What’s really happening out on the roads

The archetypal automotive commercial shows a car gliding down a road on which there’s no other traffic—a scene you’re unlikely to experience unless you do all your driving in North Dakota or some such unpopulated place. These ads seem doubly preposterous now that the shows surrounding them are increasingly given over to some semblance of “reality.” Auto dealers who wish to give their advertising some verisimilitude should consult a new report from an organization called AutoVantage on the incidence of road rage in various locales.