasofAustralia]

*not *just to - typos - here in Australia, while we are nowhere near the UK/ England amount of surveillance society, I'm grateful for so many speed cameras - I saw many today even in the central business of town - on almost every major street corner traffic 🚦 speed camera speed camera traffic camera traffic camera camera dome camera pole - thank god for surveillance 🎥 countries 🚓 are safer countries - 🙏I feel

[Jeff51]

@NicholasofAustralia we can use that here. Getting bad.

[Cleatchaser1]

We had some speed cameras and some red light cameras for a little while and someone sued and had those removed too

[msc545]

That's absolutely true. As it turns out, I live in a City where there is essentially no traffic enforcement whatsoever. People drive like Maniacs here.

[loveslongnails]

In the USA, each state has its own regulations about tinted windows, and local laws add to the complications as well. One country outlaws them completely (Belarus). As to your question, some drivers are just plain ignorant, some don't care.

You wonder WHY people in some places don't care about safety, or others? Look at the leadership of that place.

[Jeff51]

Im in California. I wonder

[loveslongnails]

California is its own special animal. I've met wonderful people in smaller towns, and complete assholes in bigger cities. Cities tend to bring that out.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Here in Windsor, Ont., which has HORRIBLE drivers- I can't count the times I've nearly been hit crossing the street-Drivers' Education was taught in high schools at age sixteen to students with parental consent, a practice which ended when my niece and nephew left high school. Now there are pricey driving schools which many here can't afford, so I guess they get relatives or friends to teach them, hence the bad motorists.

[nolabels]

Inconsiderate drivers got much worse during COVID, and it has continued.

[Jeff51]

Yes agree

[nolabels]

Yep.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Lmao didn’t they make cars without seatbelts when you were a kid? This has always been the norm

[Jeff51]

Calling me old. Lol

[Jeff51]

Police are not backing their own laws

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

My question is how does a tinted windshield on someone else’s car put you in danger?

[Jeff51]

at least for safety you can see the driver. If that car was pulled over. The cop can't see anything from any windows. What if that guy can a gun and was ready to shoot the cop.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

What if he just has sensitive eyes and uses the tint instead of the sun visor? You’re not in any immediate danger if someone has a tinted windshield next to you at a stoplight, unless you make a habit of documenting every driver you pass and can recognize visually

[Jeff51]

Dmv book says you can have tint 6in down the windshield

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

So you would rather trust in bureaucracy than your own eyes? Those rules are in place because of extreme cases, would you say the situation I’m describing is extreme and warrants an officer to approach the car with a gun?

[Jeff51]

No. Im only saying things are changing and some things are going down hill. Not everything is bad tho.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

So maybe what you’re complaining about isn’t a lack of policing of imminent danger, but maybe just things you don’t personally like to see because whatever you’re experiencing isn’t dangerous enough for the police to say it’s worth their time.

[Jeff51]

Not dangerous but people don't obay laws. Parking near a fire hydrant. I've seen a lot of those too. Maybe people in san Diego dont care and maybe other places are better

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

It’s spelled “obey” and I imagine there’s a lot more pressing things for police officers than someone parked next to a fire hydrant and having that be the only active crime they’re committing

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Especially in a huge city like San Diego. A parking ticket doesn’t take precedence over a pair of drag racers on the highway doing 100+ mph, or drug deals, or worse.

[LC75LC71]

Now? You mean since either of us were able to drive? Treat every other vehicle on the road as an obstacle. Traffic creators..

[Jeff51]

Gotten bad last 10 years.

[LC75LC71]

From your perspective, and a bit envious I am. I drove professionally and more personally through the US. DFW Texas was the worst I've ever seen. drove through by far.

[supercutebutt]

It's a MAGA thing. Trumptards think reducing traffic fatalities is "woke."

[exitseven]

Where I live traffic laws are not really laws but simply suggestions.

[msc545]

If Trump can rape little girls and start wars and steal money and lie without consequences from the law, why can't I speed?

[strawberryapple]

I’ve seen cop cars with tinted windows.

[Jeff51]

Its to bad they can get away with it.

[strawberryapple]

It’s bad that anybody can get away with it. I think window tinting should be illegal.

[Jeff51]

Back in the day you get a ticket from having front doors tinted. Now there doing that and some windshields. Dmv handbook says 6in from the top only on windshield

[strawberryapple]

Are you an American?

[Jeff51]

Yes. Im in California

[strawberryapple]

After the death of George Floyd, police departments all over the country Instructed their officers to stop doing traffic stops. During a traffic stop, you have no idea who you’re pulling over. Maybe the person has outstanding warrants and a gun under her seat. And as we all know, if the criminal being pulled over pulls a gun out, and the cop shoots them, the left side with the criminal every time.
In my city cars now speed through school districts with kids present and drive like maniacs because they know they won’t be pulled over. I’ve seen hundreds of cars that don’t even put on license plates anymore.

[Jeff51]

To bad things have gone down hill

[strawberryapple]

Hopefully, it’s just a cycle and people will regain their senses.

[Jeff51]

Hopefully.

[NathanDavis]

smartphones = dumb people

[strateguy632]

Because they want to get there sooner.

[Dargil]

They are aspirant anarchists.