>> I think they just have trouble paying attention.<<
Which brings up one of my “pet peaves”. I honestly believe that most “agressive drivers” are safer than the law abiding “asleep at the wheel” people. I don’t know about other “agressive drivers” but when I am driving I am thinking about driving. I am thinking about escape routes. I am thinking about what boneheaded move the driver next to me might make. I am watching minute movements in the front tires of other cars, head movements, you name it.
Meanwhile, the “safe” drivers are obliviously pushing their two tons at 60 miles an hour just praying nothing out of the ordinary happens.
Then they see my headlights flashing in their rear view mirror...
And they decide to teach YOU a lesson. How did we get to the place where Americans want to keep other Americans from simply driving a little faster than them? What happened to make them so insecure and stupid. Oh right, liberalism.
I was making a right turn onto the highway. There were two cars pulling into the right turn lane so I pulled out. Suddenly, a car is in my rear view mirror. The second car had realized that the first car was getting off the highway and whipped back onto the highway. I pulled off onto the shoulder because the car showed no sign of slowing and was going to rear-end me. The car passed me and got two car lengths ahead when the driver suddenly realized that something had happened. She slammed on the brakes and fishtailed all over the road. Luckily I was way behind her by then and on the shoulder.
I bet she almost dropped her cell phone when she did it. She did the same thing at the next exit. Followed a car onto the exit and then whipped back onto the highway. Still yakking on that phone.
It also makes me wonder if the legal driving age shouldn't have like a 4 year "junior" period. There is stuff I used to do that I would never do today - like driving through the middle of a parking lot, etc... that a lot of young kids just don't think about. There is a dirt connecting road near me that is used as a short cut - last winter I saw 4 teenagers standing on the road, with their 4WD pickup nose down in the stream below. They though 4WD means "immune to ice on turns".