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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      18 hours ago

      A horn thats intended to mean sorry would be misused or misinterpreted on purpose.

      Drive better so you dont need to apologize

      Please point to the inconsistency

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          2 hours ago

          “This situation is a lot like this other situation, and it did not work out there, and people tend to have similar emotions in these two scenarios”

          Road rage is no more logical than league rage, which is why i compared the two. An illogical person hearing/maliciously using a tool intended for genuine apology will very quickly be rewritten as the “youre a coward” horn or “you should be telling me sorry” horn or something dumb