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Yeah, people are trained by society to engage in negative dopamine loops. Like the dopamine we get when we hurt somebody we hate.
Same with people who are desperate for someone to be mad at on the internet.
It's partially how the rich keep people isolated and individualistic.
Yes they do. Most People who have rage won't admit part of them likes it. A small feeling of power. No matter how infantile. They love it.
As self destructive as it is.
I think sometimes it's just a bad habit, no positive feelings at all, just pure destruction.
Yes.
For those saying "Get out of the middle lane!" What if I don't know the area and I'm trying to minimize the amount of suddenly needed lane changes I need to do to get into the correct one?
What if I'm driving a clunker and my transmission doesn't handle constant speed changes well making staying on the on-ramp lane a little risky?
What if I'm already fucking going 9mph over the speed limit? Look motherfucker I'm risking being late to work too, but I'm not going 10+ I can't afford a fucking ticket either and I'm not slowing down or dangerously constantly changing lanes because your rich ass can afford repeated speed tickets.
Not even the f'ing middle lane. If I'm in the left lane, and y'know, actually PASSING vehicles that are in the right then that's where I should be. In many cases it's an uphill and I'm passing a bunch of rigs.
In most cases I'm admittedly going a bit over the limit (just to pass quickly and minimize the time I'm sitting within a blind spot, especially with the rigs), yet there's always and idiot that's behind me trying to do 20%+ over the limit riding my ass.
People like the are in a hurry to they're own funeral
To be clear, I do not advocate tailgaiting or passing on the right, I pretty much always leave early, always use GPS even for local trips (I'm in the middle of a bunch of suburbs and highways and there's always a slowdown/accident) and I don't generally go more than 10 over.
If you're slower than the flow, you should be in the right unless you know you're going to need to be on the left. You should not be going slower than the people on your right, legal,, not legal, doesn't really matter.
Those people blowing by on the right are riskier than riding in the middle. Sooner or later, they'll overtake on the right, find there's a car in the blind zone ahead, and swerve back into the person running in the middle.
Unknown sudden lange changes? use GPS
Clunker? don't drive a car that's unsafe
Already speeding? doesn't much matter, if everyone else on the road is going faster, you're putting yourself in danger.
Driving slower in the middle should only be done as an exception, for your own safety.
I was once driving to work very early in a bank holiday morning. Dual carriageway, literally nobody but me in either direction. I’m doing 70 in the left lane (which, for those who don’t know, is the correct lane and the speed limit here in the UK).
Suddenly, a guy comes haring up behind me at what must have been at least 100. He doesn’t overtake, but instead sits an inch from my bumper. I do what any reasonable person would do - i take my foot completely off the accelerator and just let my car slowly slow down, to encourage him to overtake.
I shit you not, my car got down to 30 MPH before he pulled out and started overtaking.
And then he gave me WTF gestures as he shot past.
Reminder - this was a dual carriageway, two lanes in the direction we were travelling, and there was literally nobody else on the road.
It’s the weirdest thing.
If i were Freddy Kreuger I’d invade the dreams of tailgaters and give them a different nightmare every night - one night they’re paralysed for the rest of their life from an accident they caused, the next they have to live with having killed a child, etc - until they stop fucking doing it.
There have been a few sci-fi shows that covered the concept of a "virtual reality imprisonment" where this convicted are essentially sentenced to be plugged into a system where they live out a sentence that seems fully realistic and in "normal time" - possibly years - to them, but only hours or at least days pass in the real world.
If we ever get that tech, it would seem to be a good sentence for the truly dangerous drivers and road ragers. Get plugged into the machine, and live a few "virtual" months or years where you believe you've lost your legs, been paralyzed, or killed the family member that's you've been endangering with your idiocy.
In these situations, sometimes I go full Joker and perform a reverse pass maneuver.
What's a reverse pass? There's a tailgater behind you. You move to the passing lane or the opposite direction's travel lane. Then you slam on your brakes. Then move back into the travel lane. Suddenly the tailgater is in front, and you're the one riding their bumper! The look of confusion you get is absolutely wonderful.
Oh this is one of my favorite stories
I lived kinda far outside of the city that I worked. I drove a 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP, with the 2800 supercharged engine. My commute home often had traffic, and I was tryna get home asap. I found myself behind a car in the left lane, going the speed limit, and I was like manically desperate to get around her.
Finally I have the opportunity to pass, and I roar past her, glancing over to see an older woman in a headscarf, I assume Muslim, with a flip phone wedged between her headscarf and her ear, having a lively conversation with someone. I increase my speed until she is just a dot in the background.
I come to my exit, at the bottom of which is a stoplight, and I wait: white knuckled, sweating bullets, heaving and seething behind the wheel. A car pulls up next to me at the light and look who it is: the same woman, phone to her ear, talking to whoever, oblivious to my existence.
I considered her, then considered myself, and realized I was a fucking maniac likely doing harm to myself and god knows who else, and I didn't get anywhere any faster than someone going the speed limit.
Then and there I decided to chill the fuck out about driving.
But I miss that car
I'm a chill guy, but put me in a car and I just want to get from A. to B. as fast as possible, and interfering with that will make me angry. I have thought a lot about this and have come to realize I just hate driving. I hate everything about it. I want to limit my time in a car to a minimum, and it can make me act in ways contradictory to my personality. I fully believe this is the same issue suffered by most people who have a road rage problem, even people who love their car or value their independence. Millions of otherwise chill people get out on the road and turn into lunatics because driving a car is an unnatural wholey overstimulating process.
I agree that driving is unnatural and overstimulating, and that's definitely part of it. I think another part of it is that it's really easy to see other drivers on the road as "other cars" more than "other people". Driving is dehumanizing, in the sense that it makes it harder for people to see other drivers as fellow humans rather than adversarial machines, and people act accordingly.
Oh for sure. Car culture is a blight on the human spirit, its so ironic that being able to drive is associated with freedom, since it is a yoke around our necks.
The psychological effects are so toxically individualist, I'm driving down the road and someone is going below the speed limit, and I get frustrated, pass them, and see its some elderly person. My very first thought is "God who let's them drive" but then I realize they have literally no choice but to drive, or be driven. What if they have a Dr appt to go to? If they have double seeing or hearing, well we will just ignore that.
I take the vision test to drive without my glasses and I straight up can not fucking see. But I pass the test no problem. Scary stuff
In my part of the country, on and off ramps are treacherously short in some places and have poor sight lines in others, so the right lane acts as a de facto buffer and everyone uses the middle as the cruising lane.
EDIT: Holy crap I wrote the wrong lane. The right lane acts as the buffer. The left lane is still the passing lane like always. Fixed it.
That’s…the main traveling lane though?
I mean, the actual answer is basically yes.
People who routinely tailgate have anger management problems.
If you are tailgating because you are in some specific, actual emergency situation, getting to a hospital, that's one thing.
If you tailgate habitually, you almost certainly have some kind of condition that involves anger management issues or emotional regulation problems.
There's no reason to tailgate ever. You can always signal to the car in front of you you want to pass without getting dangerously close to them. I use the lights, it works well.
