Righteous Indignation: Driving Psychology

By Richard Madgin

This book isabout all of the things you feel when you drive your car and when you interact with other drivers.It explains,what you think and feel when you drive. Not only doesit explain the deeply evolved primitive motivations that shape your driving psyche, butit also explains how these primevalurges change your persona while you drive. Some useful tips are included on how idiots should improve their driving.This is donewith remarkably dry sarcasm. Chapters are short and easy to read and you will always want to read just one more, before you put the book down.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Dec 27, 2005
• ISBN: 9781467878678

Richard Madgin

RichardHunter has published articles in magazines and is a well established author of one book (this one). It is his debut and he has exploded onto the literary scene with this amazing best-seller. He cheated by choosing a subject that is close to all of is (those who drive) and a subject that we all regards as taken-for-granted but which is in fact something we all do but is totally unnatural!

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Contents

Introduction

Primitive Urges

Righteous Indignation

Accident Statistics

Alcoholic Drivers

Car Salesmen

Caravan Towing Drivers

Close Drivers

Daytime Headlight Drivers

Drivers’ Language

Elderly Drivers

Friday After Work Drivers

Front Fog Light Drivers

Large Estate Car Drivers

Learner Drivers

Lorry Drivers

Mini Drivers

Morris Minor Drivers

Mothers with Kids

Motorbike Riders

MPV Drivers

Off-Road Car Drivers

Reversing Drivers

Road Rage Drivers

Roundabout Drivers

Saturday Night Drivers

Single Parked Narrow Road Drivers

Slow Drivers

Small Car Drivers

Small Drivers

Speed Camera Drivers

Sunday Drivers

Turbo Diesel Drivers

White Van Drivers

Young Drivers

Introduction 

Have you ever wondered why many people drive too fast or overtake in dangerous places? This book unlocks and explains the primitive urges that cause this non-sensical behaviour which most of us have witnessed and goes on to give all of the familiar examples. When you read this book, you should be overcome by a feeling of sheer pleasure which I call Righteous Indignation as you recall having witnessed these events yourself.

Primitive Urges 

Driving is unnatural. It makes us exhibit behaviour patterns which match exactly our ancestors’ daily activities in their primitive lives, such as hunting, courting, impressing, showing off, being selfish, being generous, communicating with gestures, establishing rank or just simply hanging around.

If you consider that scientists think that modern mankind took around 400,000 years to evolve to his current state, but that modern technology such as cars, trains and aeroplanes have only been with us for the last 150 years or so, it is no wonder that driving a ton of metal at high speeds on tarmac roads is a totally unnatural thing for us to do, and yet we take to it like ducks to water and we think its perfectly normal.

When you start to drive, as a learner, your main focus is steering correctly (not hitting anything) and changing gear at the right time, operating the clutch smoothly and so on. However, as soon as you pass your test, and when