1. Incremento de la agresividad y pérdida de la paciencia social.
Los usuarios reportan un cambio drástico en la actitud de quienes manejan, destacando un aumento en la ira al volante y una intolerancia generalizada que convierte la conducción en una actividad hostil.
- People forgot how to drive during the pandemic and also everyone is angrier and less patient than ever. Its a deadly combo.
- Driver aggression is also noticeably higher since the start of the pandemic. Certain drivers have a number of seconds theyre willing to wait for anything and its not high.
- I have lived in a major city for 33 years and have never seen people driving in such crazy ways with so much anger.
2. Deterioro de las habilidades cognitivas y el fenómeno del "cerebro COVID".
Existe una preocupación creciente sobre cómo el virus y el periodo de inactividad afectaron las capacidades de reacción y el juicio de los conductores, sugiriendo secuelas neurológicas permanentes.
- I really believe that covid has done a number on many peoples cognitive abilities. Driving has become absolutely terrible since the pandemic started. So many people seem to have lost the skill.
- Im pretty convinced that people have gotten far worse at driving since the apex of the pandemic. Covid brain is real, im telling ya.
- The pandemic lockdown. Driving is a skill and everyone is rusty and should have had a refresher course by now.
3. Crisis en la vigilancia y erosión del cumplimiento de la ley.
Se observa una percepción de impunidad debido a la reducción de la presencia policial en las calles, lo que ha llevado a que las señales de tránsito sean tratadas como simples sugerencias.
- Traffic laws and norms of driving basically no longer exist outside of automated enforcement and parking tickets. I am not exaggerating or making a joke. Post pandemic, there are no longer constraints on how people use the road.
- Theyve always existed but they got way worse during the pandemic because cops fully stopped enforcing any traffic laws.
- Since the pandemic, upholding road norms enforcing road laws has basically cratered.
4. El regreso de la congestión y el auge de vehículos de gran tamaño.
A pesar del auge del teletrabajo, el tráfico ha regresado a niveles prepandemia, agravado por la proliferación de vehículos más grandes y pesados que aumentan la peligrosidad en las vías.
- Beyond everything else thats terrible, a relatively minor but frustrating aspect of 2025 is that traffic seems to have returned to or even exceeded pre-pandemic levels.
- Its gotten genuinely so much worse since the pandemic. So many people upgraded to giant cars to feel safe and every road is full of them now. Its a plague lol.
- Suvs and light trucks deadly to kids, cyclists, pedestrians theres a pandemic on our roads and its increasingly killing vulnerable road users .
5. Aumento de la letalidad en los accidentes viales.
Los datos analizados por los ciudadanos sugieren que, aunque el volumen de choques puede variar, la gravedad de los mismos ha escalado significativamente desde el inicio de la crisis sanitaria.
- This is the single most worrying trend in the traffic fatality data automobile crashes are 75 more likely to result in a serious or fatal injury than before the pandemic.
- The pandemic meant less traffic, and so the remaining driving activity was faster and deadlier, leading to a spike in per-mile death rates.
- Fatal car-on-pedestrian collisions were down 101 in wa in 2025 compared to 2024... But pedestrian fatalities are up 25 from the pre-pandemic average.