Traffic is already a dangerous hellhole when you're sticking to the rules
Agreed. Out here where I am atm on country roads everything's just dandy - with no traffic and miles of straight road with beautiful skies and mountains in the distance, it's as pleasant as could be and one is even tempted, occasionally, to sit at the speed limit. I still imagine and automatic turret popping up out of the bonnet and blasting away whenever someone speeds by, though, especially when it's a cop who isn't chasing anyone, doesn't have his lights on and is doing about 40 over the speed limit.
So much worse in the city (Melbourne) - so much panic everywhere. And drivers ignoring the basics.
The rule here is do not speed up until AFTER you reach the sign, and reach the 'slow down speed' BEFORE you reach the sign, yet I have idiots pushing away behind me to hit 100 the moment the sign hits the horizon. People seem to think the right hand lane gives you the right to ignore the speed limit.
Apparently the P in my Probationary license stands for 'Pissing You Off'.
90s - 2001
Console type, 2d arcade platform
Japanese
fairly generic futuristic blue-ish metal armor suit (but I don't think he wore a helmet)
low resolution
'by the numbers' kind of game
I was so going to say Megaman until I saw the helmet line.

Remember anything about the enemies or the story or what sort of gameplay was involved?
*goes back to reading about REBOL*