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I feel like driving a car makes you legit insane. My parents are the sweetest people, but when driving they become crazy and screams at every stopped car.
Ok. I think you need to touch grass. Thats a terrible hot take. Just because you have mentally dificient parents. Doesn’t mean the rest of us are like that.
It's because driving a car is the most dangerous thing a regular person is doing on a daily basis. Behind the wheel you are just one wrong motion away from killing yourself and others. All while risking your single most valueable mobile possession.
Even if you compartmentalize that away and try to ignore it, it is a still a constant stressor.
That makes people get angry.
mostly agree otherwise.
Yeah, sure. Anger rarely is rational.
Not really a meaningful distinction. And if it were, I think it's entirely rational, as emotions go.
It's because for many people, driving a car comes with a certain entitlement. And why wouldn't it? Especially in the US, where drivers are fully accommodated to with infrastructure, crazy roads and all kinds of drive through stuff?
It's even noticeable here in the Netherlands. Lots of people I know that are very kind, mellow people turn into insane road ragers the moment they get into their car.
Exactly, it's like a brain disease...
Your logic would imply that bicycle riders would have the same thing happen (in the Netherlands). I didn’t see that when I was there, but I don’t live there. But I guarantee it’s not because car drivers “are fully accommodated with” whatever. It’s because there’s no communication between cars. Everyone is in their own box. That’s not the same with bikes or motorcycles or mopeds etc.
I'd say you see the same thing with bikes, especially in the big cities. They cycle everywhere and go through red lights all the time. However, a bike is a lot less dangerous than a car (unless it's an electric bike that can go very fast), which makes it slightly less of an issue in my eyes.
That phenomenon is so well-known that Disney was making cartoons about it 75 years ago.