Road Rage


Study: Where does your city rank among the road-rageous?

Listen up, all you people in New York, Dallas, Detroit and Atlanta. Settle down. You, too, Minneapolis. There's no excuse for the kinds of things you're doing out there on the road. That's right, we saw you. Well, not us, but your fellow drivers who tattled on a new AutoVantage survey about road rage. Those were the five worst cities for road rage incidents this year, with respondents citing hot-tempered drivers and aggressive speeding and horn honking. But wait – there are two sides to the road named rage. Something must have set off ... Read more →

Say it like you mean it with "nice parking" cards

Sarcasm, they say, is the lowest form of wit, but in some situations it's the only thing that will do. Take a poor parking job, for example. We've all been there, we've all seen it, and we've all had ...

California highway shut down due to road rage. Seriously.

California's Highway 138 was such a dangerous stretch of road that local authorities had taken to calling it "Blood Alley." To improve safety conditions and make the highway better overall for ...

Miami remains No. 1 city for road rage

We used to think L.A. had the most incidents of road rage per mile in the country, but when visiting the city of Angels last November for the L.A. Auto Show were surprised that it wasn't as bad as we ...

Rampaging driver takes a ride inside GA mall

Road rage hits the shopping mall. Augusta police have one Stephen Scott Lowe in custody following a pursuit through the Augusta Mall in Georgia. Apparently Lowe drove his SUV through some locked ...

Further idolatry: Looking to TV and movie stars to learn respectful driving 2 years ago on Autoblog

Because they're such stellar role models with cutting, well-educated insight on all matters, we should follow the lead of our favorite television and movie characters when on the road. We've been so impressed by the well-informed and thoroughly considered stances that many movie and television stars ...

"Road rage" may be result of mental illness 3 years ago on Autoblog

A recently-released study by the National Institute for Mental Health claims that five to seven percent of the population - perhaps up to 16 million Americans - suffers from Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED), or what could be colloquially referred to as "road rage syndrome". Symptoms of IED ...

Miami declared tops in rude driving 3 years ago on Autoblog

Perhaps its the fact that there are thousands of doddering septuagenarians plying area roads, but Miami, Florida has just been dubbed America's least courteous drivers. Or to put a finer point on it, they've got some road rage and rude driving issues. A new AutoVantage survey of 2,000 adult ...

Hagerty Insurance lists the Top 10 Driving Pet Peeves 3 years ago on Autoblog

Hagerty Insurance,arguably best known for their accomodating policies for vintage and competition vehicles, polled its customers to develop a top-10 list of things that tick them off while driving: Distracted drivers talking on cell phones Slow drivers in the fast ...

FCC lobbied by debt collectors to allow auto-dialing of mobile phones 3 years ago on Autoblog

According to the Washington Post, debt collectors are lobbying the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to again use automated dialers to contact mobile phones of debtors. Previously, collectors could use such technology but were banned back in 2003 as part of the FCC’s crackdown on ...

How to drive and park your vehicle the Feng Shui way 3 years ago on Autoblog

Raymond Catchpole, a feng shui expert, reports on several ways to improve energy flow around one's vehicle to combat road rage. Some of his suggestions include: Don't park your car facing your residence, as cars are "predators" which can create feelings of unease among the ...








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Chris, Dan, and Editor Paukert chat and give each other grief. Merriment ensues.

 
 

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