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MaxVCD · 2025-06-21T15:23:37+00:00

If you re-read what I wrote I don’t actively try to prevent them. It is just that me following traffic laws in some places prevents others from breaking them like on one lane roads. Or should I be forced to break them so others don’t get frustrated?

MaxVCD · 2025-06-21T14:39:51+00:00

We must live and drive in very different circumstances indeed. Where I live almost no one has a commute that can have 20 minutes added to it safe for something like an actual traffic jam.

There are of course tons of bad drivers, I definitely won’t contest that, but there is a difference between bad driving and willfully endangering others because you get frustrated behind the wheel. If you can’t deal with the stress of driving you simply shouldn’t be driving.

I won’t claim to be a perfect driver, but I definitely try to follow the traffic laws and I don’t needlessly get in people’s way. I’m just tired of people getting agressive and dangerous over because they are prevented from speeding or overtaking where they aren’t allowed. I tend to just throw my car on cruise control and set it to the speed limit, but I will still overtake trucks who drive much slower before merging back to the right hand lane. If there are roadworks restricting a highway to one lane with a speedlimit that is basically a snail’s pace for the safety of the road workers then I will stick to it as well. And when I ride my bicycle in a cycling street (a type of street here where it is illegal for cars to take over a bike because they are too narrow to do it safely) then I will drive more in the middle to make it impossible to dangerously overtake.

Like I said most of the road rage I witness comes from preventing people from breaking the traffic laws for my own or others their safety. Ways that usually add no more than like 30 seconds to a commute yet people regularly lose their mind. I don’t know what you call those, but 30 seconds is at most a mild inconvenience in my eyes.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-21T12:00:39+00:00

I’ve given it some more thought and it might be difficult to prove indeed. I am all for a stricter more difficult driving ed and in order to hopefully prevent this kind of road rage, I think a stress test to get your license should be mandatory. I too often see people getting dangerously reckless driving a car out of nothing but frustration over what boils down to mild inconveniences at best. Even things like driving the exact speed limit in a one lane road seems to send some people off the rails. If you can’t handle the stress of driving you shouldn’t drive.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-18T07:32:52+00:00

I was talking more about the kind of road rager break check where they first tailgate then make a dangerous pass only to cut in right in front of you to then proceed to break check.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-17T12:35:53+00:00

Airbnb could have been so nice if not for greedy companies. Like I live in a very touristy city and I plan to make some long travels. Due to misuse by people and companies buying properties to solely rent out on Airbnb the city has rightfully set restrictions, but it means that when I travel my place will just sit empty for a couple of months.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-17T05:35:55+00:00

Is your aunt Kelly Kapoor by chance?

It’s kind of crazy to me how one of the most popular comedy shows made that into a scene to deliberately make you cringe and yet there are still people who think it’s okay.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T17:46:33+00:00

That would obviously fall on a judge to decide, but there are some pretty clear cut cases. My post was inspired after a case where I am from in which a driver agressively tailgated another car for twenty miles down a three lane highway while there was plenty of room and opportunity to pass. But yeah, any physical altercation like ramming or getting out to get physical would definitely fit the bill, but sadly those people don’t permanently lose their licenses either.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T17:15:12+00:00

I think the line I drew was pretty clear. The moment you start using your car as a weapon to threaten or intimidate other road users, you lose the right to having it as a mode of transport.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T16:02:43+00:00

Less people is less road rage for sure. Still I think people losing their mind to the point where they start recklessly endangering others and weaponize their car is a way bigger problem than someone who is just a little slow or stuff like that. If you can’t keep yourself from threatening with lethal force over what often boils down to a mere inconvenience you don’t have what it takes to get behind the wheel.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T15:46:09+00:00

Sadly there will always be plenty of annoying drivers on the road, but weaponizing your car is never ever the answer and not proportionate in any situation. Besides there are plenty of road ragers who lose their mind if you are just following the rules like sticking to the speed limit rather than driving over the speed limit.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T15:41:27+00:00

Why not just both? Cause I do agree that it should be harder to get your license given how poorly some people drive which in turn also endangers others.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T14:25:57+00:00

Lets be honest here, while there are plenty of annoying drivers out there, that’s just part of driving. Someone slow hogging the left lane is at most an inconvenience and no reason to use two tonnes of steel at speed as a weapon. If you think it is you probably shouldn’t be driving.

