What is road rage and is road rage continuing to be an on-going problem?

Answer 1

road rage is when you cut me off, I get pissed and either chase you, cuss you, give you the finger, or shoot at you....and it will always be a problem with more and more cars on the roads.... good luck..

Answer 2

Road Rage is simply the expression of anger or hate throught the use of a vehicle as a weapon.

If you were on a crowded sidewalk and pushed into someone as you passed them, would you say "i'm sorry" or would you take a swing at them?

Much of road rage takes two or more people to be involved. It stems from a poor understanding of traffic law and rules of the road on one hand (these people should NOT have a licence to drive a car or truck); And on the other hand, selfishness, greed, or selfrighteosness (the other person thinking "why should I get out of the way, if the people behind me are late, they should have left earlier...")

Common courtisy is the cure. Stay right unless passing, If you must go left, try not to hinder the progress of teh people behind you. If you are trying to go fast, realize that gives you the OBLIGATION to be particularly protective of your fellow human on the road. Let them into traffic when you see they need help, slow down when the situation dictates, just be as nice as you would to a person you met at a park or a stranger you see needs your help.

Road Rage will continue to be an on-going problem until people no longer consider it acceptable behavior. When people change to a culture of kindness rather than a society of an eye for an eye, then road rage will cease to be a problem.

Answer 3

I never knew road rage existed until I moved to the Bay Area in California.Here people drive either really stupid or dangerously angry.I wonder how most of them got their licenses to begin with.For example,people turning right on a red light think they have the right of way.If I don't go because of oncomming traffic the car behind me will most likely lay on their horn or try to pass me either on the right or the left.Going through a green light almost hitting a car turning (whose light is red) onto the street ahead of me is an everyday occurance.Crossing a double yellow line is their right,cutting you off is their perogative and tailgating because they want to speed or have a bigger vehicle is their #1 priority as a motorist.Lately I've noticed something new,after the light turns green the first car will go then midway through the intersection slam on their brakes almost causing the car behind them to hit them.By the way it's always somebody in an older car that does this.I think road rage originated from here because so many people cause it and so many people have it.

Answer 4

road rage: when someone in a car is offended by someone else's driving say someone cuts you off so you ride there *** to piss them off and they in turn slam on the brakes to try and get you to rear end them and so on
there is also second hand road rage when your driving down the highway and you see some one driving perfectly and some young ***hole cannot yield properly and almost runs them off the road then proceeds to harass them as if it where there fault and you feel like that guy could really use a lesson in driving courtesy life etc. its mostly a having a bad day-anger management problem and as long as people don't drive with courtesy and consideration and gratitude for their other drivers road rage will exist

Answer 5

My husband must have invented road rage- he gets fustrated over other peoples driving habits and curses at them. Of course it is a different story if he does something wrong. More cars on the road the more road rage

Answer 6

It will be here forever, as long as we continue to over populate the highways. If you have never experienced it you must be a wonderful human being.
Driving in the midst of Mo *......... rons
is the cause.

Sometimes people think that the vehicle as a weapon is better than a gun and sometimes they think both are better.

I hope you never ecperience it.
I'm 65+ and have road rage frequently!

Answer 7

Road rage is when someone behaves as if he/she owns the road no matter what happens, and how it happened.It will be a problem as long as human beings drive.

Answer 8

I don't think it is as bad as it was 2 yrs ago. Road Rage is stupid people that has a bad temper.If you go to slow like the speed limit
or mabe you go to fast & they dom't like it. they will Curse you
Maybe run you off the road, or even shoot you. it's some one that has no paientence. Just try to ignore them.

Answer 9

road rage is caused by someone who never gives extra time for the road travel they get up late and exspect to have crear sailling but they know that its tere own fault for not leaving earlier to give extra time for the roads tht they know its going to be busy in the first place

Answer 10

Road rage is a term used to refer to violent behavior by a driver of an automobile, which thus causes accidents or incidents on roadways. It can be thought of as an extreme case of aggressive driving.

Manifestation

From the perspective of law enforcement and transportation safety officials, because cars give people a sense of anonymous power that explain such confrontations, road rage and aggressive driving manifest themselves in actions such as:

* speeding and aggressive acceleration
* tailgating
* cutting others off
* weaving in and out of traffic
* forming a "convoy" to block access to a traffic lane
* sounding the vehicle's horn or flashing lights excessively
* rude gestures (such as the finger)
* shouting verbal abuse, including threats
* deliberately hitting another person, vehicle or object with one's own vehicle
* hitting a person or vehicle with a weapon other than a vehicle (e.g. a tire iron, golf club, or baseball bat,) in response to a [perceived] wrongdoing involving a vehicle
* threatening to use or using a firearm or other deadly weapon
* pursuing for retaliation or revenge of a real or perceived slight
* triggering or exaggerating traffic waves
* driving in the passing lane and keeping pace with the car next to them to enforce the speed limit themselves.
* driving excessively slow on a high-speed road.
* throwing objects from a moving vehicle with the intent of hitting the car behind it.


In the USA, more than 300 cases of road rage annually have ended with serious injuries or even fatalities -- 1200 incidents per year according to the AAA Foundation study (see References), and rising yearly throughout the six years of the study that examined police records nationally.

[edit] Legal status

In some jurisdictions there may be a legal difference between "road rage" and "aggressive driving". In the USA, only a few states have enacted special aggressive driving laws, where road rage cases -- about 1200 a year -- are normally processed as assault and battery (with or without a vehicle), or "vehicular homicide" (in the event someone is killed).

[edit] Medicalization

As early as 1997, therapists in the United States were working to medicalize road rage by certifying it as an official mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. According to an article published by the Associated Press in June of 2006, the behaviors typically associated with road rage are in fact the result of intermittent explosive disorder. This conclusion was drawn from surveys of some 9,200 adults in the United States between 2001 and 2003, and was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. The cause of intermittent explosive disorder has not been described to date. There are many different views on whether "road rage" is a mental issue or not.

[edit] Penalties

Road rage is a relatively serious act: it may be seen as an endangerment of public safety. It is, however, not possible to judge intent by external observation, so "road ragers" who are stopped by police may be charged only with relatively minor offences such as careless or reckless driving.[citation needed]

It is, however, likely that those causing serious injury or death during "road rage" incidents will suffer more serious penalties than those applicable to similar outcomes from simple negligence.

A few U.S. states have passed laws against aggressive driving. However, only one state, California, has turned "road rage" into a legal term of art by giving it a particular meaning.