• TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      Just to add a bit: in my country blinking your emergency lights (when all of your turn signals are going) for 2-3 times as a thank you is very common. It’s even considered rude not to use them e.g. after you were let in.

      I don’t know if that is something in other countries. I live in Hungary.

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      More complicated extension to this. I want a collection of standard of messages that I can send to other drivers while driving (like 6 buttons max). Some standard low distance wireless (probably based on or just Bluetooth)

      Like:

      • “Hey check your car its got something wrong with it”
      • “Hey you’re in my lane”
      • “Hey slow down it’s dangerous here”
      • “Hey watch out road hazard ahead”
      • “Go ahead”
      • “I’m going now”
      • etc

      Just flashing lights, horns, hand gestures, and yelling out my window is a freaking game of charades man!

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        11 months ago

        Basically, I like the idea of a quieter horn, and a regular horn. But we need like driving emotes, rather than the tea bagging hello equivalent

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      11 months ago

      I’ve always wanted car to car commutation not through horns but radios or loudspeakers.

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        11 months ago

        You thought internet trolls were a nuance… Just wait till they can bother you while driving.

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          This. I’d only accept this if everyone, and then I mean EVERYONE on the road has the patience of a saint and the radio discipline of an airline pilot at all times. I’d be fine if the most threatening you could ever expect is a “four six golf victor delta niner, your blinker is still live and your tail light is out, be advised, over” but you just KNOW there’s gonna be someone who’ll go “HEY YOU removed IN A WHITE VAN! STAY OUT OF MY FUCKING LANE OR I’LL END YOU AND YOUR MOTHER!”

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            I remember reading on that other site at some point about airline pilots and the ‘guard’ channel which is supposedly used for shitposts. Any pilot on here that can confirm? This about the discipline of airline pilots.

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            11 months ago

            Thank you Lemmy for censoring my comment. And I guess we lost exactly zero energy with the profanity removed 😅

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      11 months ago

      Flash of high beams do work in some cases, but require that they are in front of you