{"id":19,"date":"2026-07-11T03:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinedriversed.org\/drivingschool\/?p=19"},"modified":"2026-07-11T03:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:58:08","slug":"what-to-do-around-aggressive-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinedriversed.org\/drivingschool\/what-to-do-around-aggressive-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Do Around Aggressive Drivers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If another driver is acting aggressively toward you, the best response is to disengage completely. Do not try to match their behavior, defend yourself, or make them understand that they are wrong. None of those things help, and all of them escalate the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Your goal is to create distance between yourself and the aggressive driver and to avoid any response that they might interpret as a challenge.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not make eye contact<\/li>\n<li>Do not respond with gestures or expressions<\/li>\n<li>Give them as much space as the road allows<\/li>\n<li>Change lanes or routes to put distance between you<\/li>\n<li>Stay calm and do not speed up to match them<\/li>\n<li>Stay inside your locked car if they try to stop and confront you<\/li>\n<li>Call police if you feel threatened or followed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If another driver is acting aggressively toward you, the best response is to disengage completely. Do not try to match their behavior, defend yourself, or make them understand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinedriversed.org\/drivingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinedriversed.org\/drivingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinedriversed.org\/drivingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinedriversed.org\/drivingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinedriversed.org\/drivingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlinedriversed.org\/drivingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/onlinedriversed.org\/drivingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinedriversed.org\/drivingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinedriversed.org\/drivingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinedriversed.org\/drivingschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}