Life Is A Highway: Study Confirms Cars Have Personality

Many people see human facial features in the front end of automobiles and ascribe various personality traits to cars -- a modern experience driven by our prehistoric psyches

Generally, the headlights were marked as eyes; the nose tended to be the grill or emblem; the additional air intake slots, the mouth

96 percent agreed on whether a car was dominant or submissive

In a finding that suggests perhaps there is a hidden road warrior in all of us, study participants liked power vehicles best -- the most mature, masculine, arrogant and angry-looking ones

do people extend the perception of the car to the person behind the wheel? And does that affect how drivers interact with other cars on the road?

our brains have been designed to infer a great deal of information about another person

from just a glance at their face

As a result, we are tempted to see faces everywhere, even in clouds, stones and, yes, cars