Well known fact, actually. Look at the psychology literature.
"Participants drove more aggressively when they were anonymous"
The Effects of Trait Driving Anger, Anonymity, and Aggressive Stimuli on Aggressive Driving Behavior - Ellison-Potter - 2006 - Journal of Applied Social Psychology - Wiley Online Library
"drivers were more aggressive in the anonymous condition than in the identifiable condition"
Traffic Safety and Human Behavior - David Shinar - Google Books
"Aggressive behaviour is more prevalent under conditions of anonymity and driving a car provides such conditions"
The Social Psychology of Aggression: 2nd Edition - Barbara Krahé - Google Books
Etc etc - many citations.
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Originally Posted by Tobra
You ignorant mugs need to learn about sarcasm and humor, Mr Higgins has it figured out.
What do you base this opinion on? Seriously, this is absolute conjecture.
Oh I see you expanded on this. You have a couple anecdotal incidents that allow you to read this guy's mind and the minds of the folks you cite in your supporting statements.
Here is a flash for you. The cyclists are shading the truth. I guarantee it happened differently than how they said it did. My guess would be that a couple of the riders took offense at something the driver did or said, maybe they whacked his car, said something about his mother or something. Did the driver over react? Certainly. Are the cyclists without culpability? I don't believe that for a moment.
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