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.
I have never heard of this and would genuinely think the person was having an issue. Where I’m from people just put a hand up as a wave. You lower most of your fingers if they tried to cut you off.
I love how you phrased this.
The way people communicate in cars using hazard lights is country specific usually in my experience.
I’ve noticed some small number of people here (Australia) turning them on when they break hard but I think that might be something that model of car does automatically when you jump on the anchors.
It’s pretty common in Palestine, not sure about other Arab countries.
It’s common in the USA, especially amongst truckers, where you can’t see the hand wave.
If a trucker in Australia put on their hazards I’d be getting the fuck out of the way or given them some room because some shit was about to go down, you know, like a hazard.