• @FireTower
    link
    5411 months ago

    Hazard lights to let everyone else know you’ve decided to become a roadway hazard.

  • @MrJameGumb
    link
    3911 months ago

    Ah yes, the Door Dash/Uber “it’s cool if I just block an entire lane of traffic, right?” button!

    • @someguy3
      link
      310 months ago

      Isn’t that called double parking? Did that ever actually happen?

      • @MrJameGumb
        link
        210 months ago

        Double parking would be if someone parked illegally in such a way that it would block someone else in their parking spot. What I’m talking about is when someone like an Uber driver literally turns on their hazard lights and just stops in the middle of traffic to wait for whomever they’re picking up, and yes I have seen that happen a number of times lol

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      210 months ago

      To be fair, if I was paid minimum wage with a penalty if I don’t work fast enough, I don’t realy have any other choice but be an asshole. Espeially since my mental retardation would prevent me from thinking of any other solutions.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    2611 months ago

    Personally I feel like people that park in the bike lane should forfeit the protection of law. If I have to swerve into deadly traffic so you can get your coffee a little faster, I should be able to take your car’s mirror with me.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      -910 months ago

      I think that people that bike on the sidewalk should forfeit the protection of law. If I have to dodge you pulling 20 on a route that pedestrians were meant to walk just because you can’t be bothered to follow the traffic laws, I should be allowed to stick an umbrella in your wheel spokes.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        710 months ago

        I ride (slowly) on the sidewalk sometimes because I’ll probably die if I ride with traffic. I’m sorry. It’s annoying. I walk the bike when it gets crowded. But I super don’t want to ride on a lot of these streets.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          -110 months ago

          You don’t sound like the type of person to try to ride a bike down the 3 foot wide sidewalk on a bridge, or to pull 40-50 mph through a crosswalk without stopping.

          • @uis
            link
            7
            edit-2
            10 months ago

            3 foot wide sidewalk

            0.9 real freedom units wide sidewalk? Am I the only one who sees problem here?

            EDIT: my skill issue. You see it too.

      • @uis
        link
        0
        edit-2
        10 months ago

        EDIT: my skill issue

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          310 months ago

          The person you’re replying to is complaining about bikes from the perspective of a pedestrian, not a motorist.

          • @uis
            link
            310 months ago

            Oops. Skill issue. Ok then.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    1610 months ago

    I went a solid 8 years having my kids convinced it was an emergency button that you would press only in an emergency if you had to have the stoplight turn green. Every once in a while I would “break the law” when I knew the light was about to change and push it just before. Their mom wound up spilling the beans :-( I’m pretty sure I could’ve kept it up till the oldest one started to drive. Lol

  • @Euphorazine
    link
    1411 months ago

    Ah, the “I am aware I’m doing something wrong, but I’m doing it anyways” button.

    • Possibly linux
      link
      fedilink
      English
      411 months ago

      Some people get intimidated by a tiny bit of weather. I’ve seen people with there hazards on when its icy out.

      • Apathy Tree
        link
        fedilink
        English
        1010 months ago

        Around here people use them a lot when they start hitting traffic backups and slowing down, as well as when they hit a slippery patch, to alert other drivers to upcoming conditions.

        It’s not due to being intimidated, it’s a courtesy.

        • @taiyang
          link
          510 months ago

          Y’all forgot heavy fog. It was a life saver when fog made it hard to see five feet in front of me. We all slowed down to a crawl and conga lined our way out, hazards a blazin’.

  • @TrickDacy
    link
    1110 months ago

    I think people think of it like the star in super Mario Bros. Push that button, you start flashing, and no one can touch you!

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      410 months ago

      I learned in Japan that it is a thank you button. Like if someone let’s you into a lane, you flash twice to say thank you and turn it off.

      I’ve noticed truck drivers do the same here in the US, so I’ve started doing this as well as a regular driver.

  • @taiyang
    link
    1010 months ago

    A real problem on the West side of LA, I’ve had three people doing it at once, once, blocking both ways on a residential street. One was admittedly an Amazon delivery truck but the other two were just assholes.

    Not as dangerous as the black Range Rover I nearly hit who had no lights and was simply parked dead in the streets. It wasn’t out of order either, that asshole an hour later got back to his car just in time to avoid a tow.

  • Destide
    link
    fedilink
    English
    411 months ago

    Only avalible in Audi,BMW and Land Rovers

    • Skelectus
      link
      fedilink
      311 months ago

      It seems pretty damn available to all food delivery drivers

  • balderdash
    link
    fedilink
    311 months ago

    omfg don’t get me started on double parking on crowded streets

  • THCDenton
    link
    110 months ago

    Go ahead. Try that at LAX

    • @jenny_ball
      link
      210 months ago

      lax barely gives you enough time to get your ass out of the moving car lolll.

    • @uis
      link
      110 months ago

      Airport?