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Look out: There are 160 million angry drivers on the road

Summer is driving season and, it appears, fuming, cursing, and ramming season as well.

By Amrith Ramkumar | Updated on July 14, 2016
AAA found that men were more than three times as likely as women to ram another vehicle on purpose or get out of the car to confront another driver.(Photo: Thinkstock)

(Bloomberg) – Summer is driving season — and, it appears, fuming, cursing, and ramming season as well. 

In a survey released today by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 78% of the approximately 205 million drivers in the U.S. reported expressing significant anger, aggression, or plain old road rage in the past year.

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