{"id":4392,"date":"2014-09-08T07:35:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T21:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=4392"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:20:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:20:13","slug":"calm-the-farm-avoiding-road-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/calm-the-farm-avoiding-road-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"Calm the Farm: Avoiding Road Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Road rage is hardly a new phenomenon.\u00a0 Losing one\u2019s temper and exploding at some dimwit who has got in the way of your means of transport doesn\u2019t just pre-date the horseless carriage \u2013 it predates the steam engine, sprung suspension and four-wheeled forms of transport. Yep, back when horse- and ox-drawn carts had only two wheels and rivers were the best form of rapid transport, they had road rage. Or, more accurately, river rage.\u00a0 There is an Egyptian tomb painting showing two boatmen having a scrap, presumably after one has cut the other off or rammed the other.\u00a0 Archaeologists translated the hieroglyphics in speech bubbles and found that one of the boatmen is yelling \u201cTake that, you f***er!\u201d at the other.\"angry-driver-with-road-rage_100349832_m\"<\/a><\/p>\n

OK, so it\u2019s human nature to get annoyed when somebody just about takes you out because they were not looking when they were going. \u00a0However, the authorities these days take a stricter view of having a transport-related punch-up compared to the ancient Egyptians, so how do you avoid road rage?<\/p>\n

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  1. Get a decent night\u2019s sleep.\u00a0 This way, you won\u2019t be as irritable and you\u2019re also less likely to make mistakes that annoy other people.<\/li>\n
  2. Plan ahead and allow plenty of time.\u00a0 If you do everything in a rush at the last minute, little things that slow you down or cause delays are going to get on your wick even more.\u00a0 What\u2019s more, being late and in a rush gets your adrenaline going \u2013 the \u201cfight or flight\u201d chemical.\u00a0 You\u2019re practically priming yourself for aggro.\u00a0 So allow extra time for your journey and don\u2019t stress yourself out.<\/li>\n
  3. Everybody has the same road rights, whether they drive a big-engined HSV Senator <\/a>or a frugal little Suzuki Swift<\/a>.\u00a0 However, cars have different limitations.\u00a0 OK, so that old clunker hasn\u2019t whipped into a gap in the traffic at the intersection that you would have taken.\u00a0 This is possibly because said old clunker doesn\u2019t have the quick acceleration of your car and the driver knows it.\u00a0 So don\u2019t honk your horn.\u00a0 If you were going up a flight of stairs somewhere public and you were held up by an elderly person going a bit slow, you probably wouldn\u2019t yell at Grandpa\/Grandma for not going any faster.\u00a0 Have the same sort of consideration behind the wheel.<\/li>\n
  4. Remember that L-plates and even P-plates mean \u201cyoung and inexperienced driver who is likely to stuff things up, take things slow or do something unexpected\u201d.\u00a0 You\u2019re the adult, so act like one.
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  5. Be a courteous driver.\u00a0 If you avoid sudden lane changes, tailgating or cutting people off, you\u2019re less likely to tick other drivers off and get yourself on the receiving end of road rage.\u00a0 Look both ways before turning out of an exit before you move not while you move.\u00a0 And, for goodness\u2019 sake, don\u2019t text and drive!\u00a0 It\u2019s illegal for one thing and it does make you less aware of what other drivers are doing.\u00a0 Even if you do have blind spot sensors, crash avoidance systems and all the other safety features that you get on the latest models.<\/li>\n
  6. If someone does come storming up to your car swearing blue streak and waving fists around, apologise and admit you were wrong if you were wrong. Female drivers have the non-PC but effective option of getting tearful when menaced by an angry male driver.\u00a0 Forgive me, women\u2019s rights campaigners, but this one did work for me once.\u00a0 Stay in your car and don\u2019t rise to any provocation.<\/li>\n
  7. Give the other driver the benefit of the doubt.\u00a0 Perhaps that driver who seems to be up your exhaust pipe or who cut you off in a huge hurry is a doctor who\u2019s had an emergency callout or is a parent who\u2019s got a call from the school to say that their child is badly hurt.\u00a0 Perhaps the person who\u2019s weaving all over the place has a wasp in the car.\u00a0 Perhaps the person who is going slower than the speed limit is from out of town and doesn\u2019t have a navigation system, and is trying to read the road signs; or perhaps they\u2019re taking something sloppy and sticky to a potluck dinner and don\u2019t want to spill it by fast acceleration, cornering and braking.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Happy driving,<\/p>\n

    Megan http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/offers-zaim\/zaymer-online-zaymi.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Road rage is hardly a new phenomenon.\u00a0 Losing one\u2019s temper and exploding at some dimwit who has got in the way of your means of transport doesn\u2019t just pre-date the horseless carriage \u2013 it predates the steam engine, sprung suspension and four-wheeled forms of transport. Yep, back when horse- and ox-drawn carts had only two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4392"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11897,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4392\/revisions\/11897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}