I don't buy it. Especially this: "Instinctively, we want to be kind to each other, especially out on the road. When you first meet a stranger, unless you're a

I don't buy it. Especially this: "Instinctively, we want to be kind to each other, especially out on the road. When you first meet a stranger, unless you're a mugger, you want to be nice to that stranger." The author himself admitted a couple paragraphs before that he really wanted to speed up at a traffic light instead of stopping, thereby risking running a red light. This "Don't want to wait" is one of the many examples that come to my mind and contradict this "We're all nice, deep down in our hearts" idea. You can remove traffic lights - if you reduce cars to a crawl/make them the least priority. Treating pedestrians and cars as equals won't work in my opinion. Betting safety on a hippie idea [1] doesn't sound compelling either. 1: To be fair: I _like_ the idea that we're all just totally trying to be nice to each other. It's just .. very much not true in my experience, especially among strangers.