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he's the kind of a guy that made the automobile people think up hydraulic brakes a new survey of over a thousand US drivers about what drives them insane about other drivers done on behalf of Expedia found that number one is as you might imagine the texture or the caller or the Weber Wall driving driver and or it's someone fumbling with their phones that's accounted for a huge 69% of outrageous the tailgater came in second at about sixty percent and then the person who was otherwise distracted multitasking separate from texting that came in at fifty four percent these are the big three nearly seven in ten Americans report that they have been flipped off by a fellow motorist eighteen percent admit returning the gesture right an eighty five percent of the drivers surveyed said they're pleasantly surprised when they get a thank you wave from a fellow driver that's kind of sad now road rage would seem to be all about people right but a study done by the Texas Transportation Institute not long ago found that actually a lot of that stress that leads to road rage and aggressive driving comes from the way roads are laid out not just the way people behave turns out the yellow line can make you see red and notorious traffic spots in Dallas traffic flow was reworked three ways new lane signage and Lane striping that explicitly directs all drivers where in the lane to merge and how using the zipper method for example the use of photogrammetry to clear accidents and rubber necking faster photogrammetry simply means taking clear detailed photos of the crash scene and then getting out of there and doing accident measurements later from the pictures and late merging or lanes in using signage directing cars to go to the far end of the disappearing Lane and merge there via the zipper instead of making it informal or some cars will go to the end and irritate the other lanes and other cars will try to merge early and waste lane space in any event it pays to double-check yourself when you feel your blood boiling on the road it's not worth it and hopefully Road designers will pay attention to the fact that the way they funnel us into each other and go a long way toward causing problems