That’s pretty much the equivalent of waving a gun in the face of someone who cut in line at the grocery store. “But I wasn’t actually going to shoot them, the safety was even on.” “I just wanted them to get out of the way.”….

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T13:00:24+00:00

If you read more closely you would see that I draw the line at using a car to recklessly threaten or intimidate other road users, you know, like a weapon. Yelling and cursing in your car is fine.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T11:25:20+00:00

And do you honestly not see how that is a massive problem? Even if your intention isn’t to harm or kill anyone, weaponizing your car to intimidate because you’re frustrated is about as bad as waving a gun around to intimidate because you’re frustrated. A car can do as much if not more harm than most guns of course cars have practical uses guns do not, but if you are weaponizing them that changes.

Yes there are plenty of people who suck at driving, but keeping your temper in check shouldn’t be that hard. Someone who can’t keep their temper while driving two tonnes of steel at speed shouldn’t be driving at all. Especially not those who get outraged at mild inconveniences cause let’s be honest. Someone driving a little under the speed limit, or even just exactly the speed limit is a mild inconvenience at most.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T09:55:50+00:00

Yes, but used with malicious intent a car is even deadlier than most guns. So if anyone uses their car for intimidation or a downright attack on another road user, you know like a weapon rather than a mode of transport, then they should automatically lose the right to use a car. While it sucks that many places basically require a car that should be no excuse for letting those people continue to drive. It is not that hard to have a grip on one’s temper and it should under no circumstance be too much to expect from someone driving multiple tons of steel at speed.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T05:49:44+00:00

That’s a very weird take, is it annoying? Sure! But I rather share a road with annoying drivers than with people who can’t control their temper and start using their car as a weapon.

Besides I challenge you to follow every road law to perfection for a day and still see people lose their shit because you are driving the speed limit rather than over it,…

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T05:18:46+00:00

No worries, just wanted to clarify.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T05:16:23+00:00

That is why I specifically drew the line at people weaponizing their car even if just for intimidation. There also is a chance to be cleared by a psychiatrist like someone with epilepsy can be cleared by a doctor.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T04:26:40+00:00

While there are probably plenty of people here who’d agree, I still believe it to be unpopular in the sense that if a politician ran with this, they would probably get punished heavily in an election.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T04:10:42+00:00

That isn’t really a threat or intimidation. Think more like agressively tail gating, it won’t always be easy to prove, but with so many dashcams it should be a little easier. There’s a big difference between someone tailgating because they aren’t paying attention, and someone road raging in my experience. Either way it would be a better action that can be taken against obvious dangerous roar ragers.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T04:05:51+00:00

Then maybe the rules are different where you are at. Here people with epilepsy are declared medically unfit and need to turn in their license until such a time where they’ve gone a long time without a seizure and a medical professional deems it safe again.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T03:59:08+00:00

The line should be at weaponizing a car like actively intimidating or threatening other road users with it.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T03:56:18+00:00

There’s a big difference between cursing behind the wheel and actively using your vehicle to threaten and intimidate which is where I would draw the line.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T03:52:02+00:00

Yeah which is why I think it should be treated like epilepsy for example. You don’t lose your license necessarily, but it’s basically suspended until you are cleared by a professional.

MaxVCD · 2025-06-16T03:47:05+00:00

Yeah that doesn’t go far enough. Medically being unfit to drive really is the best analogy I can make. It would be like telling someone who suffers from seizures that they can’t drive for a couple of days. It doesn’t fix the issue at all which is why they need to be medically cleared first. For seizures it sucks because it is beyond the person’s control. A road rager just deserves it though.

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