Originally Posted by
wphamilton
I doubt that many people, or even a few people, are angered by someone else putting themselves in danger. This is what a person might say, look at that idiot with a death wish, to rationalize his anger or inappropriate actions but that's not the cause of it. Actually believing it (which I also doubt) they would feel morbid fascination maybe. Resentment that the other person is doing something that they couldn't do or wouldn't dare. But that's not where road rage comes from.
My experience as a car driver - limited, admittedly - is that what makes me angry at pedestrians and cyclists taking chances (or just acting stupidly) in traffic is that I may end up hitting one of them. I, like most drivers, HATE that thought. It has nothing to do with envy.