Currently in a car with a relative, I've had to listen to them yell about how everyone who tried cutting in front of him is an asshole and everyone who doesn't let him cut in front of them is also an asshole. It's been 20 minutes
Driving is an inherently atomizing experience and because you don't see people, just cars, you no longer feel like you are dealing with people and any resistance to frustration with another person is lost
Yeah, covering up a person's face definitely has an effect on empathy. Just think of things like blindfolds and executioners masks.
That doesn't explain the sheer blind hatred that drivers have for cyclists
As someone who's been knocked to the ground by a cyclist proceeding full speed through an intersection during green pedestrian lights, I can assure you that you don't have to be a driver to hate cyclists.
I did only hate that one dumbass until I told the story to some people I work with and several of the cyclists defended what he did.
One person sarcastically asked me "what did you expect him to do? Stop?!"
It's because a lot of cyclists are pretty reckless about their own safety weaving around massive machines and blowing traffic lights and stop signs whenver they want.
the pressure of having to follow strict and complex rules and react at an instant's notice otherwise you or someone else might be injured or killed
I get it, but that just makes me shut up because yelling is distracting.
They're enraged they have to be in a car and are expressing that indirectly
It's this, at least for me. I actually enjoy driving (like, in the country), but I hate commuting by car and do not want to be doing it, ever. And it's easy in that mindset to stop seeing other people on the road and only see other cars, which are merely obstacles to me, the protagonist who just want to get the fuck home.
It's really amazing to me just how many ways cars make the world a worse place.
Fuck road rage, all my homies practice Road Solidarity. Nothing like when you and the car in the next lane both need to get over, so you signal and switch spots at the same time in a move so smooth it feels practiced. The closest thing to human connection i feel when driving.
that and speeding buddies, who you happen to take the same route with for a while
terminal car brain
The entire thing that's been sold to car drivers for a good 70 years now is like this sense of freedom to go anywhere at all times quickly that a car's supposed to give you. I mean look at car ads, it's always some suave guy driving the thing either through a beautiful landscape or moving swiftly through a city but shockingly wherever he goes, he's the only person there.
And that's the only way a car ever not sucks shit to get anywhere. When you're alone or very near that. So it works for some rural drives, sometimes, but then usually every other schmuck also wants the same freedom (and possibly paid out the ass for it) so it just doesn't happen.
So you have a man who paid thousands of dollars for an experience he just doesn't get so now he's angry as fuck, but the entire culture around it has suggested to him that his car ain't the problem, it's all the others.
You see it everywhere once you notice it. Listen to debates on traffic sometimes and then listen to car drivers. Their entire access to the debate is pretty much filtered through a lense of solipsism, and i don't even mean the turbochuds who complain about the bike mafia or how public transport is communism or whatever, regular ass people including leftists, do this shit.
And that’s the only way a car ever not sucks shit to get anywhere
No it gets boring fast.
I like to talk shit while I drive, but anyone else in the car would know I was joking
I only ever talk shit in Yodaspeak to people I get mad at. It's hard to get genuinely mad when you're talking like the crazy space goblin, but you still get to vent. It's nice
"Hmmmm... Grandma, I am... 10 miles per hour under, must go"
They have suppressed anger and the car is a socially acceptable place to express it. It's not like the vehicle is creating these feelings - not everyone gets road rage.
Just because not everyone gets it doesn’t mean the vehicle is not creating it. Car culture is toxic and in a sane world private cars and traffic would not exist.
it's boomer-tier
high expectations but also never realizing that you've done the same thing at some point
btw the
they should always get benefit of the doubt but everyone else needs to be punished for every mistake
is called fundamental attribution error
yea I think it's a combination of living life on tutorial-mode in the 50s, plus lead poisoning
Your brain knows you are going fast so it thinks you are running. If you are running it is time to hunt or fight. So it is just getting you ready for whatver.
We did not evolve an appropriate responce to driving to starbucks
And then with your brain primed in fight-or-flight mode, if you actually do have to slam on the brakes for someone else, hoo boy does that get the adrenaline and emotions going for a bit.
