We all have to share the road, why do we always make ourselves the victims in the narrative, what about the other person who’s been trying to pull out then has someone too close behind. It’s all just perspective. So you had to break? Why is this considered a bad thing. The only legit reason I’ve seen to get upset behind the wheel is if you have an important thing to attend and someone’s driving way under the limit in front of you. If someone swerves out in front and I barely miss a collision I’m just like wow that was close glad we’re all ok. But even if someone’s driving slowly in front delaying your time you could say you should have just taken off earlier to allow for possible traffic delays. It’s all just perspective. Road rage is goofy. Just chill. React as needed. Don’t get emotionally involved in driving. It comes from a sense of entitlement of others behavior and when in life is it true everyone acts how we think they should all the time.
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wtf are you talking about
> If someone swerves out in front and I barely miss a collision I’m just like wow that was close glad we’re all ok.
How often does this happen to you?
I agree with the opinion but like I don’t think this should be happening frequently.
Because being cut off is dangerous, unnecessary and stupid. If people drove how they should there wouldn’t be a need for it.
Saying that we shouldn’t get mad at something that is inherently wrong is precisely the attitude that got us here in the first place.
Every driver should hold themselves accountable for their driving, if we did the roads would be a much safer place.
I think people are driving as their outlet for victimization. You can be self righteous, the aggrieved party, etc and not have to actually face the other person. Kind of like the internet in that way!
The moral of the story is that there is always somebody more crazy than you and you never know when you might cross paths.
People like to be passive aggressive and do things like block the speedy driver from passing on the freeway or whatever. It’s not worth it…. Let them pass and handle their business. You’ll be better off just not worrying about it.
Learn to drive.
I agree with the OP in most cases.
Exactly, now that I drive under the speed limit, I rarely get cut off.
Your putting my life and my kids life in danger yea I’m gonna get pissed.
It’s literally so dangerous and many accidents happen this way.
Have your upvote for the unpopular opinion but please drive safely
Agree. It’s gonna happen and it’s totally manageable.
You’re 100% right. Driving should not be an emotional experience. Every driver should expect, at all times, that the drivers around them are incompetent. If you expect stupidity, you’re not shocked and angry when it unfolds.
Leave plenty of space in front of you. If someone is riding you, move out of the way.
It’s not about what’s “right”, it’s about what’s safe for you and your passenger(s). If you can’t control your emotions behind the wheel, you shouldn’t be on the road.
Couldn’t disagree with this more. What a terrible take. People drive like assholes so enjoy it and don’t try to correct the behavior? What the actual fuck kind of response is that?
No, dude. Unless absolutely necessary, like you need to make a turn (and you should make them aware by using your blinker), never make the person behind you use their brake. This is how accidents happen. And, it’s just douchy.
Endangering both life and property is nothing to worry about? Sounds psychotic to me.
I rarely get cut off while driving. I give enough space so someone can change lanes unless it’s bumper to bumper. If someone signals, I’ll give them space. When I do get cut off, it’s someone driving like a complete asshole.
When it’s just a mistake and all ends ok then it’s no big deal (and hopefully the driver learns from it! We all mess up sometimes!) but some people are just arseholes on the road and drive like they are the only living being worth giving a damn about.
When I was younger I used to get mad. After decades of driving I don’t care anymore. I’ve seen it all. That’s just the way the road works. I am used to it. It does not stress me out in any shape or form anymore.
Do I think there are bad, dangerous, or reckless drivers out there? Absolutely. Does it faze me? No.
>It comes from a sense of entitlement of others behavior
You were doing so well, right up to here.
This is simply not universally true, and it scuttles the content of your thought.
i dont cut people off because there are so many people out there who are either not paying attention at all or are looking for a reason to smash into someone, but my theory has always been that if there’s space on the road, fill it. if there’s a car length of space in front me and you want to put your car in it, go for it.
Yes, this is a very unpopular opinion. Not only is it unpopular, I would almost argue that it is just wrong. We are talking about safety. I have a child, so do other people. If my child’s life was taken away because some car cut me off uneccessarily, I don’t think I would be able to just ‘chill out’ about it.
