This they call the Shula Syndrome , named after the wife in a popular radio soap-opera The Archers. Traffic is literally driving people crazy. The mental strain can also cause neck pains, high blood pressure and ulcers. 3 Drivers undergo a Dr Frankenstein transformation when they slip behind the wheel. Such anger, writes sociologist Jack Levin comes from the emotions innate to being in a car.
People have the illusion they can t be tracked down, that they re going to get away with it.
Because of that a car is the worst place to keep a gun. In the Third World, where strained budgets mean roads are often poorly maintained, traffic deaths are routinely 20 to 30 times higher than in the West. You d think that something which caused as much violent death and suffering would have been banned long ago. But not the car. People seem oblivious to its impact.