The Causes Of Road Rage

Road Rage
Road rage is a serious problem that has been going on for a substantial amount of time. Incidents of road rage are normally very televised. Even some road rage deals with bikes, pedestrians, and cars. Amy Francis (2014), a road rage expert, stated that “Road rage is a violent anger caused by the stress and frustration involved in driving a motor vehicle in difficult conditions (pg. 10).” Road rage is a problem on highways and roadways everywhere. While road rage is not a new phenomenon, it has been occurring more than usual since the early 1990’s. Road rage has become very common in the past decades and there are many reasons why. Road rage has also even affected many things such as the American Dream. Self-driven cars could help …show more content…
As the population increases and roads become more crowded, there will be more symptoms of road rage. Overcrowded roads are the real and overall reason for road rage. The causes of road rage aren’t poor drivers or bad driver education, it’s that America is becoming more crowded. Since roads are becoming more crowded, road rage is becoming more common in America. Road rage has been known as becoming a last-gasp surrounding the American Dream because as the roads are becoming so bad about population and rage, they aren’t allowing people to go wherever, whenever they want. Road rage has occurred for a long time but has been occurring more in the past two decades as America becomes more populated and more people travel. Road rage is not caused because everyone is mean, yet that could be a problem, but road rage is caused because of overpopulation of roads creating people to get stressed out and put their stress against other drivers. Road rage has affected many things. It does cause the problems of the so called American Dream because if people must worry about road raged people when they go do what they want to do then they might just not try to live the American Dream. Overpopulation leads to road rage and road rage leads to dissatisfaction in enjoying the American Dream (Francis, 2014, p. …show more content…
Many road rage incidents have ended horribly while some haven’t. Not all road rage incidents have been reported which shows that there have been altogether many road rage incidents. During this essay, road rage, why people have road rage, and examples of road rage were explained. Road rage is an important topic as population increases and America keeps changing. Road rage is very important toward the American Dream especially as the increase in population occurs. As population increases, road rage will increase unless cars become driverless. Road rage is important because it deals with every citizen that gets on a crowded road. Anyone could achieve road rage because it is very easily caught especially if there is something else that is possibly helping with being stressed added to being stuck in traffic leading to road rage. Road rage is a problem that has occurred for a long time and has become more known in the last two decades. Preventions could help with these problems of road rage such as new roads, activities to make people calm, and self-driving