r states that, “ the stress people are under causes them to drive in a manner that normally they would not have under a less stressful situation.” Although everyone is not stressed all the time, everyone has experienced and can relate to stress, which increases the possibility that they might react with road rage during stressful conditions.When a person’s day is through, he or she is ready to go home and unwind, maybe with a glass of wine, a beer, a little TV, or simply rest; but on the way home the person is a bomb waiting to explode. Their wall of stress is ready to burst out into anger. It is a lot easier to get mad or angry with someone you do not know than it is to get angry with a friend, co-worker or family member. If someone lights the person’s fire by cutting in front of them, riding their bumper, or perhaps going too slow, he or she might burst. The explosion depends on the person. An aggressive person might have a more vicious rage than that of a shy person, but either way there is an apparent rage. Another important and interesting question to bring up is why is road rage more apparent now than say 50 years ago. There are many answers to this question, but the main answer comes down to our culture changing. Currently, we share our world with 6 billion other drivers and only a limited number of roads. There are too many people in the cities and very bad traffic, which can make anyone mad. I can personally relate to the bad traffic because I live in Seattle, which is ranked in the top five worst traffic cities in the United States. I know that when I get stuck in gridlock traffic I become very frustrated and angry even though the only problem is that there are too many people for our roads and it is not the guy in front of me that is causing the traffic. The fact is that the growing population and the limited space makes the traffic progressively get worse and along with the traffic comes the road rag...
