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Driving Behaviour differences
From time to time, even the best of us are prone to getting annoyed while driving so we surveyed 1,300 UK drivers to find out whether we react differently when driving than we would in similar situations in public. From time to time, even the best of us are prone to getting annoyed while driving. Whether it's due to heavy traffic or someone else driving badly, we're all occasionally guilty of a slight bout of road rage. But do we behave differently behind the wheel compared to how we would in everyday life? Here at InsuretheGap.com we decided to find out. We surveyed 1,300 UK drivers to find out whether we react differently when driving than we would in similar situations in public. We asked our respondents a series of questions about how they feel inside and outside their cars, how they behave in each environment, and whether driving makes them more aggressive or impatient. The results were enlightening.
It turns out that two thirds of us believe we act differently behind the wheel of the car compared to the rest of our day-to-day lives, as 35% of drivers admitted to being less patient in the car and 32% agreed they were more aggressive. As these results show, we are around twice (in some cases almost three times) as likely to get annoyed or react aggressively when we're driving compared to in everyday, public life. So what is it about being inside our vehicles that changes our behaviour so much? We put that to our survey respondents too, and these were some of the top reasons.
Safety - 1 in 5 of the UK drivers said that they feel safer in their cars than they do outside. Us Brits are notorious for our aversion to confrontation, so it may be that the physical boundaries of our vehicles make us feel more secure and free to air our grievances.
Soundproofing - Of the drivers we surveyed, 27% admitted to acting less patiently and more aggressively because they knew nobody could hear them. In your Espace, no one can hear you scream!
No repercussions - 18% of our 1,300 drivers behaved more aggressively because there is far less chance of ever running into the person we've shouted at again if we've only seen them for a few seconds over the dashboard.
Easy getaway - The same number of drivers also answered that it was easier to get away after a confrontation. The awkwardness following an argument is clearly not an issue when you can drive away afterwards!
As well as assessing the population as a whole, we also analysed our results by age demographic, which brought up some interesting comparisons between the younger and older generations of drivers. 17 to 24-year-olds were over twice as susceptible to suffering from road rage when compared to the over-55s we surveyed, with 55% of the younger demographic having been guilty of it, compared to just 23% of the older set.
Gen Z drivers were also almost three times as likely to be more aggressive while driving than in person, with 49% of our 17 to 24-year-old respondents admitting to this, compared to just 17% of over-55s. Interestingly though, there was one trigger that was far more likely to anger the older generation: other people driving badly. 62% of over-55s have got annoyed by someone else's poor driving, compared to the national average of 44% and 36% of younger drivers.