Yes, we share a road. That is precisely why this behavior should be discouraged. No one should ever road rage, what’s done is done. It does not excuse the behavior of the other driver however. If they continue to think they can get away with it, they will, until they ultimately kill someone else or themselves (not like that would be a bad thing).
Because I don’t want to die or get hurt in an unnecessary move to save time. That’s not just unpopular, it could be deadly
TL:DR I’m a terrible driver and I don’t think people should be upset with me for it.
I think people confuse being cut off with someone just making a normal lane change. And that’s the main issue here. I one time had my blinker on for like a full mile and a guy wouldn’t let me merge into his lane, he got up next to me and just shook his head no..I needed to take a fucking turn lol.
Oh North of Boston drivers
Disagree there are emotional snowflakes behind the wheel everywhere. To get on 635 in Dallas comes with a small level of derangement and drops IQ levels instantly. Also if you feel this way stay out of the left 2 lanes please.
There is getting cut off becasue a lane is ending, or some arbitrary reason that’s not necessarily under any ones control. And a Nissan altima try to cut up traffic casue it’s fun. One I’ll let go, the other i may flip off and purposely close the gap.
Yup. I was just saying this the other day.
Yes and totally entitled to not get killed by some jackass that disregards other drivers
The highway code says you should drive with due care and attention to your surroundings and other drivers and prohibits forcing another driver to change speed or direction.
It also says not to let the bad behaviour of other drivers get to you – stop somewhere safe to calm down if you have to then continue.
The point being, cutting someone off is incredibly dangerous and selfish and illegal. It would fall under reckless driving. It’s also possible the driver simply made a mistake – either way, getting angry about someone endearing your safety is completely justified but won’t help the situation.
I’m a biker. I deal with morons on the road every single day. Nearly been taken out by a few. A friend of mine almost got hit by a twat who doesn’t know what his mirrors are. These things shouldn’t be part of driving, nor would it be if people just drove properly. That’s like saying drunk drivers, tailgaters or insurance fraudsters are just a part of driving. It’s ilegal, wrong and incredibly dangerous. And the sooner we stop letting children drive, the better.
If someone cuts you off and nearly causes a collision that could have possibly injured and/ or kill you, anger is normal response. You go into a fight or flight response because your personal safety and well being was put at risk because of another person’s carelessness. I’m not saying road rage. I’m saying anger. Road rage will never be helpful in any situation and can be very dangerous as well.
Slow drivers are just inconvenient but not really worth getting super angry over, imo.
It’s obnoxious to not recognize that your actions impact other people. If you are incapable of driving with common sense, don’t make it everyone else’s problem. If you want to do something stupid while driving, you can gamble with your own life, but you have no right to gamble with other people’s.
You get my upvote because this is a true unpopular opinion. Some would say it’s bonkers.
I’ve never seen such an ice cold take
I get more annoyed by the people who refuse to pull onto the road for an excessive amount of time, because they don’t want to cut anybody off.
Yes! When I was a kid my mom would constantly be like “ah! They just cut me off! 😠” while driving and not knowing any better I thought our town was just filling with total asshole drivers. Then I started driving and I was like “…. they’re just making a lane change in heavy traffic.” Like what else do you expect them to do? Honestly traffic was busy in the town I learned to drive in but it was rare that I’d TRULY get cut off. People were really considerate and I think its just because traffic was so busy and we all just knew we all had places to be snd if we just played nice it would work out. I miss driving there. Definitely the best drivers I’ve PERSONALLY driven with.
Sometimes you have to just pull out and go it’s a little close but you didn’t really pull out in front of someone. Plus, you did it fast and got out of the way and the person gets mad. I have had people purposely speed up coming towards me laying on the horn when there was plenty of time for me to pull out, One guy got on my bumper laying on the horn and flashing his lights at me. He didn’t know my boyfriend had pulled out behind him and he was built like a gorilla and had anger issues. We were just a honking, cursing, bird flipping , light flashing mess going down the road. When we got home I asked my boyfriend if he thought I pulled out in front of him and he said no. You had plenty of space and time, he sped up and acted like a maniac. It’s scary out there sometimes and you never know what someone might do.
