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I used to have pretty bad road rage. Eventually decided I didn't want to be like that, and started driving the posted limit. Instant relief from stress and I enjoy driving now.
When driving is an activity to make up for constantly being late, you end up like the crazy tailgater. When you abide by limits, you end up like the person in front.
I'm my younger years, I got 3 $300+ speeding tickets in just under a year (speeding in Cali is an expensive lesson). This pretty much stopped my speeding habits. I use my cruise control constantly. It works down to 16mph in my car, so even in school zones. I fucking love it so much. Huge reduction in stress and anxiety.
And before anyone asks, I'm not the holier-than-thou asshole doing the speed limit in the fast lane. I stick to the right lane, move over to pass when I need to, and then move back.
Yeah, I also use Cruise Control constantly. It’s great, even in cities.
If my choices came down to having a car with power windows or a car with low speed cruise control options, I very well might choose the latter. It's so nice not having to also keep an eye on the speed you're driving at while going down tight residential streets with kids playing in their driveways.
I got a rental once, and it had roll down windows. No biggie, I grew up with a not dirt poor but very frugal family (no allowance, often no lunch money but I was never starving or anything).
I got on the highway and realized it didn't have cruise control and nearly lost my fucking mind. I think I'd take cruise control over A/C even.
Last time I was car shopping there was a super cute car I really wanted. Drove to a dealership an hour away just to test drive it. The moment I saw it had no cruise control I said "nope I can't take this car, where should I best turn around?"
I have however found that tons of biking makes me want to drive residential streets slower. 20 is plenty, so I'll often not even bother with the cruise because I can just be lazy on the gas and stay between 0-5mph under the limit, plus there's a couple of school zones where not using the cruise makes it easier to roll through at the school zone limit. When you're more used to going 10mph or slower 25 feels much too fast
Angling my rearview mirror up to the ceiling has helped me immensely.
People probably still tailgate me but I don't notice anymore
The situational awareness the rear view mirror provides is important. I generally have an idea of where every single vehicle around me is and what they're doing at every moment when I drive. I know when a vehicle is behind me, next to me, entering my blind spot and leaving it, etc. This way I can't be surprised when any one of those vehicles does something unexpected. I've specifically been crashed into because the driver was not maintaining any situational awareness (they flat out said "I didn't even know you were there! My truck never beeped at me!")
This does admittedly get more difficult when there's more than a handful of cars around me but with practice I learned to shift from tracking individual vehicles to tracking vague masses of vehicles around me which is almost as good, but more prone to surprises