"Car Talk" - Horn/Headlights to English

[MercenaryForHire]

Spawned from this thread

We all saw the infomercial there as to what can happen with poor horn technique. What's your linguistics?

Single tap - "Pardon me. 😛"
Getting attention at a stoplight, usually when the person in front of you is waiting for a certain shade of green light.

Two short taps - "Hey! 😀"
Can be a greeting or salute - usually accompanied by a wave or thumbs-up.

Headlight blink to signaling vehicle - "Go ahead."
Used when you're feeling oddly generous, and decide to let the poor bastard running out of merge lane come in front of you.

Long blast on horn - "Fvck you! :|"
For use on colourblind drivers who can't tell red from green.

Headlight blink to opposing car - "Turn your lights on/highbeams off."
When someone hasn't figured out how their car works yet.

Double-blink to opposing car - "Speed trap behind me."
All's far in love and highway war.

Headlight blink to car ahead - "I'm about to pass you."
For when Grandma makes a daring 15mph escape from the rest home in her Cadillac.

Full brights and leaning on the horn - "You're merging INTO my car."
Sometimes the only way to draw attention to a diminuitive import faced with the unhealthy proposition of passing a Lincoln Navigator.

If you've read this far, yes, this is a nef thread. 😀

- M4H

 

Double-blink in the left lane of the highway - "Move over, I'd like to pass you."

 

[Mill]

I flash my lights all the time to get people to move over so I can pass. WTF is so hard about not doing 60mph in the fast lane? :roll:

 

[TitanDiddly]

Woot?

 

Originally posted by: Mill
I flash my lights all the time to get people to move over so I can pass. WTF is so hard about not doing 60mph in the fast lane? :roll;

I usually have great results with the flash-to-pass technique, but a couple days ago I sat behind a lady for about 5 minutes, flashing and flashing. I ended up having to pass her among slow traffic on the right. She had plenty of room/time to move over.

:|

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Mill
I flash my lights all the time to get people to move over so I can pass. WTF is so hard about not doing 60mph in the fast lane? :roll:

Screw 60mph, don't do 70mph in the fast lane. The right lane's for saving gas, the left lane's for hauling ass.

- M4H

 

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Mill
I flash my lights all the time to get people to move over so I can pass. WTF is so hard about not doing 60mph in the fast lane? :roll:

Screw 60mph, don't do 70mph in the fast lane. The right lane's for saving gas, the left lane's for hauling ass.

- M4H

In Michigan (70 mph speed limit), the left lane is 80 mph or above. 🙂

 

[conjur]

Where are the double-tap brake lights for the tailgaters? 😛

 

Originally posted by: conjur
Where are the double-tap brake lights for the tailgaters? 😛

Double tape brakes - "I'm a huge asshole who won't move over for someone who clearly wants to pass."

😛

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: conjur
Where are the double-tap brake lights for the tailgaters? 😛

Double tape brakes - "I'm a huge asshole who won't move over for someone who clearly wants to pass."

😛

Sorry but in *my* book, tailgating relegates you to an undetermined length of time trapped behind me and the semi in the right lane!

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: conjur
Where are the double-tap brake lights for the tailgaters? 😛

Double tape brakes - "I'm a huge asshole who won't move over for someone who clearly wants to pass."

😛

Sorry but in *my* book, tailgating relegates you to an undetermined length of time trapped behind me and the semi in the right lane!

If you'd drive we wouldn't tailgate you. I always get over if someone tailgates me, and it doesn't bother me one bit.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: conjur
Where are the double-tap brake lights for the tailgaters? 😛

Double tape brakes - "I'm a huge asshole who won't move over for someone who clearly wants to pass."

😛

Sorry but in *my* book, tailgating relegates you to an undetermined length of time trapped behind me and the semi in the right lane!

I hate people who think I'm going to move over, when what I want to do is pass the person in front of me. And, he wants to pass the person in front of him... and there are 10 cars in the fast line, all stuck behind the idiot going 60. Yet, the moron at the rear of the line thinks everyone in front of him is going to let him pass so he can be the first one stuck behind the other moron at the front of the line.

 

Originally posted by: DrPizza
I hate people who think I'm going to move over, when what I want to do is pass the person in front of me. And, he wants to pass the person in front of him... and there are 10 cars in the fast line, all stuck behind the idiot going 60. Yet, the moron at the rear of the line thinks everyone in front of him is going to let him pass so he can be the first one stuck behind the other moron at the front of the line.

If people want to pass, then they should pass QUICKLY. It should take you about ten seconds. Downshift if you have to, get your engine screaming, and get past the person. Then, move back to the right lane, or, if there's no traffic, stay in the left lane.

 

[nellienelson1]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Mill
I flash my lights all the time to get people to move over so I can pass. WTF is so hard about not doing 60mph in the fast lane? :roll:

Screw 60mph, don't do 70mph in the fast lane. The right lane's for saving gas, the left lane's for hauling ass.

- M4H

you poor americans, fast lane is for 80 if you dont know the motorway or 90 if you know where the speed traps are

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: jumpr
Double-blink in the left lane of the highway - "Move over, I'd like to pass you."

 

[Lonyo]

In the UK highway code, blinking lights is to officially let people know you are there, but obviously everyone uses it to say go ahead.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: conjur
Where are the double-tap brake lights for the tailgaters? 😛

Double tape brakes - "I'm a huge asshole who won't move over for someone who clearly wants to pass."

😛

Sorry but in *my* book, tailgating relegates you to an undetermined length of time trapped behind me and the semi in the right lane!

I hate people who think I'm going to move over, when what I want to do is pass the person in front of me. And, he wants to pass the person in front of him... and there are 10 cars in the fast line, all stuck behind the idiot going 60. Yet, the moron at the rear of the line thinks everyone in front of him is going to let him pass so he can be the first one stuck behind the other moron at the front of the line.

Skilled drivers don't get stuck like that -- they gun the engine and shoot the gap or blink the fool until he gets over. I've no patience for morons on the interstate. I'd do 100mph all the time if I could.

 

Originally posted by: Mill
Skilled drivers don't get stuck like that -- they gun the engine and shoot the gap or blink the fool until he gets over. I've no patience for morons on the interstate. I'd do 100mph all the time if I could.

Agreed. There's a difference between following the motor vehicle code and driving skillfully. One takes practice. The other can easily be done by any Dick, Jane or Min-Sun Ling. 😀

 

[wbresson]

<--- flash and pass especially with the semi's

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Bumper lightly to rear of car:
"No, we did not just have an accident."

Bumper hard to rear of car:
"Sorry, I was too busy talking on my phone and yelling at my kids to notice that you weren't moving because of that red light."

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: nellienelson1
you poor americans, fast lane is for 80 if you dont know the motorway or 90 if you know where the speed traps are

On my local freeway you can identify the speed traps by the pavement. If it's paved, it's a trap.

I think they quadrupled the amount of highway patrolmen in the last six months. I used to rarely see them, now I rarely don't.

 

[bigalt]

i'll be damned if i'm changing lanes for anyone but an ambulance or a cop car or someone who looks like they might have a gun.

i'm wayyy too lazy-- i just like to cruise and listen to my tunes, and i'll do it in whichever lane I want to.

 

Originally posted by: bigalt
i'll be damned if i'm changing lanes for anyone but an ambulance or a cop car or someone who looks like they might have a gun.

i'm wayyy too lazy-- i just like to cruise and listen to my tunes, and i'll do it in whichever lane I want to.

Hope you like tailgaters.