The definition of cut off is a little flaky. You’re allowed to do a lane change. If you can make it in enough time legally and from an insurance perspective you made it
We live in a society!!!
Getting pit maneuver’d by the guy you just cut off is just a part of it and getting the 🐷 involved is a pissbaby bitch move
I think we should all look at driving as more of a collaboration than a competition. In that spirit, I agree with a lot of what OP is saying.
Lead, follow, stay out of the way. Pick one and shut up about it. Or don’t and risk the rage of some that can’t actually abide.
I bet you are also the driver that doesn’t use their turn signals
> Road rage is goofy. Just chill. React as needed. Don’t get emotionally involved in driving.
That’s a nice platitude but isn’t always possible for a variety of reasons. People that don’t live busy lives just love to tell others that they should slow down, accept what’s going on and other bullshit. Fuck that….that comes from a perspective that you know what I’m dealing with. YOU DON’T and it’s arrogant to think that you do.
> But even if someone’s driving slowly in front delaying your time you could say you should have just taken off earlier to allow for possible traffic delays.
THis is arrogance at it’s highest level. Again you’re assuming things about people and making wildly generic and blanket statements WITH ZERO INFORMATION on which to base these claims or ideas. Just because YOU HAVE MORE TIME to leave early doesn’t mean EVERyONE HAS MORE TIME to leave early.
> It comes from a sense of entitlement of others behavior and when in life is it true everyone acts how we think they should all the time.
That’s not true at all and you should stop making these idiotic blanket statements and actually use the brain in your head for something other than these types of idiotic ideas.
Did you even bother to do any research into road rage?? Or do you just think some idea and tell yourself that “yeah, I thought that and it seems to fit so I’m right”?
Did you even realize that people with ADHD have physiologically different brains than people without it? Yep functional MRIs are now showing that people with ADHD actually have different parts of their brains light up than those without it.
DId you know that some people were abused in life and carry that trauma everywhere and it affects their lives in ways you cannot imagine? What about PTSD?? What about hypoglycemia? Do you know how any of these things affect people without being able to control them?? It’s chemistry.
And while you’ll be very quick to dismiss all this as “well they should seek a doctors help then and stay off the road” which is incredibly stupid thing to say….especially in America where mental healthcare has been all but obliterated for most people either due to costs or lack of resource and doctors.
Also did you even hear about a study that was done some 10+ years ago on Road Rage that found a connection between carbon monoxide (the exhaust of cars) and road rage….further compounded by the fact that most moder cars pull in “fresh air” from the outside but when in rush hour traffic is highly concentrated with all sorts of chemicals including carbon monoxide.
OF course you never thought of any of this cuz you’re not looking for truth. You’re simply wanting to justify your shitty behavior and your perverse thrills for holding people up by driving slow.
Just get the fuck out of the way and stop being an obstructionist.
It’s reckless and can cause an accident. It’s not just a part of it people need to pay attention too.
I used to work for a pool management company and rode with this older lady to do maintenance sometimes. We’d always hit traffic coming back to the office and she would scare the living daylights out of me trying to prevent cutters in the line for the overpass. In a standard she was shit at driving. I did finally convince her that she was causing herself (and me) unneeded stress because if she didn’t let them over someone else would.
Bad take imo. There’s a thing called the flow of traffic that everyone should collaboratively be working to maintain. and you can absolutely get to where you are going without cutting people off.
Amen. Its pointless to be upset about things you cant control and foolish to take it personally. I cant think of even a single time when getting upset at dumb drivers accomplished anything but distubing my peace of mind. All you can do is try to be different. These days im just happy to get there in one piece.
People get mad about getting cut off cause it’s inherently dangerous
Being angry when your safety or the safety of your family is put at risk is a perfectly natural and healthy response
I don’t have road rage, but I do get annoyed when there’s no one behind me for a mile and someone who has a stop sign decides to pull into my lane 3 seconds before I pass the intersection (I don’t have a stop sign). The worst is when they decide to go 10 miles under the speed limit and I really have to use the restroom lol.
