>> I meant that if you
>> don't annoy another driver you probably won't be the victim of road rage. I go
>> out of my way to not annoy other drivers and I've never been the victim
>> of road rage. Simples.
I think it is very difficult to drive safely and never annoy other, more impatient, drivers.
However, I think that the issue is more to do with not making it personal, which is what use of the horn and gestures can do.
If somebody was in your way in the pub, you might politely ask them to move, you certainly wouldn't start shouting at them and expect to not run into trouble quite quickly.
Well, it is impossible to have a quiet word with another driver, so the horn and exaggerated gesturing is what people fall back on. That is the equivalent of shouting at somebody to move in a pub. Nine times out of ten you would probably shout at a guy who just wants a quiet life, but the tenth time you get the guy who takes exception AND wants to make something of it.
The situation is made worse by the fact that people wrongly feel safer in their cars and so more likely to rebuke others. As this case shows, if the other guy has a vehicle too, you are not as safe as you think.
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