Driving on the road poses all kinds of dangers, hence motorists requires other motorists to trust one another. One of these mentioned dangers is aggressive driving. In a collaboration article, written by C.M. Wickens, R.E. Maan and D.L. Wiesenthal, titled “Addressing Driver Aggression” illustrates that forms of aggressive driving are an incorporation of personal and situational related variables and by analyzing and figuring out how to utilize these variables to develop and establish proper strategies to mitigate aggressive roadway demeanor. Wickens, Maan and Wiesenthal begins with a firm abstract then follows up creating their credibility with hard facts and using various reputable sources, citing trustworthy information and statistics, then
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The roadside environment that motorists see and hear is full of noise that negatively affect their concentration; urban areas where there are aggressive billboards and the way the sounds of other vehicles create a concrete jungle that provokes other motorists from keeping their eyes on the road.2 Also offensive acts by other motorists can provoke an aggressive response to other drivers. Like a domino effect, one aggressive driver is all it takes since some drivers will retaliate aggression with aggression. 3 These facts and the other statistics that they presented are a few of many that logically supports that the environment can play a huge role in the incidents related to aggressive …show more content…
Their goal was to get readers to not necessarily sympathize to a certain type of person but to show an image that type person would or should feel in that type of situation and effectively shows the gravity of these situations. Especially on the parts where mental health and drugs plays a role, he authors use words like “arrogant”, “selfish”, “vengeful”, “anxiety “and “anger”.5 All of these words evoke negative feelings, which then the reader would feel mixed feelings towards people with mental illness or have an addiction. This shows that many aggressive drivers suffer a form of problem, like mental illness, and many people will not bother to understand them or that can not look past it and only look at the face value which is their aggressive driving. By bringing it up clarifies or might even justify why these type of drivers can commit certain
The roadside environment that motorists see and hear is full of noise that negatively affect their concentration; urban areas where there are aggressive billboards and the way the sounds of other vehicles create a concrete jungle that provokes other motorists from keeping their eyes on the road.2 Also offensive acts by other motorists can provoke an aggressive response to other drivers. Like a domino effect, one aggressive driver is all it takes since some drivers will retaliate aggression with aggression. 3 These facts and the other statistics that they presented are a few of many that logically supports that the environment can play a huge role in the incidents related to aggressive …show more content…
Their goal was to get readers to not necessarily sympathize to a certain type of person but to show an image that type person would or should feel in that type of situation and effectively shows the gravity of these situations. Especially on the parts where mental health and drugs plays a role, he authors use words like “arrogant”, “selfish”, “vengeful”, “anxiety “and “anger”.5 All of these words evoke negative feelings, which then the reader would feel mixed feelings towards people with mental illness or have an addiction. This shows that many aggressive drivers suffer a form of problem, like mental illness, and many people will not bother to understand them or that can not look past it and only look at the face value which is their aggressive driving. By bringing it up clarifies or might even justify why these type of drivers can commit certain