{"id":39101,"date":"2014-05-14T00:41:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T04:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39101"},"modified":"2020-07-12T00:41:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T04:41:53","slug":"were-number-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39101","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re number two!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-39102 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/roadragefight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/roadragefight.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/roadragefight-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autovantage.com\/Road-Rage\/Atlanta.html\">Source<\/a>: Atlanta drivers are the second-least courteous drivers in the United States. Such assessment based on a survey claiming statistics of \u201croad rage\u201d characteristics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Although I don\u2019t refute that Atlanta is a city that most certainly fits the bill of being full of discourteous drivers, and its share of bad and\/or idiot drivers, I don\u2019t necessarily agree with AutoVantage\u2019s criteria of what is considered road rage. When I hear the term \u201croad rage,\u201d I\u2019m picturing people demonstrating acts of retaliation when they\u2019re cut off, or people getting so angry with one another that they mutually seem to agree to pull off to the side of the road, and get into an actual physical altercation. Some of the things that AutoVantage surveyed people on, well, aggravating or foolish as they may be, not all of them I\u2019d agree are necessarily acts of road rage. Rage-inducing, sure, to some capacity, but definitely not contextually correct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">2nd most likely to see other drivers eating or drinking while behind the wheel<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">This is not an act of road rage. This can <em>cause <\/em>road rage, if the act of consumption is causing the driver to go below the speed limit, swerve aimlessly, or put others at risk, but it\u2019s not like they\u2019re eating out of anger. It is definitely discourteous to others, but it\u2019s not an act of rage.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Most Likely to acknowledge tailgating someone else<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Depends on the context. Lots of people in Atlanta tailgate, because they believe putting pressure on the car in front of them will make them vacate the lane so that they can get to where they want to go. Once they pass, the conflict is over, in those cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But if someone tailgates because they\u2019re pissed that someone got in front of them, or they stalk another car and ride their bumper deliberately, then it\u2019s kind of ragey. And it goes without saying that anything ragey is automatically discourteous.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Most likely to see another driver speeding<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">How is seeing another car speeding indicative to road rage? It\u2019s no secret that lots of people in Atlanta drive like retards, at speeds that should easily get their licenses revoked and serve some possible jail time, but it still happens on a regular basis. I can cruise at 80 mph, and then get passed as if I were standing still two seconds later. But this doesn\u2019t mean that someone is raging, it simply means that they are recklessly speeding.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Most likely to admit purposely bumping another driver in reaction to perceived poor driving<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Okay, this is rage. Now I\u2019ve only lived here for 11 years, but I\u2019ve never once seen anyone <em>deliberately<\/em> hit another car. I haven\u2019t even seen any real incidents of combative road rage, for that matter. The picture above was apparently out from California, where it was probably Los Angeles, the supposed worst traffic in the country. But here in Atlanta, I\u2019ve never seen anyone get so ragey, that they voluntarily commit expensive monetary damages onto their own vehicle to create expensive monetary damages onto someone else\u2019s vehicle that would undoubtedly be <em>their own<\/em> fault.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Regardless, the people who answered that they would admit to colliding with another vehicle are as full of shit as the rest of the answers they and everyone else privy to this supposed road rage survey are. No doubt 100% of these people would hit and run before they would confess to deliberately hitting someone else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Atlanta is certainly a city full of discourteous drivers, clearly among the country\u2019s worst, but it\u2019s not necessarily all a result of road rage.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Atlanta drivers are the second-least courteous drivers in the United States. Such assessment based on a survey claiming statistics of \u201croad rage\u201d characteristics. Although I don\u2019t refute that Atlanta is a city that most certainly fits the bill of being full of discourteous drivers, and its share of bad and\/or idiot drivers, I don\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39101\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We\u2019re number two!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,15,143,105,10],"class_list":["post-39101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cars","tag-og","tag-ohatlanta","tag-rage","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39103,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39101\/revisions\/39103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}