Drivers are the worst?

I don't know if it's just drivers - general cunty behaviour seems to be up during lockdown.

They appear to be getting worse.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/02/rac-hits-out-at-truly-sh...

"Cox, the Met’s lead for its Vision Zero initiative to eliminate deaths on the roads, said his team caught a driver doing 134mph in a 40mph zone in Enfield. Tracking cameras showed driving speeds in London were “above the limit on average in all categories from the first part of lockdown to early May”, he added."

maybe a mixture of the unseasonable warm weather and people finally being "off the leash" after two months' acute hardship?  Mostly, we did without in lockdown but now we're back to the feeling of having to compete to have crammed the most in today.
Whether it's just more media attention, but it does sound really angsty: my local newspapers are full of reports of spitting and abuse on the seafront in Bournemouth, fights in car parks, and on my village Facebook, the usual have a picnic or BBQ and just leave all the mess behind, but happening in really localised spots. Things you don't see to this degree normally. 

The Comments section, with its trolls and keyboard warriors - now I'm not commuting and my current job isn't mega-taxing, there's more time to look at this stuff outside my professional bubble - is quite worrying. I guess fear is still with us. 

No driver in my village seems to realise that peds and cyclists need to social distance from each other, none of it helped by pavement parking (no better way of saying "sod all of you").  No-one seems to plan or think ahead, or hang back when there's something going on ahead, like I was taught to do by my father. Until there's a vaccine, negotiating each other politely in any setting is now a really vital skill, one that in large sections of society we've thrown away in my lifetime.

If general behaviour in the pursuit of leisure is this wild, self-centred, disrespectful and even lawless, heaven help vulnerable road users when these folk climb aboard their SUVs.
In my cycling world, it's pretty much business as usual now, which is to say not too bad. The good news, that cyclists have known for some time, is that the real idiots are not in general early risers.  

I find the lack of patience - sometimes coupled with a high sense of rage - amongst some car drivers bizarre. I mean why is it a problem to slow down a little so you can overtake another road user safely so difficult?  

Like a lot of things the government could do much more. A cycling proficiency test before a car test should be a pre-requisite (with exceptions); and/or a vulnerable road user awareness test. A Think Bike type campaign for cyclists would also help. 

I experieced four instances of road rage yesterday - none justified - and all involved idiotic young men.  

I'm sure none of us want to ride with a camera but it is pretty much required now.

"Drivers" aren't "the worst" - idiots are, regardless of whether they're using vehicles or not. One part of the problem is that larger, safer, more powerful vehicles can lead people to feel more isolated from the external reality, more easily used as an extension of their frustration or anger, more dangerous to those around them - in the hands of idiots that can, and does, prove fatal; but the main part is still the person and not the type of vehicle.. who knows, perhaps the sort of person who views all people different from themselves as somehow 'wrong' and easily resorts to out-group slurs to tar them all with the same, convenient, brush.