Road Rage Research Paper
Susan Berg
English 155
Mr. Campbell
10/20/2011
Cause and Effect Essay-Road Rage In today’s society, it seems that there is an increasing amount of vehicles on the nations road ways, therefore, increasing the chances of road rage. Many people are moving to areas that more inclusive to their jobs, their children’s schools, or areas where housing is more affordable. This is adding to the chances that more and more people will become aggressive and you will experience an episode of a driver that will address their anger or emotions by road rage. Other causes of road rage today may include the addition of our teenagers in a hurry to get their driver licenses so that they may drive back and forth to school and pick up their friends, and a lot of parents are okay with this because it takes a burden off of them and frees up their time schedules so that they don’t have to take time to and pick up their kids and chaperone them all over. This causes an additional fluctuation of vehicles on our roadways, and we can almost bet that at least once, there will be an altercation between a teenager and an unhappy driver on the roadway first thing in the morning, especially during rush hour …show more content…
There are a lot of drivers on the road who are in possession of a drivers license who have not taken a written or a visual eye exam in years because they have such a clean driving record. But the factor not being considered is that they are elderly and not able to drive safely and therefore should not be able to drive a vehicle. They either drive too slow, or change lanes without looking; or leave their turn signals on and keep on driving. The Department of Motor Vehicles needs to be more proactive in monitoring these drivers based on age so that they can safely maneuver on the road and not add to the factor of road
English 155
Mr. Campbell
10/20/2011
Cause and Effect Essay-Road Rage In today’s society, it seems that there is an increasing amount of vehicles on the nations road ways, therefore, increasing the chances of road rage. Many people are moving to areas that more inclusive to their jobs, their children’s schools, or areas where housing is more affordable. This is adding to the chances that more and more people will become aggressive and you will experience an episode of a driver that will address their anger or emotions by road rage. Other causes of road rage today may include the addition of our teenagers in a hurry to get their driver licenses so that they may drive back and forth to school and pick up their friends, and a lot of parents are okay with this because it takes a burden off of them and frees up their time schedules so that they don’t have to take time to and pick up their kids and chaperone them all over. This causes an additional fluctuation of vehicles on our roadways, and we can almost bet that at least once, there will be an altercation between a teenager and an unhappy driver on the roadway first thing in the morning, especially during rush hour …show more content…
There are a lot of drivers on the road who are in possession of a drivers license who have not taken a written or a visual eye exam in years because they have such a clean driving record. But the factor not being considered is that they are elderly and not able to drive safely and therefore should not be able to drive a vehicle. They either drive too slow, or change lanes without looking; or leave their turn signals on and keep on driving. The Department of Motor Vehicles needs to be more proactive in monitoring these drivers based on age so that they can safely maneuver on the road and not add to the factor of road