I honestly don’t care too much as long as I don’t have to step on the brake. If I did my blood pressure would be way too high driving around in the city lol
So if someone takes a swing at your face and you barely dodge it, you wouldn’t be upset about it because nobody got hurt? I’m sorry, but that’s just not how normal people react to nearly being injured or killed by someone’s reckless actions. I’m not saying that it makes sense to chase down the person, tailgate them, or go around them to retaliate by cutting them off, but being upset is a perfectly normal response. Telling people not to get emotionally involved when it comes to matters of their safety is basically telling them not to be regular human beings and despite this post I highly doubt that you would just move on without getting upset if you narrowly manage to avoid being injured or killed by someone else’s negligent behavior.
Yes, you shouldn’t get mad if you get cut off and road rage. Just move on, it might’ve just been a mistake and a maybe a horn beep to let them know they fucked up.
No, it’s not “just a part of driving” and we shouldn’t be happy about it or excuse it. It feels like you WANT to cut people off and have them get over it. Getting cut off is a huge cause of accidents. Just because someone was able to slam on the brakes to avoid you or swerve out of the way doesn’t make what you did OK. Yeesh.
So you just wish it was socially acceptable for you to drive dangerously?
I can’t think of any other reason for this opinion to exist
Not a bad take tbh, but definitely an unpopular one
Found the guy who changes lanes into a gap that is large enough for emergency braking but clearly too small for a vehicle.
This isn’t an opinion, it’s just bad driving.
As someone who has been sandwiched between two cars because the car in front of me was cut off, and the car behind me wasn’t looking so he rammed into me(me and the car in front of me came to a full stop and the truck behind me didn’t hit his brakes at all, admitted it to police and everything.) It’s definitely worth getting mad about. Get in the lane you need at a reasonable and safe matter or stop driving. I will get off at a different exit and go a longer way over cutting someone off. It’s for safety and being polite.
I didn’t “make myself the victim” this dude almost ran me off the road because he NEEDED to go to that specific McDonald’s and I guess just forgot? Cutting people off is dangerous and is justifiably frustrating. Now HOW angry you get is where I’d start to draw lines. I’m not getting out of my car but I may shoot a dirty look, and if it was really bad perhaps whip out the bird
What’s more: if you’re paying attention to the body language of other drivers you can usually tell they want to merge.
But people sit there, expect a signal, and when they don’t get it they explode.
Like bro relax. It’s not that serious and you being emotionally unstable isn’t gonna change anything.
I agree completely and have never understood why people care so much.
I don’t mind someone having to slow down because someone got in front of me.
I do mind someone reckless jumping in front of me when there isn’t room to do so safely. I shouldn’t have to change lanes or stomp on my brakes.
Cutting someone of is not just getting in front of someone, it the fact that it wasn’t done safely. You can get in front of people without endangering everyone in the vicinity.
Mistakes are one thing, but you don’t accidentally cut someone off. I don’t blame people for being upset that their lives were willingly risked by some random person just so they can get further on the road.
I remember riding in the car with the mother of my kids and she was road raging. I remember telling her “don’t be road raging with my kids in the car are u crazy? One day someone gonna Swiss cheese ya car up” in other words if someone cut u off just let it go it’s not worth it
Because cutting people off can cause accidents, not shoulder checking can cause people to slam their breaks on and be rear ended or side swiped.
Cool you don’t “get upset about it”, but being in a vehicle were this has happened, not only is it stressful, it’s ignorant to not pay attention to your surroundings. They deserve k owing they are your #1 with a middle finger and a solid horn honk.
If you’re having to break either you,the other person or both are driving poorly, and are a danger to anyone else in the road.
OP, you sound like you might just be a bad driver
Eh I’m not a road rage person but as someone who has a small car if someone can’t be bothered to check blind spots and then hits me I’m way more screwed than they are the majority of the time.
This is so fucking stupid I don’t want to upvote you…but I will 😂
Fuck this person. I few opinions show you are a terrible person like this. Truly a great unpopular opinion.
Youre the bad driver, arent you op?
“I should be able to blindly swerve into a lane without signaling and nobody is allowed to be mad.”
