Amaxophobia and Aviophobia
You probably know both of these by their more commonly used names: fear of driving and fear of flying.
I say “probably,” because these two phobias are by and large the most common on this list. One study published earlier this year found that between 33% and 40% of flyers report feeling some sort of anxiety when it’s time for takeoff, with a small subset—between 2.5% and 5%—getting anxious enough to be classified as having full-blown aviophobia. Stats on amaxophobia, on the other hand, are harder to come by, but researchers have found it closely linked with the post-traumatic stress disorder people typically feel after getting out of a car crash. And honestly, can you blame someone for not wanting to get behind the wheel after that?
Even ignoring your run-of-the-mill wreckage, companies like Tesla have given us so many other nightmare scenarios for drivers to panic over. There are driverless cars that probably shouldn’t be driverless, battery issues that cause vehicles tocatch fire with the driver inside, and, of course, this asshole.
