Okay I do want someone to do a meta study about why everyone is suddenly the worst driver. My two guesses are COVID and an increase in delivery drivers due to the ever expanding gig economy but I don’t have any way to know.

I also want this study but delivery drivers, including things like uber eats, seem to be far too small a percentage of drivers to explain why it is pandemonium out there. It’s more of a logical trend, that has happened for a long while, where drivers aren’t actually at fault for anything, ever.

I also want to have a struggle session about if it’s okay for gig drivers to drive and park like absolute madmen or not because on one side they’re trying to pay their bills but on the other side they’re killing people by driving the way they do

It is not, no. Removed from individual choices, this is surrendering public space to the Uber Company for Uber eats, who gets all the profits and cares exactly 0% about their drivers. The solution to delivery drivers driving or parking badly is not to just let them do that, endangering everyone else. Least of not because that includes other delivery drivers on the ever more prominent e-bicycles, who also get fucked by that.