I get mad when people cut off semi’s or vehicles carrying objects (like construction supplies, landfill, etc.) because sudden braking like that is difficult for large vehicles and can cause accidents that are more likely to affect a LOT more people
Are you that white civic that just cut me off about an hour ago??
You shouldn’t even be allowed to have a license if this is how you think. Almost causing accidents is no big deal but someone driving too slow for your liking is a valid reason to be pissed off??? I feel like this has to be rage bait there’s no way people actually think like this.
If you willfully drive negligent, and your shitty driving skills put others in danger it’s the proper response to get upset. Especially when you’re playing speed racer next to me w a car full of children. Driving is privilege.
I remember in the 70’s and 80’s (I was a kid) there was definitely more of a feeling of “let’s all share the roadways and keep each other safe out here” for most drivers. People would slow down to let others merge, wave each other at stop signs a lot more, etc.
I really wish we could get back to that. If you were told at the beginning of a certain day that taking 2 extra minutes was going to save the lives of a family of 4 on the highway today, would you take that deal? Wouldn’t you maybe slow down and pay attention to your surroundings a bit more?
People rushing constantly like it’s life or death, when they know they’re going to have to do the same thing tomorrow, and the next day, and the next 20 years. Just treat travel as what it is: travel! Sometimes it’s smooth and easy. Sometimes it sucks. Usually you can’t change it either way, so just calm down, get through it, keep others safe along the way, and go home to your family. 🙄
I just tell myself that they probably have raging IBS and are in desperate need of a toilet. It’s not always true, but if you cut me, that’s what I will assume.
Far too many people confuse someone merging in front of them with being cut off. Cut off is where you don’t or you barely have time to react. It’s bad because it’s dangerous. On the other hand, most people will try to speed up, put themselves in a shitty situation, and then be surprised that the person who signaled to change lanes ends up doing exactly that so they have to brake hard.
My pet peeve is when people just sit on their horns after it happens. Like speed limits are high, people are swerving, cut offs happen constantly. While you’re still honking for a solid 10 secs the other car has passed and gone already. What’s honking doing right now besides annoying the other drivers near you?
And I’d argue if you’re an observant driver you can tell when someone is being a bit chaotic or wanting to move over before they even get to you.
The outcome of the action isn’t why it is a bad thing. It is the POTENTIAL outcome. Sure, you missed a collision, that is a better outcome than getting into an accident… but it is not a “good” thing to almost get into an accident that could hurt or kill someone, or cost money, or damage your property.
You seem like the type of person that does stupid shit and then say “what’s the problem? No one got hurt!” Completely oblivious to the risks that you expose others to.
Agreed. Like yell “fuck you!” and then GET OVER IT. my gawd when someone cuts my friend off or otherwise drives a fool he seethes with rage for like 10 minutes afterward. all conversation is about “that asshole” and his voice goes up 20 decibels and then he starts driving like an asshole himself. and since this is in NEW FUCKIN JERSEY you can bet that someone does it again before the 10 minutes of seething is over and so the entire “fun road trip” is him screaming about the other “bad drivers”. and he wonders why i never want to do road trips with him. kicker is: he LOVES roadtrips even though they’re all like this.
It’s not about being late or getting offended or emotional or playing the victim…. it’s that I don’t want to get in an accident! And people driving recklessly and selfishly is dangerous.
so you cut someone off and got honked at, eh?
Agreed. People bitch about driving way too much
If I have to stomp on the brakes just because you got in front of me, that means you cut me off, you put everyone in danger, you acted like an asshole, and your ability to drive safely is highly suspect.
I don’t care if you are late. I don’t care if you have been waiting. I don’t care if your exit is coming up. If you cannot change lanes or move into the roadway safely, then don’t do it at all. It is truly that simple. I have missed exits, I have waited more than 5 minutes to pull out from a driveway onto a street, I have had many many people move up to block me from getting over, and I have been inconvenienced more times than I can count. But I still don’t cut people off just because I think I deserve to drive unsafely like you do.
Your license should be revoked
When I was driving cross country for a move, in a moving truck towing my car, I was very aggressive cut off by 2 semi trucks who didn’t want to miss their exit, on 2 separate days.
