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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.

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[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It's not the horn itself but how it's used.

Long blast = angry Two quick bips = not angry One bip = I'm just letting you know I'm here

Two long blasts - The El Dude Brothers

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everybody has to get out of their cars and dance!

[–] fixmycode@feddit.cl 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know if it's my car or me, but I've always find very difficult to modulate my horn, like if I try to have it do bips, they don't come out, I need to really punch it which means they won't be quickly one after the other. I need more horn practice.

There are some horns that are just impossible to modulate the length of. Dodge for sure has this problem as the direct to horn wiring is gone. They now run the horn through the body control module. The physical tap of the horn is now lost essentially as it instructs the horn to sound off for its predetermined amount of time. No polite nips of horn sound to wake a driver at a light, but a full on FU to get going!

There are more tech devices to buy that help with this stupidity that tech has created. Progress?

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Big Beats are the best, get high all the time

[–] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like it when the long blast is 5 seconds plus, I can't not find that funny

Have you ever visited any mainland European country??

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Usage is also country specific. Different countries use different horn communication