[Terry C]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

This will probably open a can of worms when I should just keep my mouth shut.... but this is so similar to the other thread talking about the "younger" generation who wants things handed to them. God forbid we actually address the real issue: drivers who can't drive, cell phones (distracted driving) and the like. Train drivers better? Raise the age for licensing? No.... no, lets make the problem 10X more complicated than it really is. Drivers ed is ridiculous now days. Too many things have been taken away to the point that you don't really drive. ABS, traction control, auto-park, collision avoidance is already out and being used on the higher end cars. The mirrors get smaller, and now instead of actually looking around your vehicle and using the mirrors, they give you a nice little screen on the dash to stare at while backing. NO THANKS. I'm happy to say that I've had a class A CDL since I was 19 and on the driver test backed up to a clipboard that the (very HOT) woman giving me my test was holding out. I think I was about 18" from the board..... and that was after doing a corner back on the driver side into the spot she told me to put the truck. I did all this from my not so comfy seat in a 1977 International Trans-Star 4300. Big cam Cummins with a PT fuel system (those who know what I'm talking about will understand), with a 15 speed Eaton non-synchro trans. No mirrors on the hood. You'd be lucky if you could get most drivers now to do that with a car.... and a back-up cam.

Yeah.... it's the "car's fault". That logic sounds familiar....... where have I heard something like that before?

100% correct!
I think if you get cutoff by somebody talking on a cell and you follow them and take a baseball bat to their headlight that's justifiable road rage in my book!
It's just like gun control, God forbid we punish the person who did the crime cause it must be the guns fault