That's a lot of them yes but there are a tonne of people who aren't at all selfish in that particular way who are instead just completely anxious behind the wheel. Perhaps we could say they're actually also very selfish since they could at least go get some defensive driving lessons and maybe even some therapy to make them better motorists for all of us on the roads.

Either way the amount of people I know who are horrible to be in the passenger seat of, that make the most bizarre decisions due to being anxious behind the wheel is crazy.

People who aren't confident motorists are so dangerous. They often delay making a move that is perfectly acceptable that is part of the regular flow of traffic and instead due to pausing for much too long make a final erratic move that is dangerous.

Also, I kid you not. Some friends of mine were passengers of a guy we knew one time a couple years back. They were coming up to a set of traffic lights and the dude who was driving was distracted in the conversation they were having. Guy isn't a confident driver at all but the move he made here is beyond baffling.

Luckily this intersection wasn't the busiest because due to his distraction he somehow missed the light that was turning red and ran it and no cars t-boned them.

But this isn't the baffling part. That was just a careless mistake. When the passengers pointed out that he was about to run a red, his instinct wasn't to immediately evaluate the situation and then decide what defensive maneuvers he might need to make if he was unable to stop in time due to his speed.

Instead as soon as he was reaching the lights he let go of the wheel and put BOTH hands over his face, covering his eyes as he ran the red and drove through the intersection. They reckon he might've also been able to make a stop a bit further over the line but still be in a much more safe position against the oncoming traffic from horizontal lanes.

Even if he wasn't able to react in time to make a stop, he didn't do anything to try and prevent a crash while crossing the intersection. Literally tried to let God take the wheel. They had to yell at him to put his hands back on the wheel as our friend in shotgun took the wheel with one hand through the intersection.

Again. Luckily they were unscathed but that is just incomprehensible levels of incompetence not to mention dangerous.

Even though that is an extreme example, anxious motorists can be dangerous due to their over caution and lack of skills or just inability to react in certain, even common, situations. Freezing up is an especially dangerous move they often make. We all see it all the time.