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I’m driving less. I don’t want to see the world through a driver’s eyes any more
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It is crazy how angry car drivers can get. Saw someone screaming out their window at another driver today over some pointlessly small inconvenience.
I pointed and laughed.
When cyclists and pedestrians accidentally inconvenience each other we just laugh and give a little wave. I think once you remove the cars from the equation, which removes the "I could kill you at any moment by depressing my foot" vibe from the encounter, it's a lot easier to be pleasant to each other.
You're right. Often, the primary emotion is fear when something goes wrong when driving. But it gets pushed out as anger.
The other factor is that driving is a lot more frustrating than walking or cycling, at least in the city. Stop-and-go causes stress to build up because you feel like you don't have control over your actions most of the time. That doesn't happen with walking.
There's a scene from the original Gundam that I think about a lot in this context.
The MC, having just gotten inside his giant death mech for the first time, is ordered to shoot some enemies (who had been trying to kill him just a moment prior) fleeing the battle. He couldn't do it.
The next fight that breaks out, those same enemies are back, in their own giant death machines, and the MC stops to think to himself "this is much easier, they don't look like humans now". Then he starts firing his laser.