ABSTRACT
This chapter elucidates the gendered implications of traffic culture in a theoretical discussion about how drivers relate to one another and to the law. It is based on a theoretical and empirical enquiry into traffic culture among drivers, with a particular focus on the relationship between the law, morality, and actual behaviour. The chapter discusses how drivers relate to the risks associated with the culture of automobility due to the fact that objective risks of traffic accidents are used as a moral yardstick among drivers to determine which actions are right or wrong. It contributes to improved understandings of the matter of moral and legal standards in car traffic interactions, and to grasp in what way drivers' actions and their way of thinking are gendered. In the wealth of possibilities that result from the reorganisation of time and space and society's associated geographical mobility, automobility is established as a risky practice from a material, cultural, and social standpoint.
