Road rage is plentiful here. While I confess to having a fairly low tolerance for poor driving, I attribute most of it to the fact that I've nearly been run over more than a handful of times on lesser vehicles. Failing to illuminate a blinker may be annoying to the car behind you, but I can assure you it can be terrifying to the bike behind you.
I wonder if people with more acute road rage get angry at other people driving cars of the same make. I usually look at other people driving Volkswagen Passats (my car) with a certain amount of fondness; *generally* I think other VW drivers are somewhat like me: perhaps they care about the environment, probably a little crunchy, maybe veer toward the liberal side. At the very least they are kin in being duped into buying a piece of shit. I'm more apt to chalk up their poor driving as an anomaly, and shrug it off. If that's true for others, perhaps we should require people convicted of traffic incidents involving road rage to purchase the same car.
Something practical, slow, and ubiquitous - maybe a Honda Civic.
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