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I’m convinced regular driving is not good for our brains. I am lucky to live without a car and I am a really relaxed person but it takes about a day driving before I start getting angry at other drivers again.
Switching to a walking commute is one of the best things I ever did in terms of stress reduction.
As it so happens walking at least half an hour a day is also good for your cardio-vascular system (according to a study that came out some years ago, it reduces the chance of cardio-vascular problems by 70%)
If that ain't the truth! I miss having a half decent public transit option.
Public transport is the answer. But if that's not an option, a tip someone gave me once was to imagine all other drivers as toddlers. Its kind of a compassion hack. Or elderly on medication.
Imagine that all other drivers are late for something super important, stressed, and lost.
Assume all drivers are idiots until proven otherwise.
This is also a good safety practice for pedestrians (maybe even more than for drivers since when a car collides with a pedestrian they're more likely to die).
In practice most drivers are not idiots but the defensive practices of going around assuming they are definitelly pay up when you do face and idiot driver and avoid a collision (or, as a pedestrian, getting run over) because your level of being careful was the right one for being faced with an idiot driver.
I concur.
One only has to look at how many people make cars their entire personality to see why building society around car-centric design is wrong.