We grow up in a car society where we watch our parents drive with road rage. We also see it in movies, car commercials, and car talk. People insist that they have the right to be outraged at bad drivers, drivers who are inconsiderate and incompetent.
People argue that if a driver is really rude, they have permission to retaliate.
This is road rage reasoning. Road rage reasoning is a rigidified way of thinking that gives you no leeway for mistakes and other extenuating factors. All human activity can be realistically expected to have an average error rate of between 4 to 10 percent, according to safety and injury experts. Driving is a very complex activity so there are many opportunities in a single ride to make mistakes. For example, when drivers are on an unfamiliar road, they instinctively slow down to give themselves time to take in the signs, the layout.