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Instant Gratification
Instant Gratification People such as ourselves that were born between the years of 1982 and 1998 are classified as the Millennial Generation. There are approximately seventy-five million people in this generation who have grown up with technology all their lives. We love to multi-task, celebrate diversity, are well-educated, and are very compatible with multiple forms of advanced technology. Because Millennials have grown up with advanced technology, instant gratification is expected. Whether it be transportation such as cars or airplanes, communication such as cell phones or video chat, or (the third subset) things must be done almost instantaneously or people get frustrated very easily. Transportation is key in the life of a Millennial, and there are multiple forms of it. A large form of transportation is cars, and not for the use of going for Sunday drives but cars that are used to tailgate, pass, and maneuver around traffic as fast as possible. How often do you get tailgated on the way to work even if you are going the speed limit? Almost always someone is tailgating you even if you are going the speed limit or even above the speed limit. This leads to people getting angry and slamming on their brakes or even swerving around so that the person behind them can’t pass, which leads to road rage and possibly serious accidents. People in the Millennial Generation are used to driving everywhere, and driving very fast, and if something or someone gets in their way they will get angry very quickly. They need the instant gratification of getting to wherever they are going in the least amount of time even if they don’t need to be in a rush to get there, it is just the fact of having to drive fast to be there at all costs; this often leads to road rage and multiple accidents. In 2006 10,359 people between the ages of 16 and 24 were killed in a car accident by someone within the same age range; this number does not even include all the age range of the Millennial


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