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Cars should have two horns. A polite one and one that is a fuck you horn
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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞 lemmy.world daychilde@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#52 · Quote Reply
Cethin wrote:
At this point, I think all cars should have an LED display for text. Flashing your lights can get people's attention, but it could mean anything. We should be able to set a message (maybe with a handful of defaults) to be displayed either on the front or rear of the vehicle. It can warn people that their light is out, or their trunk is open, or anything else. It'd clear up a lot of confusion.

I think Car Talk covered how while you'd think that would be a good idea....
It wouldn't be. Lol
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🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞 lemmy.world daychilde@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#53 · Quote Reply
Onomatopoeia wrote:
Yea, NorEasters have zero patience (this now extends down to northern VA)

My Hampton roads folks claim it's true here but I haven't seen it very much lol
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Captain Aggravated sh.itjust.works captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-20
#54 · (edited) Quote Reply
Smeagol666 wrote:
I wish I had a train horn yesterday. Some asshat in a black Sequoia cut me off from the shoulder. If I were 10 years younger I would have followed this jerk and explained to them the error of their ways. I wish I had an rpg launcher, or at least a paintball gun, mounted on my car.

I wanted to put the air horn from a semi-truck on my motorcycle. The little ^meep^ ^meep^ button Kawasaki installed wasn't capable of striking sufficient terror into the iPhone user behind the wheel of your average crossover.
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Obi sopuli.xyz Obi@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-01
#55 · (edited) Quote Reply
Cethin wrote:
At this point, I think all cars should have an LED display for text. Flashing your lights can get people's attention, but it could mean anything. We should be able to set a message (maybe with a handful of defaults) to be displayed either on the front or rear of the vehicle. It can warn people that their light is out, or their trunk is open, or anything else. It'd clear up a lot of confusion.

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wrinkledoo sh.itjust.works wrinkledoo@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-03-28
#56 · Quote Reply

Then everyone would just use the "fuck you" horn.
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anomnom sh.itjust.works anomnom@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-11-09
#57 · Quote Reply

Rolls Royce had city and country horns. Not sure if any still do but I think the Mercedes S class maybe did too at some point in the heyday of Top Gear (early mid 2000s).
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Murse slrpnk.net Murse@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2026-03-07
#58 · Quote Reply

Polite horn:

 

Fuck you horn:
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agent_nycto lemmy.world agent_nycto@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-06-10
#59 · Quote Reply

MBMBAM Great Job Horn
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Drusas fedia.io Drusas@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-08-16
#60 · Quote Reply
JasonDJ wrote:
Does California have icy bridges?

Sure it does. It's a big state and plenty parts of it freeze.
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