According to China Daily (6 June, an auspicious day!), the University of Chicago has identified the cause of road rage, temper outbursts and alike: it is called in medical terms “Intermittent Explosive Disorder”. Now we just have to wait for a new Valium or something. There is a great market waiting in China, Beijing in particular. I don’t know if it could help reducing the urge of local driver to use their horn. I actually find most of the local taxi drivers to be rather calm and not yet suffering too much from “IED”, I just don’t know how they do. Maybe Chinese tea helps?
Some day I will need a prescription too but for the moment I still wait to get my drivers license (again). Saves me money on my medical bills for the time being. I was driving in Beijing in the eighties and in Shanghai in the late nineties but looking at the growing traffic chaos I wonder if my nerves could take it. Every day new drivers contribute to the mess – many of them with driver licenses they buy on the black market – no tests needed. I miss the easy and relaxed driving in the US, whatever the Chicago people found out.