Road Rage Research Paper
Road Rage
The sun is setting as you put your car in drive, pulling out into bumper to bumper traffic. As you sit with a pounding headache trying to decompress from just another day, praying there will be a break in traffic so you can get home. Juggling work, school, and family is hard, and just think, you get to do it all again tomorrow. The bottled up traffic is beginning to clear, if you could just pass the car in front of you, you’ll be home in no time. You turn your head and glance to the side before pulling out to pass the car in front. Looks like smooth sailing from this point, so you flip on your turn signal, merge into the other lane, and begin to accelerate. As you pass the other car, the other driver veers into your lane, …show more content…
According to the American Automobile Association, they 've been increasing by seven percent per year since 1990. "Yet this is only the small tip of a very large iceberg," says David K. Willis, President of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. "For every aggressive driving incident serious enough to result in a police report or newspaper article, there are hundreds or thousands more which never got reported to the authorities." The study performed by AAA showed that most incidents were trivial disagreements by ordinary citizens that led to an act of road violence. "People have been shot because they drove too slowly or played the radio too loud," Willis says. "But violent traffic disputes are rarely the result of a single incident. Rather, they seem to be the result of personal attitudes and the accumulation of stress in the motorist 's life." Everybody has heard of road rage, but let me ask you a few questions, who are aggressive drivers, what causes aggressive driving, and finally, how do we protect ourselves from being a …show more content…
It is important to never retaliate against other drivers as this has been known to cause traffic games in the past. According to AAA, “30% of all drivers have admitted to playing traffic games at one point of their life.” An example of this is when a driver slows down because he is being tailgated, only to have the tailgater pass the driver and slow down as "punishment.” The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration urges all drivers that find themselves in a situation like this to, “Do whatever it takes to get out, including getting off the road if necessary.”
Road rage is a growing problem in the world that is 100% avoidable. Approximately one-third of drivers in the US acknowledged that they have at one point or another, drove in an aggressive manner. There is no one type of individual responsible for road rage, and they can’t be spotted from a distance; so always remember drive with courtesy to others. Remember even the most peaceful people can become enraged drivers when they get behind the wheel. Finally, if you are ever tempted to participate in a driving game, ask yourself: "Is it worth being paralyzed or killed? Is it worth a going to prison?" In one impulsive action, you could ruin the rest of your
The sun is setting as you put your car in drive, pulling out into bumper to bumper traffic. As you sit with a pounding headache trying to decompress from just another day, praying there will be a break in traffic so you can get home. Juggling work, school, and family is hard, and just think, you get to do it all again tomorrow. The bottled up traffic is beginning to clear, if you could just pass the car in front of you, you’ll be home in no time. You turn your head and glance to the side before pulling out to pass the car in front. Looks like smooth sailing from this point, so you flip on your turn signal, merge into the other lane, and begin to accelerate. As you pass the other car, the other driver veers into your lane, …show more content…
According to the American Automobile Association, they 've been increasing by seven percent per year since 1990. "Yet this is only the small tip of a very large iceberg," says David K. Willis, President of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. "For every aggressive driving incident serious enough to result in a police report or newspaper article, there are hundreds or thousands more which never got reported to the authorities." The study performed by AAA showed that most incidents were trivial disagreements by ordinary citizens that led to an act of road violence. "People have been shot because they drove too slowly or played the radio too loud," Willis says. "But violent traffic disputes are rarely the result of a single incident. Rather, they seem to be the result of personal attitudes and the accumulation of stress in the motorist 's life." Everybody has heard of road rage, but let me ask you a few questions, who are aggressive drivers, what causes aggressive driving, and finally, how do we protect ourselves from being a …show more content…
It is important to never retaliate against other drivers as this has been known to cause traffic games in the past. According to AAA, “30% of all drivers have admitted to playing traffic games at one point of their life.” An example of this is when a driver slows down because he is being tailgated, only to have the tailgater pass the driver and slow down as "punishment.” The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration urges all drivers that find themselves in a situation like this to, “Do whatever it takes to get out, including getting off the road if necessary.”
Road rage is a growing problem in the world that is 100% avoidable. Approximately one-third of drivers in the US acknowledged that they have at one point or another, drove in an aggressive manner. There is no one type of individual responsible for road rage, and they can’t be spotted from a distance; so always remember drive with courtesy to others. Remember even the most peaceful people can become enraged drivers when they get behind the wheel. Finally, if you are ever tempted to participate in a driving game, ask yourself: "Is it worth being paralyzed or killed? Is it worth a going to prison?" In one impulsive action, you could ruin the rest of your