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The reasons why people are more likely to act aggressively in traffic are probably way too complex for somebody without the proper background or plenty of data at hand to start discussing. However, they probably have something to do with a mix of the security offered by the car and the discrepancy between what we see out of its windows and what we'd like to see.
We'd like to see people using their turn signals, asking politely to change lanes, thanking you when you let them do it, showing respect toward other drivers, and, generally speaking, driving by the rules. But we rarely see that, and that can make us disappointed at first, but it will soon grow into anger. And anger makes us worse drivers than the ones we could be, so we enter into a vicious circle where we become the exact drivers we hate, without even realizing it.
As with any vicious circle, breaking it would put an end to this situation, but in order to work, everybody would have to do it at the same time. And not only is that absolutely impossible, but you have to acknowledge the fact that some people aren't decent drivers turned bad by rage, but people who genuinely don't give a damn about anybody else. So our best bet would probably be some anger management classes.
A new survey carried out by AAA shows that more than half of American drivers have engaged at least once in a road rage-related behavior. The most common of them appears to be tailgating, with 1.8 percent of respondents saying they do it regularly, 37.1 percent do it rarely, and 50.8 percent have done it at least once. Surprisingly, yelling at another driver scores lower with just 46.6 percent, followed by "honking to show annoyance or anger" with 44.5 percent. The more serious cases of road rage - the ones we post now and then whenever something funny or peculiar happens - like exiting the vehicle to confront another driver only scored 3.7 percent. Which still means that one in 25 drivers has done this once in their lifetime. Goosfraba.
As with any vicious circle, breaking it would put an end to this situation, but in order to work, everybody would have to do it at the same time. And not only is that absolutely impossible, but you have to acknowledge the fact that some people aren't decent drivers turned bad by rage, but people who genuinely don't give a damn about anybody else. So our best bet would probably be some anger management classes.
A new survey carried out by AAA shows that more than half of American drivers have engaged at least once in a road rage-related behavior. The most common of them appears to be tailgating, with 1.8 percent of respondents saying they do it regularly, 37.1 percent do it rarely, and 50.8 percent have done it at least once. Surprisingly, yelling at another driver scores lower with just 46.6 percent, followed by "honking to show annoyance or anger" with 44.5 percent. The more serious cases of road rage - the ones we post now and then whenever something funny or peculiar happens - like exiting the vehicle to confront another driver only scored 3.7 percent. Which still means that one in 25 drivers has done this once in their lifetime. Goosfraba.
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