Originally Posted by
genec
But that is you... Don't you understand that some folks cannot just turn off their reaction to that sort of aggression?
You cannot take little "Miss Timid" and expect her to simply turn off aggression in her head. It simply doesn't work that way. Yet Miss Timid has as much right to ride on the roads as you AND the aggressive driver.
How are you gonna make that work in your classes?
I'll intimidate the hell out of her in class until she's inoculated.
I've known people who are too intimidated by freeway speeds to drive on freeways. They have as much right to drive from SD to SF as anyone else, but given their phobia it's impractical for them to do so. We don't have an obligation to make it easier for them, and we don't have an obligation to make it easier for Miss Timid to get over her propensity to be intimidated when cycling in traffic either. But that doesn't mean we can't try to help, and VC instruction is the best approach I know.