Study reveals the biggest changes drivers are making during COVID-19 pandemic

ATLANTA — Metro Atlanta businesses are slowly reopening, and people are returning to work.

Still, you might have noticed from watching Triple Team Traffic that commutes are still light after COVID-19.

Channel 2’s Lauren Pozen learned about a new study that found people are changing the way they drive.

The study from Teletrac Navman took data from 100 million miles driven in connected vehicles from all over the country. It compares the five weeks after the emergency declaration to what things were like before the coronavirus.

The study found speeding is up about 17 percent. It also found more drivers are not obeying stop signs.

“People either doing rolling stops or going through stop signs, which was really interesting finding about how people are actually behaving and how that has changed since the roads have become so much less busy,” said Teletrac Navman spokesperson Ben Williams.

So Atlanta roads are starting to see more traffic, but will we ever see those big traffic jams again?

Triple Team Traffic says probably not until fall.

those behind the study hope it makes drivers think twice.

“We wanted to uncover this data to help people think about their behaviors and take a second thought before putting their foot down, or going through a stop sign, or turn aggressively,” Williams said.

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Study: Atlanta?s traffic is lighter after COVID-19, but it may be more dangerous Triple Team Traffic?s Mark Arum says he?s definitely seeing lighter than normal rush hours but, ?the crashes we do see are way more severe. Just horrific crashes.?

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