There is nobody as entitled as a driver.

Fast personal transportation is so high utility that people will dismiss many externalities. If you offered teleportation anywhere in the world except it would pick a random African and kill him at a 1E-6 to 1E-4 chance (depending on your skill at Tetris while being teleported), I suspect many in the West would do it without a question.

He's specifically harassing people who are literally stopped:

“Then he sees it: a driver idling in the late afternoon gridlock while scrolling his phone. Perfect.”