It is entirely reasonable to get upset when someone cuts you off,cause it’s unsafe and could potentially cause death.
You really do have to drive like everyone else is careless and stupid
Every car on the road is a death machine. Don’t view it as less. It’s a ton of metal and plastic traveling up to 100 mph that can kill you in the blink of an eye because they were careless. I’m not saying get out and fight them but it’s beyond rational to be angry that someone pulls a move that can break multiple bones if not kill you
So many people here haven’t driven near a big city, and it shows. I expect to be cut off regularly, it is a way of life around here. And before anyone says I’m a bad driver, too, I’ve been driving for over a decade and have only been in one accident.
It doesn’t have to be a part of it and that’s the problem
Also, if you’re being an asshole and not letting me over after I’ve kindly signaled to you and I need to switch over, YOU’RE GETTING CUT OFF!!!
“We all have to share the road”
Yea so don’t cut people off simple as that.
i mean i kind of agree but turn signals are always necessary and switching lanes rapidly in a tight spot is pretty clearly uncool. obviously you need to let people over sometimes, thats just part of driving, but its easier for everyone if people use turn signals and we can all know whats going on
“Don’t get emotionally involved” then some idiot almost kills your entire family because they couldn’t take the L and find a safer gap or take the next exit. OP you are part of the problem. You make driving unsafe with the way you think. Learn to drive safer and smarter and you wouldn’t have to complain about being road raged at. Don’t make people slam on the breaks because you couldn’t take an L
You sound like the guy that chills in the left lane and when someone tries to overtake you just speed up lmao
Cutting someone off, especially at high speeds, can be deadly. It’s not overreacting to get mad that people are putting your and others life at risk for no reason. More than 40,000 people die in traffic accidents a year, over 2.5 million are injured in accidents.
There is never a good reason for neglect or reckless driving.
Getting kicked in the nuts is also part of life, still hurts like a motherfucker.
It’s annoying how careless/selfish a lot of drivers are. It’s normal to get upset when you’re driving fine and someone else is endangering you and others.
What a stupid thing to say. So the person going slow and only inconveniencing you is someone to get mad at, but the person cutting you off and almost killing you, themselves, and everyone around you isn’t? An opinion that stupid only serves to act as rage bait.
OP is a bad driver and it’s trying to make themself feel better
This is not only an unpopular opinion, but a truly, garbage, awful sewer level opinion. Great job!
It’s not a bad thing because you have to brake, it’s a bad thing because it causes accidents. The fact that sometimes you get luck and an accident doesn’t happen doesn’t change the fact that it’s dangerous – it puts people’s lives at risk. That’s why people get mad.
It’s absolutely nothing like needing to get somewhere and being stuck behind someone slow. That doesn’t put anything at risk, it’s just mildly annoying.
I mean I’ll call the other driver a jackass or something but I can’t say I’ve ever let it really effect me.
Say this same opinion after a massive industrial truck cuts you off by slowly turning onto a 55mph road right in front of you. Screeching my brakes and my heart is in my throat as my body thinks death is imminent. Saved at the last second due to braking in time.
Near death type of adrenaline situation. Fight flight freeze or faun . You’re doing one of the last 2. Some people are going into fight mode.
This has happened several times at the same exit. I am on the exit ready to get off the HW. The idiot in the next lane is driving and decides RIGHT when the exit lane is about to cut off, they need to get off here and literally just jump in front of me. That shit drives me crazy
This is a stupid take.
Driving unsafely is just a part of driving?
Getting cut off is NOT “sharing the road”.
It’s way too easy to get a license. And those that cut others off cause accidents that way. If you’re so dense as to think it’s somehow acceptable, I really hope you don’t drive.
It’s not about getting cut off, that happens. It’s about the courtesy wave. Acknowledging that you cut someone off or thanking them for letting you in, is how we share the road in polite society.
Almost getting killed as a result of someone else’s actions isn’t worth getting mad about??
I’m cool with someone cutting me pretty close— as long as they signal. Them’s the rules. If they just try to muscle in, I have no sympathy for their plight.
The bottom line is driving needs to be safe and hopefully efficient.
