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If you don't pay attention to other drivers, then you won't get road rage, but since you're not paying attention, you shouldn't be driving.
But once you start paying attention to other drivers, you're bound to notice what bad drivers they are, at which point, you will likely feel road rage, and you shouldn't be driving.
To get past that, you need to change the way you drive to compensate for the terrible driving around you. This way, at least the bad drivers won't interact with you too much. The easiest ways to identify the worst drivers are that they follow close, brake hard, and change lanes frequently.
You can minimize their interaction with you by driving better. And the number one thing you can do is to significantly increase your follow distance. Note that you're not driving slower. You're just following further behind. Don't get upset when people get in front of you. That's actually part of the point. People drive badly when they can't get into the lane they need to get into.
If you can change this one thing and follow further behind, you're well on the way to becoming a person who should be allowed to drive.
Following distance is the most common way I see people drive badly. On major roads I'd say 90% or more are driving too close. My car has automatic cruise control which makes keeping a safe distance require zero effort, though I have no idea how close it follows if you decrease the distance setting - I always have it 1 off max.
I feel like I should have paid attention to this comment. Or maybe not...