- jjjalljs ( @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ) 18•8 months ago
Personally I feel like people that park in the bike lane should forfeit the protection of law. If I have to swerve into deadly traffic so you can get your coffee a little faster, I should be able to take your car’s mirror with me.
- ColeSloth ( @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ) 11•8 months ago
I went a solid 8 years having my kids convinced it was an emergency button that you would press only in an emergency if you had to have the stoplight turn green. Every once in a while I would “break the law” when I knew the light was about to change and push it just before. Their mom wound up spilling the beans :-( I’m pretty sure I could’ve kept it up till the oldest one started to drive. Lol
- Underwaterbob ( @Underwaterbob@lemm.ee ) English11•8 months ago
Haha! In Korea, it’s the “I’m sorry!” button when you drive like an asshole.
Oh, I kind of like that.
- GONADS125 ( @GONADS125@feddit.de ) 5•8 months ago
I learned in Japan that it is a thank you button. Like if someone let’s you into a lane, you flash twice to say thank you and turn it off.
I’ve noticed truck drivers do the same here in the US, so I’ve started doing this as well as a regular driver.
- Fixbeat ( @Fixbeat@lemmy.ml ) 9•8 months ago
Also a “hey, it’s raining” button.
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English3•8 months ago
Some people get intimidated by a tiny bit of weather. I’ve seen people with there hazards on when its icy out.
- Apathy Tree ( @ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•8 months ago
Around here people use them a lot when they start hitting traffic backups and slowing down, as well as when they hit a slippery patch, to alert other drivers to upcoming conditions.
It’s not due to being intimidated, it’s a courtesy.
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English2•8 months ago
Its not a courtesy if everyone immediately does it
- cobra89 ( @cobra89@beehaw.org ) 6•8 months ago
It infuriates me that pretty much everyone uses this to pull over to the side of a street now. (Usually blocking the lane that they’re in instead of taking a nearby available space.) Even if you’re gonna be an asshole and block traffic at least use your blinker so we know wtf you’re doing. If you put on your blinker to the side you plan to stop on then we know you actually plan on pulling over instead of just going slow or stopping in the middle of the road or something. What’s more, and here’s the genius part, you can use the opposite blinker to signal that you’re pulling back out! As opposed to just pulling out with your hazards on with absolutely 0 warning. And yes, they did teach this in driver’s Ed, that I somehow remember half my life ago but nobody else can seem to… /Rant
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English1•8 months ago
Or maybe you could just go pull off into the parking lot…
- Destide ( @sirico@feddit.uk ) English5•8 months ago
Only avalible in Audi,BMW and Land Rovers
- ursakhiin ( @ursakhiin@beehaw.org ) 5•8 months ago
Tesla has it but the drivers just it and park behind people blocking their exit because they didn’t want to pay to activate the button.
- Skelectus ( @Skelectus@suppo.fi ) 2•8 months ago
It seems pretty damn available to all food delivery drivers