No one should be recklessly endangering others, but people shouldn’t be above letting others pass them sometimes. Don’t take anything personally and keep the traffic moving.
Throwing tantrums is part of driving, it’s in the manuals
I was cut off by a lady with her kid in the backseat. I introduced them to the concrete barrier.
This is an L take because you’re excusing other people’s recklessness that puts other people in danger needlessly.
You could also say people shouldn’t be mad when someone’s gun accidentally goes off in a Walmart. It makes about as much sense.
Driving angry is dangerous and should be avoided, but also driving dangerously is dangerous. So stop cutting people off or you’ll kill someone one day.
The bottom line is when a driver does not have the right away and must yield they should yield completely in such a way that any other driver that they would be pulling in front of should not have to hit their brakes before they get up full speed for the road
If this means the person trying to get on to the road needs to wait longer than so be it. It is up to the emerging driver that does not have the right away to make sure traffic is clear and that the vehicle that would then be behind them has sufficient distance any too close behind situation is purely the fault of the vehicle that pulled in front of them
Yeah, it’s part of driving until you do it to a cop in an unmarked car and he pulls you over and tears you 17 new ones.
Because it can lead to death. Remember these are death machines on wheels we’re driving around with. And anger is a way of release, since it could’ve been a very damaging accident.
Idk it really depends on the situation whether or not I’m irritated by someone cutting me off. Do they turn immediately? They were about to miss their turn and were in the wrong lane. Shit happens. Not ideal but not a big deal. Someone cuts over in front of me so they can pass another car when they clearly could have waited until I was past them? Rude, unnecessary, and annoying. I do think people don’t give other drivers enough grace frequently though. My brother has terrible road rage and gets mad at the drop of a hat. Like seething, name calling, yelling road rage. It seems exhausting to be so mad all the time.
This is so stupid. Do you remember kindergarten: lesson 1. What your fucking turn Karen!
Getting cut off mostly annoys me because people can’t seem to understand a turn signal is used for lane changes too.
Like turn it on, count to 3, move over. If you need to get in front of me because your exit is in half a mile, pop your turn signal on and I’ll slow down a couple mph to give enough room for you to squeeze by.
I think we should all drive like we’re in control of a giant weapon that could kill people because that’s actually what we’re doing, but what do I know?
Driving is a lot less stressful if you take the advice given back in driving school and leave a couple of car lengths between you and the car in front. You can go decades without an accident that way.
I think if there’s no one behind me and you cut me off just to turn half a mile ahead, then you’re a dickhead.
For me, it’s like if someone walked up in front of me at a bank and jumped the line. No. It’s just as rude in a car as in-person.
A civilized person doesn’t say, “OK, I waited 15 minutes in line, but you’re in a hurry, go in front of me.” I don’t do it on the road either. I’ll get over so you can pass me as soon as I can. Until then, behave like a normal human. Or prepare for my anti-aggressive behavior. Because I WILL choose to lose a bumper before letting someone cut me off.
if someone gets in front of me and maintains my speed or faster i dont care, but if they get in front of me and are going 60 while im going 75+ ………………………………………………………………………………
I always say I’m happy that when I learned to drive it was mandatory for me to take the Defensive Driving course. It makes me look at the road as always potentially hazardous so my main focus is safety. Vengeful road rage is always unsafe. Im just looking for safe positions on the road, bad drivers pass by, please.
If another driver has to brake to avoid hitting your vehicle you f’ed up.
And people are justified at being angry at someone who put them at risk.
ur so real for this lmao road rage IS goofy
Why is this even posted here?
OP sucks at driving
Yeah I agree. 99 percent of the time I’m a considerate driver. Maybe that guy is too and it’s just his 1%.
This isn’t just unpopular it’s delusional. I don’t have road rage, but if you cut someone off and that person has to swerve you are putting people’s lives in danger just so you can go. As for the leaving earlier, I drive an hour for work and clock in at 7. I leave the house at 5:30 which gives me 1 1/2 hours to get there and there are still times I am pushing it because someone wants to drive slow. The world doesn’t revolve around you, there are others on the road and being a nuisance and a danger should get you kicked off the road, simple as that.