{"id":600,"date":"2019-09-18T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/?p=600"},"modified":"2020-01-23T18:17:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T23:17:47","slug":"are-courteous-drivers-dying-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/2019\/09\/are-courteous-drivers-dying-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Are courteous drivers dying out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/thecaraficionada.com\/features\/courteous-drivers-are-a-dying-breed\/\">Car Aficionado\u2019s Jennifer Harrington thinks courteous drivers are a dying breed<\/a>. Is she right, or is it a local thing?<\/p>\n<p>Her guess, based on personal observation of drivers refusing to let people in, yield the passing lane, and such, is that the increasing about of distraction within the car is a major problem. She also points to the rationale, overheard on Facebook, that people doing the speed limit shouldn\u2019t yield the passing lane anyway, because they\u2019re already at the maximum speed. (Ironically, as she points out, that behavior is illegal in many states, regardless of speed limits.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/xt5-interior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/xt5-interior-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/xt5-interior-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/xt5-interior-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/xt5-interior.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her conclusion is that courteous drivers are a dying breed, but shouldn\u2019t be, given the inherently dangerous nature of piloting 4,000-pound vehicles at high rates of speed. What\u2019s more, the lack of courtesy may be driving people to want autonomous cars, the true driving-lover\u2019s nemesis.<\/p>\n<p>Is she right or wrong? <a href=\"https:\/\/thecaraficionada.com\/features\/courteous-drivers-are-a-dying-breed\/\">Take a gander<\/a> and let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Car Aficionado\u2019s Jennifer Harrington thinks courteous drivers are a dying breed. Is she right, or is it a local thing? Her guess, based on personal observation of drivers refusing to let people in, yield the passing lane, and such, is that the increasing about of distraction within the car is a major problem. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/xt5-interior.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}