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Why are motorists more likely to violate traffic rules at night?

  • December 1, 2022
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The AvtoVzglyad portal analyzes the phenomenon of changing driver behavior at night. And for the worse. We tried to find out what negatively affects a person who drives

The AvtoVzglyad portal analyzes the phenomenon of changing driver behavior at night. And for the worse. We tried to find out what negatively affects a person who drives a car at this time of day.

If I have to drive at night, I always try to be more vigilant, despite the fact that traffic is significantly reduced. The question arises: why? Yes, there are almost no cars around, but rare colleagues in the stream have a completely different view of driving.

It is very similar to the night sea, when the fish fall asleep “during the day”, and predators are selected for hunting at dusk. Taxi drivers, exhausted from their work, try to make it to the end of their shift without falling asleep. You meet incomprehensible marginal personalities in strange cars, produced at the dawn of motorization, who are ashamed to appear during the day and realize their desire for mobility at night.

And while they pose a clear danger to others, I’m much more concerned about visually prosperous cars driven by seemingly suitable individuals. Here’s what you can expect from them.

A citizen can shamelessly park in the oncoming lane, run a red light, suddenly turn around across the continuous lane and god knows what he would never allow himself to do in daylight again. Perhaps this phenomenon is not widespread, but it is very common. That just begs the question, what does it have to do with it?

It is unlikely that we live in a world of two parallel civilizations – night and day, which have different views on road behavior. The point is rather something else. At night, a person has a feeling of some indulgence, because no one sees his behavior. As a result, the chance of not even being punished, but public condemnation, is minimal. So the high moral bar of the modern and possibly cultural individual falls into the abyss of primitive reflexes. Yes, and as history shows, it is at night that people are most often able to commit all kinds of indecency. But that is not everything.

A significant reduction in nighttime traffic relaxes the average driver, who no longer has to strain their brains driving through curves and intersections in the hope that there are no other cars after all. Incidentally, there is another factor, which makes the imposition of all of the above dangerous at night driving in an urban environment.

We are often confronted with the fact that lighted parts of the road alternate with dark ones. And the peculiarity of our vision is that the transition from daytime to nighttime image perception takes a lot of time. The flickering of dark and light areas makes the eyes work hard, constantly adapting to the environment. And since the brain spends a lot of resources processing visual information, it gets tired very quickly. A tired person does not care about politeness.

Have you heard of Maslow’s pyramid? It is worth creating even minor physical inconveniences – and all layers of culture and common sense immediately collapse, leaving us a relatively intelligent, but unscrupulous humanoid, ready to do anything to restore our own comfort.

So the AvtoVzglyad portal advises you to always drive your car, regardless of the time of day, as if a large number of eyes are watching you and all your actions are strictly scrutinized for compliance with the letter and spirit of the law. For drivers, this law is the traffic rules!

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If I have to drive at night, I always try to be more vigilant, despite the fact that traffic is significantly reduced. The question arises: why? Yes, there are almost no cars around, but rare colleagues in the stream have a completely different view of driving.

It is very similar to the night sea, when the fish fall asleep “during the day”, and predators are selected for hunting at dusk. Taxi drivers, exhausted from their work, try to make it to the end of their shift without falling asleep. You meet incomprehensible marginal personalities in strange cars, produced at the dawn of motorization, who are ashamed to appear during the day and realize their desire for mobility at night.

And while they pose a clear danger to others, I’m much more concerned about visually prosperous cars driven by seemingly suitable individuals. Here’s what you can expect from them.

A citizen can shamelessly park in the oncoming lane, run a red light, suddenly turn around across the continuous lane and god knows what he would never allow himself to do in daylight again. Perhaps this phenomenon is not widespread, but it is very common. That just begs the question, what does it have to do with it?

It is unlikely that we live in a world of two parallel civilizations – night and day, which have different views on road behavior. The point is rather something else. At night, a person has a feeling of some indulgence, because no one sees his behavior. As a result, the chance of not even being punished, but public condemnation, is minimal. So the high moral bar of the modern and possibly cultural individual falls into the abyss of primitive reflexes. Yes, and as history shows, it is at night that people are most often able to commit all kinds of indecency. But that is not everything.

A significant reduction in nighttime traffic relaxes the average driver, who no longer has to strain their brains driving through curves and intersections in the hope that there are no other cars after all. Incidentally, there is another factor, which makes the imposition of all of the above dangerous at night driving in an urban environment.

We are often confronted with the fact that lighted parts of the road alternate with dark ones. And the peculiarity of our vision is that the transition from daytime to nighttime image perception takes a lot of time. The flickering of dark and light areas makes the eyes work hard, constantly adapting to the environment. And since the brain spends a lot of resources processing visual information, it gets tired very quickly. A tired person does not care about politeness.

Have you heard of Maslow’s pyramid? It is worth creating even minor physical inconveniences – and all layers of culture and common sense immediately collapse, leaving us a relatively intelligent, but unscrupulous humanoid, ready to do anything to restore our own comfort.

So the AvtoVzglyad portal advises you to always drive your car, regardless of the time of day, as if a large number of eyes are watching you and all your actions are strictly scrutinized for compliance with the letter and spirit of the law. For drivers, this law is the traffic rules!

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