Why Can't We Communicate With the Drivers Around Us, Yet?

So you want everyone talking on a cell phone to protect against the occasional drunk driver?

1. call the police

2. communicate with what, phones?

3. just move into the right lane for a few seconds

Also horns.

Full Upright Position wrote:

I was driving near a suspected drunk driver this morning and aside from sharing a frightened look with the car next to me I couldn't communicate with anyone around to warn them.

There should be a Yik-Yak type of communication system that allows people driving near one another to communicate.

And since i live in Oregon I'd like a system where I can tell slow drivers to get out of the passing lane. It's the #1 crime in the state.

You can communicate with nearby drivers on the Waze app. Anyone that is using it nearby can get your message. You can also report the popo looking for speeders too.

I don't drive without it.

Just the facts please wrote:

Full Upright Position wrote:

I was driving near a suspected drunk driver this morning and aside from sharing a frightened look with the car next to me I couldn't communicate with anyone around to warn them.

There should be a Yik-Yak type of communication system that allows people driving near one another to communicate.

And since i live in Oregon I'd like a system where I can tell slow drivers to get out of the passing lane. It's the #1 crime in the state.

You can communicate with nearby drivers on the Waze app. Anyone that is using it nearby can get your message. You can also report the popo looking for speeders too.

I don't drive without it.

Yeah except no one else on the road uses it so it's worthless.

I don't know what the technology would be but it seems doable. When I find myself in traffic it's usually with a community of people I have something in common with - going to work, traveling to the big game, heading out for a holiday weekend.

I use Twitter, LinkedIn and FACEBOOK for different communities in my life, I could see an application for communicating in the super-localized world of the public right of way. We are all driving along listening to the same radio stations, why not communicate instead?

Full Upright Position wrote:

And since i live in Oregon I'd like a system where I can tell slow drivers to get out of the passing lane. It's the #1 crime in the state.

Amen to that. One of the most frustrating drives in my life was in that state.

Full Upright Position wrote:

And since i live in Oregon I'd like a system where I can tell slow drivers to get out of the passing lane. It's the #1 crime in the state.

Why does your state have the slowest maximum speed limit in the entire American West? I-5 through rural parts of the Willamette Valley is posted at 65, yet most Oregonians ignore it, leaving everyone vulnerable to the whim of cops with a quota to fill. Why don't your legislators get real?

Thank god other drivers can't communicate with you. They'd do nothing but tell you about their ironman.

All you need is one finger

I want a voice bace texting system that connects to a scrolling marquee displayed on the outside of my car.

Bring Back the 880 wrote:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_band_radio

Breaker Breaker, big daddy!

Because no one gives a shit what you have to say.

#1 crime.... Cry more you pansy.....

Or you can just put speakers on your car and you can talk to other drivers and pedestrians alike.

Also, my friend mentioned a few years back that there should be a "fcuk you" horn and a "thank you" horn to make honking a horn less amphibious.

Speaker of Hard Truths wrote:

Yeah except no one else on the road uses it so it's worthless.

You must live in a rural area. It's heavily used in my area.

thejeff wrote:

I want a voice bace texting system that connects to a scrolling marquee displayed on the outside of my car.

I've always wanted one of those, too. Marquee in the back window is what I was thinking.

thejeff wrote:

I want a voice bace texting system that connects to a scrolling marquee displayed on the outside of my car.

Dude i've thought of that too!! Why are we not funding this??

Oregon Is Slow wrote:

Full Upright Position wrote:

And since i live in Oregon I'd like a system where I can tell slow drivers to get out of the passing lane. It's the #1 crime in the state.

Why does your state have the slowest maximum speed limit in the entire American West? I-5 through rural parts of the Willamette Valley is posted at 65, yet most Oregonians ignore it, leaving everyone vulnerable to the whim of cops with a quota to fill. Why don't your legislators get real?

These are the same legislators that believe the average Oregonian is incapable of pumping gasoline.

What she should have said wrote:

Also, my friend mentioned a few years back that there should be a "fcuk you" horn and a "thank you" horn to make honking a horn less amphibious.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! You mean ambiguous right?