I’ve never seen a red arrow! It seems particularly unwise, in that there would be no way for a red/green colour blind driver to know whether to go or stop, unless, perhaps, it had been placed at the top in a vertical set of lights or extreme left in a horizontal set. But even then. . . .
Just to clarify - my husband gets pissed off at all of the other drivers - it’s not MY driving. It’s anyone who wants to share the roadway with him. He’s always yelling, screaming, flipping people off - it’s gotten so I don’t want to drive ANYWHERE anymore. Unless I’m alone. It’s becoming far too stressful.
I’ve seen them on left turn signals, but not right (that I could think of.) And a left turn red arrow definitely means “don’t turn left” even if the main light is green.
A red arrow means different things in different states. In Washington state it’s the same as a red ball but in most states it means no turn on red.
Been driving since 1973, so I guess that’s 40+ years now.
I learned a long time ago that almost all traffic problems can be solved by an alarm clock. So my commutes are relaxed and unhurried. No road rage from me.
As a recipient? Been a victim of serious road rage twice (that I remember).
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Apparently I was an extra in the movie “Duel”. Only I was in the big truck and the aggressor was in a tiny little car. To this day I don’t know what set him off, but he played cat and mouse (swerve in front/slam brakes/swerve into my lane/try to force to shoulder) for about 6-7 miles. I eventually stopped, and let him shriek at me thru the window for 5-10 minutes while the cops I’d called arrived. I was never in any danger as I could have pushed his little toy car into a ditch at any point. I chose to await the police, since da’ Law tends to punish those who end fights, not those who start them. They led him away, and I never heard any more about it.
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I made a lane change goof and got chased (and brake checked) for several miles by an angry man in a luxury car. It was my mistake, but the reaction was way out of context. My diesel truck had full tanks and was headed for a town hundreds of miles away, so I just kept going. He tired of the game after we were 10-15 miles outside the city limits. Again, I could have sent him into the ditch at any point I chose, but elected to just outlast him (same reasons as above).
Thanks for this. It really puts things into perspective for me, in a way I hadn’t before thought of so succinctly. Mind if I use it?
Define road rage first. I do not do things like cut people off, flip them off, or show any anger towards other drivers. The easiest way to avoid road rage is do your best to not feed any aggression into the situation, IMHO. So move over and try to avoid any further problems.
I do however, get irritated on a daily basis at how seemingly easy it is to get a drivers’ license in this country. Compare with, say, Germany. I was on vacation there, and therefore starry-eyed in my assessments, but I was struck at how precise and orderly the other drivers were. (Yes, I see the joke. Thanks.) Well that, and how incredibly fast things were happening on the A4.
You can’t change how other drivers do their thing. All you can do is your level best to avoid them and accommodate their seeming desire to run you off the road.
Never.
**Pedestrian **rage, however… that’s a near daily basis!
As a driver of a blue/purple Volkswagen New Beetle (by choice, because purple is cool), road rage is put upon me on a daily basis. I will get cut off at an intersection at least once per drive. At least once a week I will have someone tailgating me close enough where I can read their text messages reflecting on their glasses (an exaggeration, of course, but I’m doing the speed limit or better). Cutoff on highways without blinkers. Passed in no-passing zones. I get my line-of-sight blocked frequently by people squeezing their way by at stop signs.
Drivers in Massachusetts are either aggressive as all hell or there’s something about a guy driving a purple VW that makes people snap.
I don’t recall if I have ever been the target of “road rage.” This could be due to my almost impenetrable bubble of delusional self-satisfaction.
I’m a good enough driver and still I make the occasional accidental bonehead move. Rather than assume the worst I just assume that’s what’s going on when someone invades my space. If someone is dick-driving (tailgating, weaving, changing lanes several times a minute) I just do what I can to keep them in front of me. Maybe they’re a dick, maybe they’re having an emergency and really need to get someplace in a hurry–either way, no good will come from me playing traffic cop and trying to curb them.
I can’t recall someone intentionally messing with me in the last 10 years or more.
As a bicycle rider, quite often. Some people take out their inadequacies on cyclists. I guess they think that I can’t catch them, but I have in two cases where people purposely ran me off the road. I kicked out one guy’s tail lights and in the other I emptied a full water bottle in his face.
Usually I just wave (with all fingers extended) and smile, but I’m cussing under my breath.
BTW: I know that some cyclists are azzhats who take up the road by riding three across and run stop signs. They deserved to be ticketed by the police if their actions are illegal like any other user of the roads.
Used to loudly comment other drivers’ behaviour on the road until wife put a stop to it with “they cannot hear you but I can - and I dont want to” 
I don’t experience much road rage. In the three times I remember, it’s usually involved an aggressive driver to begin with, and I happen to be their target at that point in time. Another circumstance which comes to mind, are people who attempt to block merge areas, though even that is just poor driving discipline/etiquette, as opposed to targeted rage.
The only other time I have to deal with aggressive drivers, happens to be people who try to instigate races. While equally dangerous, it’s not incited by rage.
That said, I keep any personal rage inside of my car. 
The majority of road rage I do see, is typically reserved for slow, overly hesitant, or oblivious drivers, and people who blatantly break the law/make bad driving decisions, followed by their response to the very people who are upset with them, fault or not.
If you’re “victimized” 5-8 times per month by the behavior described in the OP, you are almost assuredly a shitty driver.*
I am not the most considerate of drivers, but nobody even gestures at me more than a few times a year, if that.**
*For instance, drivers who constantly complain about others “cutting me off” tend to be the folks who like to weave in and out of traffic at high speed.
**Odd how many drivers signal their intentions in sign language, though.
The Automatic Turn Lane?
That’s dying out in favour of telepathy.
Oh hell, there are so many idiot drivers out there that I am constantly muttering to myself while I’m driving. But I very rarely actually honk or yell at another driver.
There was one particularly memorable incident a few weeks ago though. Girl makes a right turn on red without even slowing down, much less stopping. Cut off the guy next to me in the right lane and pulled straight into the left lane right in front of me. I slammed on my brakes and laid on the horn and was probably looking pretty animated behind the wheel. About two blocks later blondie pulls into a left turn lane, and as I pass her, boyfriend on the passenger side is flipping ME off!
Honestly, I get irritated practically every day, but I keep my cussing to myself. I don’t see any point in honking or gesturing or yelling at a driver who is clearly already oblivious to anyone else on the road. Better to just steer clear or, as someone else mentioned, stay behind them so you can avoid the inevitable accident they will cause.
I try not to let drivers in line when there is a construction merge when it is lining up a mile back & they zoom all the way to the choke point & try to force their way in.
As a motorcycle rider & former bicycle rider, I get a bit cranky with cage drivers.
Wife’s favorite is, “Go right ahead, the speed trap is about a ½ mile ahead.”
I am amazed at how often people get so mad at us when on a bad road with no room to pass & when we get people stuck behind us we pull off in a drive way or some such to let them pass & we get road rage from them?
People are not near as good as dogs…
Christ, do I hate it when people start merging a mile back. One of the few things on the road that really makes me angry is the early mergers, because then I have to fucking merge early, lest I seem like an asshole, for no good reason whatsoever, and there’s people who zoom up the lane anyway and merge at the logical point, where the lane actually ends. I wish society would just freaking decide to merge at the actual merge or put a sign designating a singular merge point, because otherwise, you have people merging everywhere from the merge point all the way back to the first inkling of a possible merge coming ahead. It’s dumb and just makes everyone angry.