Occasionally when you’re driving, you’ll make a mistake and perhaps need to adjust and it can create some awkward situations. Like today, my dad ended up in the wrong lane to go straight instead of turn at a light. He had to cut in line to make sure we could go the right way. It’d be nice if we could communicate “sorry, I screwed up. Excuse me. I just need to slip in there.”
Right now all we have for inter car communication is the horn, which has kind of an aggressive implication to it. This is for trying to de-escalate potential road rage.
Traffic is generally bad in the city I live in. Years ago I was driving when someone accidentally cut me off. I started to get mad when suddenly the person who cut me off held up a sign I could see through their back window that said “Sorry!”. The car belonged to a business and they gave their driver a sign on a handle they could hold up if they needed to. It immediately diffused the situation and made me smile. Little things in life really help.
Warning lights. In France people do a short blink with the hazard lights to say thank you or sorry.
I think that’s fairly common everywhere
Not in Belgium. People would have no idea what is going on if you do that here. They would probably think you are about to have to slam on your brakes (hazards are put on when you have to abruptly slow down)
If you have time to activate your 4-way flashers before braking, you didn’t need to. And if you need to abruptly brake and you reach for the 4 way flasher, it too late to brake.
I heard this from the Balkans aswell, never seen it in Germany.
I would say its common in Germany as well
I used to have a car with a very aggressive horn and never wanted to use it because it did sound like I was cussing something out. I couldn’t get the light “beep beep” of communication, only the FUCK OFF ASSHOLE honk.
Now you have a different car and can use the horn as a communication by short tap tap.
But the wave is the apology. I have had people accidentally cut me off and when I swerve to pass have gotten a wave and mouthed sorry.
Various horn sounds is a good idea. I always wanted text messaging displayed on the vehicle.
Most drivers already don’t use or know 60% of the capabilities of their vehicles, adding more is just adding distractions to already crappy drivers.
Lane assists, cruise control, radar assists, parking assists, hazard lights, turn signals, oil pressure sensors, tire pressure sensors, fluid level sensors, driving modes, alternator charge readers, low gear throttle assists, hill assists, ‘fog’ lights, daylight driving lights, mirror defrosters, smooth braking modes…
I have been in so many cars and watched people just… Not use these tools and then complain about something related to it.
Can’t fix stoopid
Yeah, but just think: a message screen on the back of the vehicle could be used to display
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Even just emoji. A thumbs up and a middle finger could be a good start.
I thought about doing this with custom sounds a few years ago:
“sorry, I screwed up. Excuse me. I just need to slip in there.”
My problem with this is that the screw up is the slipping in. In other words, accidents happen and there’s nothing wrong with apologizing for something you already did by accident – but in this case, it’s preemptively apologizing for doing something on purpose that you know is wrong, cutting someone off because you already were late/past where you need to go.
If you cut someone off because you didn’t see them and you thought it was safe, that’s a good reason to apologize. Mistakes happen and it’s good to take accountability.
If you’re seeing that it’s not really safe and the other guy is going to have to slam his brakes because you’re going to consciously on purpose cut him off, then yeah you’re just being a shitty driver on purpose. Apologizing for something you knowingly did on purpose and will do again? That just makes you a liar on top of that.
This was my exact thought.
People who drive like they walk are either too stupid or ignorant to understand that there are over 3 LITERAL TONS of force being used to “just-squeeze-by, pardon-sorry.”
To quote questionably-ethically-dubious Louis CK, "BuT ThAt’S nOt My FaVoRiTe WaY!!!
If you missed your turn, that sucks, now you spend an extra 2 - 4 minutes going the long way around.
Be better, drive better, pay more attention. If you got unlucky and the road or signage sucks, oh well.
Was going to point out something similar. A good driver occasionally misses an exit. A bad driver never does.
OP, if you’re in the wrong lane and there are cars around you, you continue and find a way to get back on track in a thoughtout way. You don’t just cut into a lane where people can’t react to your action because they’re supposed to pay attention to everything BUT you. It creates a dangerous situation, in your case probably not life threatening, but you could mess up someone’s property to save 30 seconds.
This here. Once you are too late, you are too late. Just take the next exit and drive back.
No sorry could excuse a deadly accident.
I’m in Australia and I don’t honk at all when I’m in the wrong… I put my hand up passively at least twice, once when I’m being let in and second time when I’m leaving the intersection.
When I say “put my hand up” I mean I extend my arm, all my fingers are together like I’m saying Hi but the hand stays still… This symbol in Australia is what you do to say thanks to people letting you get in front of them and what you do to say sorry to people you’ve cut off.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but you’ve been heiling Hitler all this time
I flash my hazard lights a few times.
I’d love a 2nd quieter & apologetic horn in my car. When driving electric behind pedestrians it often takes them some time to realize that there is a car driving behind them, and I don’t want to use my regular horn to ask them to let me pass.
There’s already a gesture 🖐️ and there’s blinking your hazard lights.
In situations where you’re basically saying, “thank you for being a better driver than me,” opening your window and putting out your hand with all fingers fully spread is the correct gesture. For me at least, it dissipates my anger when someone has cut me off, because at least they’re acknowledging and apologizing. I usually assume the reason is because shitty GPS gave them impossible directions.
As a league of legends player, there is no signal that can universally be accepted to mean a specific thing. It would be abused by bad actors.
That being said, making a wrong turn is more acceptable than being an asshole or endangering other’s lives or property. Pay more attention or accept the consequences.
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A horn thats intended to mean sorry would be misused or misinterpreted on purpose.
Drive better so you dont need to apologize
Please point to the inconsistency
it’s not inconsistent, it’s just talking about league in a post about driving lmao
“This situation is a lot like this other situation, and it did not work out there, and people tend to have similar emotions in these two scenarios”
Road rage is no more logical than league rage, which is why i compared the two. An illogical person hearing/maliciously using a tool intended for genuine apology will very quickly be rewritten as the “youre a coward” horn or “you should be telling me sorry” horn or something dumb
Yeah but when people rage in a video game there isn’t a big car accident lol
If you don’t see the similarity, then maybe you don’t drive a car lol
Well i dont play league lol. Do you drive a car in league?
Yeah if only there was some way to signal “I want to go right” or “I want to go left” smh my head
I always thought you could do like a few different things on a screen running under the windshield or something. Even those analog card flip ones have been around since at least the 80s. Who knows though, it could increase road rage or something. What did they call it on pimp my ride, hatervision?
Lmfao imagine it gets stuck on like “go fuck yourself”
