Car Factualization

Having experienced road rage as well as being consumed by it, I have made a notable observation this day. Consider this: you are driving in rush hour traffic and as the space in front of the vehicle in front of you becomes available, he/she accelerates to fill that space as quickly as possible to maintain a desirable arrival time to the individual's place of residence. You are now presented with a number of choices (there are never really two), but for the sake of my point and the free time you're sacrificing to read this, let's say you have two choices. Your first is to repeat this individual's pattern and speed up, only to slam on your brakes in the hopes that you will move along more quickly. This is a terrible idea for a number of reasons including wasted gas, the wearing down of your brake pads, as well as for the traumatic radical effect you leave on the traffic behind you time-wise. If everyone repeats this pattern, traffic becomes stop and go and the further back you are, the less you move. Observe the next time you round a curve on the free way when this is happening. You will see the cars a distance in front of you move ahead and brake. It's like a wave effect that takes a long time to reach the back of the traffic. Your other option, should you choose to accept it, and I really really truly hope you at least think about it, if you don't already do it, is to lag drive. What I mean is, instead of flooring it up to the car in front of you and axing your brakes, just let off the brake, and let the car idle drive. Sure, if you're like me, you don't want that asshole who doesn't merge right away, to cut in front of you, but people usually don't take advantage of the open space unless they need to move over. If anything, it'll be some schmoe who speed-brakes the car in front of him/her and you'll be laughing all along. Not only are you now saving a little more gas and sparing your brakes the harsh life of an armadillo on a road in Texas, you are also allowing the traffic behind to continue moving. Thank you for your time. Now, I have to create another argument for the ignoramuses who don't understand the concept of merging or the difference between merging and yielding!