Road rage
A journalist asks about causes and remedies of road rage. I respond:
The cause of road rage is likely no different from that which causes rage in general--alcohol or other drug addiction.
The closest proof of this is a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study in which driving behaviors were linked to likelihood of DUI. There were, apparently, not enough road rage incidents to glean reliable statistics for that particular misbehavior, but there were enough incidents in which obscene gestures were made (often a precursor to rage). The study found the likelihood of DUI in someone making such a gesture was 60%. I anecdotally suggest that most of the other 40% were addicts between drinking/using episodes.
Another study from which we might logically ...
