Not sure it’s just limited to driving. Lots of self entitled cunts everywhere.

You're safe in your box and it dehumanises all the other road users a bit

I've had this theory for a while that it's an Id/Ego thing. My very basic understanding of those two things is that Ego is what the world sees and Id is all your internal unfiltered behaviour. I reckon that when you get into a car, that car becomes what the world sees and you, as the consciousness safely inside it, instinctively revert to being more Id led. You feel safe and enclosed so you stop filtering your behaviour the way you would walking down the street.

As someone who has driven in different countries though, terrible behaviour is absolutely not limited to the UK. In France I experienced drivers who actually go out of their way to ruin your day. In the Middle East it was an almost complete lack of caring at all and a comically enthusiastic attitude to risk taking. In Greece everyone seemed to be ok with today being the day they die on the road and in Argentina people just pointed their cars in a direction and hoped for the best!

I think people find driving stressful because they struggle to operate machinery more than they are comfortable to admit

Modest mouse has a whole song about it.

Car dependency on streets that are too small for cars

Number of times I was almost run over in a crosswalk by someone blowing a red light:

• car:0
• cyclist: 2

Getting cursed out by the dickhead running the red is a great experience. #vancouver

(downvotes? You think that's not the number?)