Or at the very least assault with a deadly weapon.

Road rage is why they did it, attempted murder is the crime.

It's a real phenomenon when talking about incidents involving two vehicles because you unconsciously dehumanize the person in the vehicle since you're not directly engaging with them, but their machine, and can't really see the person in it.

Same principle applies on the internet where people aren't seeing a person when they are verbally abusing someone online, which makes it much easier to ignore the empathic part of our brain. At least that's what I heard on the radio.

That being said, this one involves a cyclist so I'd just call it attempted murder too.

I felt like shit for bumping a guy's car at 5kmh because it snowed (not common here, so I was on summer tires) and I slipped while braking. He must have noticed it in my face because he cheered me up when he saw that the bumper didn't even have a mark

Can't believe some people would run into a cyclist head on on purpose and live with themselves after, dude's gotta have some anti social disorder

It's not a wise decision to hit someone's car to get their attention.

I assume he was on a bicycle in the earlier incident as well, not in a car.

With a car, sure. You tap your horn. You don't bump the car that is oblivious to the light change.

But the guy probably doesn't have a horn on his bike, isn't required to have one, and tapping the bumper with your hand is not going to hurt the car in question.

There are things that bicyclists do that very much annoy me, like blowing through red lights, riding the wrong way on the road, and riding with no lights at night. Tapping my bumper isn't one.

Tapping a bumper made someone tried to murder you? Nah dude, something is seriously fucking unhinged with many Americans and it needs to be called out way more. So many are so eager and trigger happy after one small interaction. Why is it ok to go insane after someone taps your car?

And it's disgusting that we believe it's justified to protect possessions with deadly force. Shit can be replaced a persons life cannot.

Here in the US, from grade-school on, we’re taught to protect possessions with deadly force.

Don't know where you grew up, but sure as fuck not where I grew up.

It isn't.

The intent matters - terrorism is to use terror from the act to influence decisionmaking of other people not involved in the accident directly (to send a message with your actions/war/policy/attacks/extreme-passive-aggressiveness/etc).

What St Luigi did also wasn't terrorism, but the wealthy group that somehow identifies themselves as the same scumbags as that healthcare CEO are a bunch of entitled delicate flowers that want to stay where they are & they indeed have the power to send a terrorist message back with what's happening to Luigi.

If disposing of a CEO counts as terrorism, this should too. Not that I think it is but the bar has been lowered.

I dont know...

Non-state attacker; politically motivated; intent to spread fear...

Seems to tick a few boxes.

It's because driving a car is the most dangerous thing a regular person is doing on a daily basis. Behind the wheel you are just one wrong motion away from killing yourself and others. All while risking your single most valueable mobile possession.

Even if you compartmentalize that away and try to ignore it, it is a still a constant stressor.

That makes people get angry.

That phenomenon is so well-known that Disney was making cartoons about it 75 years ago.

It's because for many people, driving a car comes with a certain entitlement. And why wouldn't it? Especially in the US, where drivers are fully accommodated to with infrastructure, crazy roads and all kinds of drive through stuff?

It's even noticeable here in the Netherlands. Lots of people I know that are very kind, mellow people turn into insane road ragers the moment they get into their car.

Ok. I think you need to touch grass. Thats a terrible hot take. Just because you have mentally dificient parents. Doesn’t mean the rest of us are like that.

Same as anyone on a plane with or without a box cutter. Intent is what matters. A car is a deadly weapon just like a gun. This post depicts someone pulling that trigger.

Even when a person unintentionally discharges a firearm that causes harm, they are still accountable. Culturally this must be how driving is held to account. In court, this is absolutely the case, but ignorant cultural norms lag very far behind.

I was physically disabled by an incompetent driver that broke my neck and back while commuting to work by bicycle. I was a top level amateur racer. I am not dishing out hypothetical nonsense or prejudice. Auto insurance doesn't even scratch the surface of the liability one will face in court for injuring a pedestrian or pedestrian-cyclist on the road. Any remotely skilled attorney will start the case in the 7-8 figure range regardless of your present net worth. If this driver is caught, the cyclist will own them, like driving their car, living in their house, and inheriting their parent's fortune. I would absolutely force an auction at my expense to sell the shirt off my assailant's back after something like this to watch them walk into homelessness naked. Pull that trigger and I am coming with no mercy and taking everything.

I like the idea