[TorqueDog]

In my own experience, I find I tend to get more annoyed at fellow motorists in my SUV than in my sports car, even though my 'fun and spirited' driving happens in the latter and the SUV is more of a comfortable, rolling lounge. My music, hell the entire experience is more chill in the SUV, but drivers are seemingly more frustrating when I'm in it, and I think I've figured it out.

In the car, I can usually not see much ahead of the vehicle in front. It's low. I have a better chance seeing if their rear mufflers are corroded than anything happening in front. Ignorance is bliss.

Whereas in the SUV, I have a full, commanding view of their sheer ineptitude, idiocy, and lack of confidence on the road.
- I can see there is an entire right lane available for you in front of that parked car to go into to make your turn, but you insist on leaving your fat inconsiderate ass hanging into the straight-ahead lane such that no one else can safely go around you and get through this traffic light.
- The alternate of the first, I can see you do have enough space to safely pass a turning vehicle and proceed straight-on, but you refuse to because you bought a vehicle that is too big for you to estimate width and you clearly think you're maneuvering a bloody aircraft carrier down 8th Street SW.
- I can see there is half a football field of space in front of you to proceed through this intersection, yet you insist on going 15 KM/H as the light is counting down because you've suddenly began pondering if putting googly-eyes on a French baguette qualifies it as a pet (or something similarly unrelated to pressing the goddamned accelerator).
- I can see there is no one else in front of you nor beside you, but you won't move your ass over and get out of the left-hand lane -- despite the long queue of vehicles behind you -- because in ten minutes there will eventually be someone going slower than you in the other lane and this just seems like the most efficient way to do things.

I try to hold myself to a reasonably high standard on the road when it comes to being considerate because the last thing I want to be is that slow, spaced-out, inconsiderate ass that everyone hates driving behind; I try and get my ass out of the way if someone is going faster than me on the higher at the first opportunity. I make sure I get my vehicle into the turning lane in its entirety where possible, and I proceed as soon as it is safe and legal to do so. And when people don't do those things and I can see how bad they are at driving, it is a royal nuisance and makes me hope you have tables with sharp corners at home and you bounce your toes off of them at full velocity every chance you get for the rest of time.


Larger vehicles apparently do have an association with more aggressive behaviour, but I don't think 'perceived sense of power and safety' alone are the entire story when you consider, again, that the driver can actually see everything else going on in front of them.

At least I don't do dangerous, stupid sh-t in retaliation. Usually just sigh "what a f--kin' idiot" and get on with the drive.