Look Out: There Are 160 Million Angry Drivers On The Road

Summer is driving season—and, it appears, fuming, cursing, and ramming season as well. In a survey released today by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 78 percent of the approximately 205 million drivers in the U.S. reported expressing significant anger, aggression, or plain old road rage in the past year. More than half reported purposely tailgating, and 47 percent said they had yelled at another driver. About 3 percent said they had bumped another vehicle on purpose. That may not seem like a lot, until you consider that it’s 5.7 million drivers. About 4 percent (7.6 million drivers) reported that they had gotten out of the car to confront another driver.