Originally Posted by
alicestrong
"Cagers" ...good...it's a little more specific to me and indicates a certain "type" of driver...maybe one who shouldn't BE driving in the first place. Cager speeds, drinks and drives, flips other drivers off, buzzes riders, lays on the horn and maybe doesn't even have a license and/or insurance. Cager might text or use their phone illegally.
You get the idea...
But if as NOS88 claims "cager" is just a slang term for a driver and it carries no pejorative intent, then you've just accused all drivers of drinking and driving, speeding, and buzzing cyclists, et cetera. Do you do these things when you drive a car? I only do a few of them, speeding and phoning. Phoning, btw, is not illegal yet in my state.
If this is not you, I would think you'd want to refrain from using it and proliferating more separation.
Cars on roads are a fact of life. First, if you own a car, them is us. We need to learn to live with them, not attempt to browbeat them out of existence. That will fail.