A sense of entitlement, superiority, ownership and narcissistic behavior. When someone is alone behind the wheel, the worst part of their personal behavior comes out. I guess this applies to the people who rage seemingly without much reason. The tailgaters, the weavers and the revvers.
The rest are people who are stressed, and then feel as though they e been put in danger by someone else on the road. That stress comes out as anger. And the instances of poor drivers doing dangerous things are increasing, so this reaction is probably happening more.
These are probably 50/50 of rage incidents. The Johnny thing was vehicular homicide, so I don't think that it could be identified just as road rage. That's a cop out by the driver, but I think that it's likely he would fall into category one and not two. It takes narcissism to pass on the shoulder.
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