Road Rage

It has become apparent in my essays that I know one thing or two about driving behavior. My background in advanced driving rehabilitation has given me opportunities to explore and to help correct several esoteric driving disorders ranging from freeway phobia to hand controlled driving for quadriplegics, from brain injury driving modification to driving evaluation for at risk drivers. A web of expertise has been spun and woven over 17 years and I will generously share my know how as time permits.
However, my observations and my reflections develop and shape themselves, as I am alone in the car.
As I crisscross cities and counties, I have noticed that during the last 5 years, Road Rage has become a phenomenon that has reached unbelievable proportion. Road Rage is augmenting exponentially and will reach a status of an epidemic road disease.

The stressful lifestyle, the bombardment of required expected daily tasks, the need to process increasingly fast information, the multitasking under the umbrella of information super highway, the lack of time, the lack of affordability of California lifestyle, drain all of us from any down time to reflect, to meditate, and to silence our mind.

Many tasks, usually dealt with at home are now transferred to the commuting time in the car. So the car has now become a fully integrated office with blackberries, cell phones, lap tops, etc… and has severely handicapped the concentration and serenity necessary to operate a vehicle safely.

Multiply the spiral of these activities by millions of drivers to understand where we are headed: a driving war zone.
Understanding where we are all headed is ‘the first step to recovery’.