> it's just yet another symptom of how entitled these people feel to...well, anything It is and it isn't. There is something particularly ugly that happens whe

> it's just yet another symptom of how entitled these people feel to...well, anything It is and it isn't. There is something particularly ugly that happens when you put a person in a car. A driver, when walking down the sidewalk, would never spit on a slower walker in front of them. Cars (the actual physical things, the technology) amplify harmless human traits into fullblown sociopathy. Being distracted, impatient, inattentive, a slight sense of grandiosity ... in a car, these, sometimes even endearing, human failings become murderous, violent, degrading. The anger drivers express towards cyclists is not innate, it is not a kind of anger that finds expression elsewhere. That anger is specifically the result of _driving in an enclosed metal battering ram_. That kind of sociopathy only arises _in a car_. The real ugly part here is the car itself. Cars are dehumanizing technology because they create an incredible power imbalance. Once that power is frustrated, because of a cyclist for example, the driver will lash out. When men are reminded of their impotence, they turn rageful. Thousands of years of literature and history are evidence. It takes a complete paradigm shift, a whole new set of community values, to counterbalance this. America (and apparently UK) has not been building these. Other countries have. It will take decades.