OT Can anyone help me understand the psychology of, stupid idiot drivers? Options

[wbergtho]

Driving home the other day on a road trip, in my 914, I notice up ahead...on the other side of Interstate 94 (around Eau Claire, WI) an accident with a large number of ambulances and cop cars...lights flashing...the whole bit. WHY DO PEOPLE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE ACCIDENT (SEPARATED BY A 100 FEET OF MEDIAN) HAVE TO SLOW DOWN TO 25MPH?!! Sure, I get curious too...but I don't slow down at all...I take a quick look and keep driving...MY SPEED UNEFFECTED! The idiots ahead of me were stacked up like they were on a checker board so I unleashed a quick burst of 500 HP V-8 anger as I slalomed through the barricade of morons. Of course, one of the dumshits hit his horn as I flew past him. It's an Alice in Wonderland world now isn't it? The left lane is now the slowest lane...people speed up when you try to pass...etc etc (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

[Dr. Roger]

i was racing a biathalon (bike leg) up bonnie dune road up the west side of the santa cruz mountains and a bunch of bikers were racing past bunches of bicyclists. a motorcyclist and his passenger overtook a group of bicyclists and had to make a hard right but went wide and went head on into a car. he died instantly and she was not injured.

by the time we caught up with the drama the highway was flooded with his blood and she was just standing there speechless. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

everyone stopped.

seeing a human body splattered in the middle of the road changed my life.

have you ever stood on the side of the road with drivers speeding past you at 65MPH while talking on the phone? it's downright dangerous.

i think people should slow the hell down while driving past an accident on the highway.

a screen might reduce the slow-down a bit but having 3000lb cars speeding past you 5 feet away doesn't reduce the risk of the victims.