Tom Vanderbilt: the counterintuitive science of traffic

I honestly can’t tell if you actually drive like a total asshole and have no self awareness at all, or if that’s supposed to be a satirical post written from the perspective of those who do.

Translated into a context of domestic life rather than driving, that might read a bit like this:

“The problem isn’t that I aggressively expect everything to go my way all the time. It’s the damn spouse and kids who have their own needs, leave wet towels on the floor, and don’t bring me a sandwich when I demand it. They force me to yell at them, constantly belittle them, shove them, break their possessions, and arbitrarily endanger them.”

Does that turn things around for you? Or were you already consciously translating the language of self-justifying domestic abusers into terms of motor traffic to produce that post?

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