My Third Non-Oral Outline

The Road Rage Spectrum

Road Rage and Aggressive Driving: Steering Clear of Highway Warfare, Dr. Leon James and Dr. Diane Nahl, Published by Prometheus Books, 2000, p. 84-96.

By Robert Lee

I. Passive Aggressive Road Rage

a. Non-confrontational hostile reactions to drivers who make you feel uncomfortable or threatened.

b. Passive-aggressive road rage is as dangerous as other types of road rage, because you never know what someone you’re blocking is thinking.

c. Pennsylvania State University researchers did a study about parking stalls and found that people who see someone waiting for their stall take 11 seconds longer to get out of their stall, than if someone was not waiting. They feel like they can do this, “because they can.”

i. If they got honked at they would take even longer.

II. Verbal Road Rage

a. Is when you constantly complain about traffic/ keeping up a stream of mental or spoken attacks against other drivers/people.

b. EVERYBODY DOES IT!!!!!!!!!

c. Why do we do it?

i. It’s a form of short-term relief from some frustrated drivers

ii. However it injures their self-esteem and promotes an alienated culture of discontent.

III. Epic Road Rage

a. Fantasizing “comic-book” roles and extreme measures against another driver.

i. Things such as chasing, beating up, ramming, dragging, shooting, and killing, sometimes to the point of acting on it.

b. Epic road rage is a product of fantasizing comic-book roles.

c. Epic aggression is confrontational, combative, harsh, defiant, and very wrong.

Helpful Websites:

http://www.drdriving.org/articles/book_toc.htm

http://www.drdriving.org/articles/testimony.htm

http://www.autoblog.com/entry/3487373394083684/

My Homepage:

http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leon/409as2005/lee/home.htm