I'm a relatively new driver: I have had my permit for about five or six years and had let it expire before renewing it and becoming truly serious about driving. When I was 18, my dad took me out to a giant parking lot to help me get used to operating this new, powerful machine and for whatever reason, I'd always leave with a big headache. Maybe it was stress or being unaccustomed to driving, so because of that - and the fact that I didn't have all that much pressure to learn how to drive - I wasn't all that serious about getting my license. But the older I got, the more the need to get on the road escalated: Getting a job, needing to travel, being sick of asking for rides and taking trains and buses to get to college... I was tired of it. Plus getting caught in the rain multiple times on the way to work or the train station was mighty old.

Nowadays, I've completed my 5-hour, my lessons, and I've been on the road long enough to get annoyed. One question keeps popping up in my mind: Why are drivers so aggressive?

Look, I get it: I'm from and live in New York and we are notoriously aggressive people in general, but I'm pretty annoyed that I can follow the law to a tee and still have some driver on my tail. There was a person who legitimately tried to blind me with his headlights and followed me into a neighborhood for no reason; he was just being an aggressive driver. One time my aunt was driving me home from the mall and when she was trying to merge onto the highway when some guy in the next lane tried to push her car over after tailgating her for a few minutes - he nearly crashed into her car (with the added touch of throwing us the bird) just because he felt like it. He legitimately had no reason.

Are we in that much of a hurry to get somewhere that we need to try to intimidate other drivers into following our demands? When I'm much older and experienced, I'm sure I will have a different tone but I don't want to forget how angry this behavior makes me.

Roll your eyes at me all you want, but driving is something I take very seriously (blame the driving instructors I've had, okay?!), and I'd rather not get into a crash anytime soon... not that anyone really does. I love to drive and while I'm nowhere near the World's Best Driver, it frankly unnerves me that people don't seem to understand the privilege they have behind the wheel. Congratulations, you have experience driving; it still doesn't validate your aggressive actions. These driving laws were made to keep us safe and to let us get to where we need to go in one piece; the speed limit is not the minimum, people. Let's start protecting each other, not honking your horns because someone is obeying the laws; it simply isn't worth getting into a crash crash.

This article does not refer to the drivers are legitimately awful behind the wheel - you do what it takes to keep yourselves and others safe. This article does refer to the aggressive drivers who try to intimidate and harass another for no adequate reason.