Some combination of "angry" grilles and the pseudo-anonymity of driving makes people act like complete animals. A fun one I noticed was driving to the beach thi

Some combination of "angry" grilles and the pseudo-anonymity of driving makes people act like complete animals. A fun one I noticed was driving to the beach this summer. In the parking lot, there was a tension in the air that a fight could break out at any second for a parking spot. People were driving aggressively, cutting each other off, honking, having their passengers get out and stand in a spot to "claim" it, etc. Then, they got out and walked 50m to the beach. Instead of fighting for a "spot" people just move along peacefully. There was no tension, no aggression, just a few thousand people getting sunburnt in peace. I'm not sure what the point is, but it really made me think about how strange our behaviour is. As soon as we're back in "human scale" environments, we go back to behaving like humans.