While you're right about habits changing, generalizing is a big mistake; anyway, the weirdest title is the one from BBC:
Wearing helmets 'more dangerous' 
People tend to think they are immortals and, when the problems strike, they can't cope with reality. All these safety features are useful, but there isn't yet one to make people less morons (probably smart cars are the answer).
Following some youtube channels presenting accidents (mostly from Russia), I've asked the same. Some accidents could have been easily avoided; of course, it's easier to analyse from behind the screen.
As long as you follow road rules, you shouldn't be annoyed; if, for some reason, someone is annoyed, then he shouldn't be on the road at that time.
Not to be picking on you, but many things are objective. I have seen proven, using verified insurance company and government statistics, that it is safer to ride in States without mandatory helmet laws than in states where helmet use is mandated. My own time in the breeze was split about 50-50 regards this as I was quite knowledgeable in the matter. Above a certain speed body trauma in an impact will kill you, helmeted or not. The weight of a helmet can cause neck injuries in a crash. No motorcycle helmets claim to offer protection above 15 MPH so you can't count on them above that speed where you need them more. And the old sales pitch- "If you have a $10 brain get a $10 helmet, but if you value your brain get the best you can buy"- lots of truth there. My take is that for adults, the choice should be yours and along with that the responsibility to cover your self-caused problems should you have head injuries because of the lack of a helmet. I've had times where my helmet caused me harm and potential harm as well as times when not having it on likely saved my hide. I was lucky, but today I wouldn't ride without one, and a good one at that.
Perspective can be everything as anyone who has played field sports can tell you. The view from the field among all the players is so different than what you see on TV that it's like being in another world. Ditto the driving view from my big van versus a small car. And there's no review time while driving, only real-time with no going back until it's too late to have changed that situation. So I find the you-tube videos entertaining and somewhat educating in seeing just how stupid some people really are.
I disagree with becoming annoyed though. I am always annoyed with bad drivers, but I do not let that affect me by changing my actions, and it's actions that cause trouble. That takes discipline and knowing how to control yourself which not everyone has in sufficient quantities to be good drivers. Driving is about control, and that includes controlling your own emotions so that they don't influence your driving adversely. Case in point- a few days ago I was in a tight parking lot with my van coming to a stop where the line on the road indicated. The layout was such that I had to make a right turn; the path ahead was a one-lane one-way feeder into traffic entering the lot from the main road so there was no other option. At the same time a fool approached from the right and stopped where I could not swing my right without hitting him or the cars parked on the other side of the narrow lane I had to turn into. I motioned him to go, he motioned me to go. I nodded "No" clearly and motioned him to go again, also motioning that I was making a right, something my van size clearly indicated would be impossible with him there. The fool just sat there motionless so I put my van in park, crossed my arms in front of me, and waited. The fool begins to play on his cellphone so there we both sit for about 3 minutes, me stuck and him an idiot who should not be allowed out in public, much less behind the wheel of a car. Finally someone came up behind him, and only then did he move so that I could move. Annoyed? He-double-toothpicks yes I was annoyed. I wanted to drag him out of his car and ram his stupid head into my shiny chrome bumper, and that increased mightily when I watched in my mirrors afterward and saw that he was circling the lot to wait on somebody inside the store instead of parking to wait as people are supposed to do. But annoyed or not I did not honk my horn, say anything, flip him off, or do anything I should not do and that is what really matters here. He had the problem, he was the problem, and somewhere down the line he will meet one of the local rednecks who have their own big chrome bumper which will solve his attitude problem quite well and more permanently than the Cops can. I must add that it was nice having my Mobius going to prove that I did not wrong should any questions have arisen about my actions and also in case his actions had turned violent toward me.
Those who are truly not annoyed by bad drivers are quite likely to be that way because they are bad drivers themselves and don't understand just how things are supposed to work on the road. Safety and your driving safely come first and foremost, and anything which wants to take those away from you in any quantity
does not matter regardless of how that makes you feel. If it does, then get off the road before handling those things and feelings, and don't start back on the road till you can drive safely again. If you do no wrong, your dashcam will prove that and protect you which is what it was intended to do. Use it in any other way while driving and it can cause problems which need not have happened and you are then responsible for those problems and their outcomes.
End of sermon, preaching donations will be warmly accepted as you leave the building
Phil
