Road Rage

             me off at times also. According to Nurenburg, this disorder only applies if someone fires .
             a gun, uses the car as a weapon, brandishes a weapon against another driver, or stalks .
             them. Other milder behaviors such as tailgating, slamming the brakes on, obscene .
             gestures and yelling are also included when they are done twice within a one-year period. .
             (Goehing, Jan "Aggressive Driving"). Well, perhaps I have been guilty of aggressive .
             driving, or road rage (OOPS!). There is a difference, but where the line is drawn is hard .
             to determine, due to the various definitions of each. It seems as though this sort of .
             driving is not extreme any more, but actually the norm. .
             Road rage becoming the norm is one thing but the statistic that shocked me was .
             given by Nerenberg; he claims that as many as 2.5 billion occurrences of road rage are .
             recorded each year in North America alone. (Rothbone, Daniel; Huckabee, Jorg "AAA .
             Foundation For Traffic Safety"). Other countries including England, Australia, Ireland, .
             Japan, Scotland, and New Zealand are also having similar recordings. (Vest, Jason; .
             Cohen, Warren; Tharp, Mike "Road Rage USA"). Two thirds of the driving population .
             in the US, Austria, France, Russia, and Belgium say that they have been victims of road .
             rage in the past year. (Goehing, Jan "Aggressive Driving"). .
             From information accumulated from many of the studies there seems to be .
             typical conditions under which many occurrences take place. There is a slightly higher .
             rate of road rage incidents during the Friday afternoon peak travel times, during fair .
             weather, under moderately congested conditions, and in urban areas. The rates seem not .
             to be affected by proximity to holidays. It is also concluded that alcohol and or drugs .
             were found to be associated with more than one quarter of the incidents that take place. .
             (Vest, Jason; Cohen, Warren; Tharp Mike "Road Rage USA"). So, if we avoid Friday .