Barbie Bilo (Edison): Road Rage

In drivers education classes, they teach you about the road rules and all of the basic fundamentals of a car. However, in drivers Ed. they don’t teach you how deal with a reckless driver, other than to just get away. This doesn’t seem to be a very good idea. By simply getting out of the way you are leaving that reckless driver to possibly do damage somewhere down the road…literally. In most drivers education classes, half the time is spent on the law, another portion is driving, and the rest is a course on drunk driving and other things like texting while driving. But what people don’t seem to understand is anger can influence your judgement just as much as texting can. Yet Road Rage was never mentioned during any of the driver’s education sessions I attended. Not one word was said about how to deal with an angry driver or how to keep yourself from being the one that’s angry. Most of the time people try to be courteous to other drivers by letting them merge and so on. But so many people have their own agendas these days and it’s easy to get frustrated with the general population.  Why has there not been any time set aside for such situations?

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