I think in attitude they probably were, but there were far less cars on the road so you didn't have problems as often. In my opinion the major problem on the roads are due to overcrowding, which leads to multiple occasions on every drive where what you want to do and what someone else wants to do come in to conflict. A certain number of people will act like assholes to get their way and another portion will act badly occasionally depending on circumstances, but if we had less crowded roads most of these conflicts would never happen in the first place.