Very stupid, careless, and reckless! One should always, always try to get away and do everything possible to deescalate the situation. Never try to follow them, get the heck out of Dodge and as far away as possible, it isn't worth the risk.
I've had more than one potentially deadly encounter with road rage. And despite my attempt to go the other way, I've been chased down, and ended up having to draw my weapon. This has happened twice, once several years ago, and once about 40 yrs, ago. In one of those situations I got cornered in a culdisac, but while trying to get away I made a wrong / bad turn. And although I had drawn my weapon, the 4 perpetrators were still assaulting my vehicle, they had smashed my windshield, both door windows, and were trying to get me out of the car. Just as I was down to no other option but to shoot, they were driven off by a near by resident who fired a shot into the air from a shotgun.
In the most recent incident, I had become trapped at a stop light, and as he began to approach my car with a bat, I pointed my firearm and yelled "get back, I'll shoot", the enraged driver broke off his attempted assault. As soon as the light turned, I went the opposite direction.
GS