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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[–] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

“sorry, I screwed up. Excuse me. I just need to slip in there.”

My problem with this is that the screw up is the slipping in. In other words, accidents happen and there's nothing wrong with apologizing for something you already did by accident -- but in this case, it's preemptively apologizing for doing something on purpose that you know is wrong, cutting someone off because you already were late/past where you need to go.

If you cut someone off because you didn't see them and you thought it was safe, that's a good reason to apologize. Mistakes happen and it's good to take accountability.

If you're seeing that it's not really safe and the other guy is going to have to slam his brakes because you're going to consciously on purpose cut him off, then yeah you're just being a shitty driver on purpose. Apologizing for something you knowingly did on purpose and will do again? That just makes you a liar on top of that.

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  • [–] 5 points 15 hours ago

    Was going to point out something similar. A good driver occasionally misses an exit. A bad driver never does.

    OP, if you're in the wrong lane and there are cars around you, you continue and find a way to get back on track in a thoughtout way. You don't just cut into a lane where people can't react to your action because they're supposed to pay attention to everything BUT you. It creates a dangerous situation, in your case probably not life threatening, but you could mess up someone's property to save 30 seconds.

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  • [–] 4 points 15 hours ago

    This was my exact thought.

    People who drive like they walk are either too stupid or ignorant to understand that there are over 3 LITERAL TONS of force being used to "just-squeeze-by, pardon-sorry."

    To quote questionably-ethically-dubious Louis CK, "BuT ThAt'S nOt My FaVoRiTe WaY!!!

    If you missed your turn, that sucks, now you spend an extra 2 - 4 minutes going the long way around.

    Be better,, drive better, pay more attention. If you got unlucky and the road or signage sucks, oh well.

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