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.

  • AAA@feddit.org
    73·
    12 hours ago

    “Sorry I endangered your life, but I cannot be bothered to reroute for a minute.”

    Yes mistakes happen, but the healthier solution is for people to accept the consequences of their actions. Your view is a manifest to the egocentric society we decry every so often.

    If someone crashs into you doing an invasive lane change (or any other mistake correction) I hope you’re thankful for them not adding to the world’s wasted hours.

    What the fuck man.

    • hirihit640@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      43·
      12 hours ago

      Endangered life? Where did OP say they endangered someone’s life? It could have been a lane change in stopped traffic. Which is 100% safe, albeit a bit annoying to the person you cut off. I assume OP knows the difference between annoying and unsafe.

        • hirihit640@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          12·
          10 hours ago

          If the lane next to you has stopped traffic, but you cut into a gap between cars and edge in as the traffic begins to move again, that is an “invasive” but also 100% safe move.

          It sounds like you’ve never driven before.

          • AAA@feddit.org
            31·
            9 hours ago

            Use “safe lane change” then, maybe? Instead of making up scenarios afterwards, where invasive equals safe.

            But I feel you have a problem admitting mistakes in general, not just when it comes to traffic.

            If you think I don’t drive, I think you shouldn’t drive.

            • hirihit640@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              11·
              9 hours ago

              The word “invasive” doesn’t even matter here. That was a word you introduced and I was just using it too. But if you want, we can use OP’s terminology. OP said cut in line, you responded saying not to do that, and I’m saying that it’s fine and can be totally safe.

              • AAA@feddit.org
                2·
                8 hours ago

                Please read the comment chain again if you think I used the term first, lol. u/sunsofold used it, you used it, and only then I entered the discussion.