Adversarial attitude to road use

[SPman]

I stopped when i got to here (so havent read any other posts) but this was my absolute favourite part about China Crossing the road was an awesome adventure everytime

Isn't it just!
It was those bloody electric scooters that gave me the shits - you couldn't hear them coming from behind !

[vifferman]

Jesus H Leprechaun! You entirely missed the point of the original post.

It is clear, as slowfox says, there is actually so little aggressive driving on our roads.

Oh - why so I did.
I had actually intended to reply to that bit; I guess that's what happens when you're trying to watch a DVD (BlueRay, actual) and play on the Interdweeb at the same time.

Yes, I too have had very few examples of really aggressive driving; I guess that for most people (psychos and P-heads excluded), there's a line that they just don't cross, except under exceptional circumstances.

I had one psycho guy, mebbe 15 years ago, that kicked in the rear door of my Subaru one night, in a fit of road rage.

While commuting or riding the bike in D'Auckland in the last 10 years, I've had some fuckin' stupid drivers cut me off, not see me, or otherwise unintentionally endanger my life, including one who caused me to crash my newly repaired VFR750, and one who u-turned into me, writing it off (not long after the repairs from the other eejit).

I can think of only one (1) example of deliberate "I don't give a crap" fuckwittery, and that was a few years back, I was riding down Onewa Road one lunch time, in the right-hand lane. In the left hand lane ahead, there's a roadwork truck, with a big flashing arrow on the back. Behind me, and in the left lane, is a dickwad in a Falcadore ute. Rather than slow slightly and change lanes, he plants his foot and accelerates, and steers to the right. There was NO way he could have not seen me there - he just didn't care. If I hadn't braked REALLY hard (like emergency braking), I would've been fucked. I followed him till he turned off, but there was nothing I could do, and I guess he didn't care, so there was no point confronting him. I had nothing with me to record his rego, and what use would that have been? I was really, really pissed off, and felt really impotent.

[Motu]

Looking at it over several decades I think we are getting better.Driving in Auckland was very cut throat in the '70's and '80's,and I had damage to my vehicles from forcing my way,or stopping others from getting their way.Also had physical road rage upon my fragile body.However as more Kiwi's travel overseas and experience other car cultures,they bring back better driving skills...and also immigrants from other countries bring their driving styles too.There are more cars,but overall I think we are far better than we used to be.

Short memories here....and some not long enough....

[slofox]

and felt really impotent.

...there's little blue pills for that y'know...

[CookMySock]

Once you have been on the road for 30-40 thousand hours you give it up. It's too stressful to be feasible long-term.

I just want to go where I want.

Steve