Aggressive Driving

I don’t have anything particularly Easter-focused to post today, but Easter is supposed to be a time of peace. So here is a message of peace, Arizona-style.

Maybe I’m prejudiced, but I didn’t expect Arizona to spend government funds on public safety campaigns, let alone to have such clever messaging. This was one of several Star Wars-themed traffic safety messages we saw on Arizona freeways when we visited over the Christmas holidays in 2015.

Aggressive driving is the path to the dark side.

Growing up in Arizona in the ’70s and ’80s, I remember it as an aggressive driving kind of place. By aggressive, I mean people would pull over to the side of the road to get into fistfights over abrupt lane changes or cutting someone off. So I’m sure these traffic safety messages to aggressive drivers are needed. I hope they work.