What is Road Rage ? ( wikipedia)
'Road rage' is aggressive or angry behavior by a driver of an automobile or other motor vehicle. Such behavior might include rude gestures, verbal insults, deliberately driving in an unsafe or threatening manner, or making threats.
Road rage can lead to altercations, assaults, and collisions which result in injuries and even deaths. It can be thought of as an extreme case of aggressive driving.
The term originated in the United States during the 1980s, specifically from Newscasters at KTLA a local television station in Los Angeles, California. The term originated in 1987-1988, where a rash of freeway shootings occurred on the 405, 110 and 10 freeways in Los Angeles. These shooting sprees even spawned a response from the AAA Motor Club to its members on how to respond to drivers with road rage or aggressive maneuvers and gestures.
A classic road rage incident occurs when at least one driver chooses to exhibit his anger. The driver might be already in a stressed out state when something stimulates a violent reaction. Immobility, lack of control, ambiguity, feeling of encroaching our space and the inability to admit our mistakes are reasons that will cause road rage.
There's a wide range of aggressive-driving behaviors, some of which are potentially much more dangerous than others. Psychologists Dr. Leon James divides aggressive driving into three areas -- impatience and inattentiveness, power struggles, and recklessness and road rage.
(Carazoo.com)
Classically quoted reasons:
Increased Traffic on Roads.
General decline in courtesy and civility
Conflicts in other areas of life that accompany us in the vehicle
False sense of 'control' when we sit in a high powered vehicle.
A sense of 'my territory' around the vehicle
Heightened sense of competitiveness in life....as well on roads
More youth drivers
All these are true and valid reasons.
Solution ?????
Many do's and don'ts are there... Tolerance, Patience, Ignore the wrong-doer, Forgiveness, Not doing obscene gestures...etc.
....but the simple one is :
Let us become human once more !!! Let us locate our lost PEGO !
