Road Wars

These people will take a 15 second clip and turn it into a 10 minute segment, playing and rewinding 3 seconds at a time over and over (always with a commercial break before anything of significance happens) then coming back and playing EVERYTHING you just saw before the commercial break, then finally showing the "big" payoff. And of course they add a generic hyper-percussive music bed and and overly dramatic narration breathlessly explaining how everybody involved was a split second from death. Sometimes they even ask the person who recorded the video to add their utterly useless commentary: "So I was on the way to the Piggly Wiggly to get some eggs for my grandma's 75th birthday cake because my roommate had the last two for breakfast when I saw a truck..." OMG SHUT UP.

Even as background noise, this is pretty bad.

At least 1 full season should be mandatory viewing for all new drivers and every 4 years when you have to renew your driver license. Because at some point, we all get frustrated with our fellow drivers, and we have all made driving errors, like accidently switching lanes without looking, running a red light, etc. And lost our temper, albeit not to the same extent as some of these raggers, but I have hit laid on my horn, etc.

Watching one episode has reminded me to keep my cool, regardless of what the other driver does and not to engage with irate or irrational drivers and pedestrians. Because I really think people who rage to the point of these extreme, is because there is something in their personal lives that's stressing them and they take out their emotions on strangers.

Along with the action, the narration promotes safe driving and gives actual national statistics. You will gasp, make spontaneous verbal commentary, and shout out loud during the scenes. The video footage is from car cams, motorcycle cams, bicycle cams, cell phone video, and police cams. It's not just about road rage, accidents, and fights. It's also about simple driving errors, neglectful drivers, plain stupidity, medical crises, faulty cars, and more. The best part is the humanity, spontaneous kindness, and heroism of everyday people...and a spot of humor to break the intensity. Overall, this is why I drive like I am the only sane person on the road.

How much actual content does each show actually contain?

They seem to run about 21 minutes without commercials, but between the constant replaying the same material over and over again, the 15 second slow down plays, then playing it back again at full speed...

It is impressive how they can take a 30 second ciip and expand it into 10+ minutes.

Terrible.

The concept is good, but all they have really done was taken the classic "road rage" videos that are freely available on YouTube and repeated and looped it to death whereas on actual YouTube you can easily watch an hour of non-repeat, non-looped content.

I 100% love everything about this show, however you never ever comment on THE DRIVER IN THE WRONG when a left lane driver refuses to use the lane CORRECTLY... by passing drivers on the right and yielding right to drivers behind them. To make things WORSE, they're intentionally slowing to same speed as vehicle to the right AND BRAKE-CHECKING. THEY ARE THE INSTIGATORS, *NOT* the one behind them. No, it's not ok to ride up on them or get aggressive. Not ok at all. BUT it's so frustrating when drivers don't use the left lane correctly and intentionally escalate the obvious frustration of the driver(s) behind them. Just yield right and get out of the passing lane. Don't make things worse INTENTIONALLY! Your show NEVER EVER says anything about this. You ALWAYS blame the one who, yes started out inpatient, but take that part into account. The emotion or possible explosion of that driver that no one else on the road can control but can easily light their already short fuse. Just light them right on fire by stupid tactics such as not passing, not yielding right and brake checking. It's IT'S NOT JUST THE ONE DRIVER THEY'RE F@CKING WITH... it's everyone around/behind them and it's dangerous. START COMMENTING & EDUCATING ON THIS BECAUSE BRAKE CHECKING AND NOT USING LEFT LANE CORRECTLY ARE VIOLATIONS AND DRIVERS DO GET TICKETED, OR WORSE (DEPENDING ON THE END RESULT THEY'VE CREATED) Educate your viewers instead of blaming it ALL on the inpatient driver behind someone who is obviously chilling out in their own world but really in the passing lane. When they're awoken by a tailgater they're feelings get hurt. So to intentionally and knowingly escalating the already volatile emotions going on behind them is in the wrong. PERIOD. So someone got too close behind you... So damn what?? GET OUT OF THE WAY INSTEAD OF TAKING IT PERSONAL AND INSTIGATING A WHOLE THING THAT ENDANGERS EVERYONE AROUND & BEHIND THEM. Wake up and use the lane correctly. If we could enforce lane laws our traffic backups would drastically decrease. All it takes is one left lane abuser or just a plain idiot oblivious to why there ia more than one lane and how they're used.