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A touch screen interface in a car is a TERRIBLE idea. Yeah a passenger could do it but only if there is a passenger in the car in the first place.
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Maybe a manual dial to cycle through the available nearby vehicles then. The idea is just that there should be a way for it to be clear who you are contacting and where their vehicle is on the road relative to yours.
Many people would use such a method to troll and be disruptive, possibly causing collisions
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Yeah just like every online videogame with strangers. I would immediately mute it and never unmute.
It's called a CB radio. Enjoy.
CB radio still exists.
"sir they're hailing us!"
"Thanks wife, put them through."
"HEY FUCKER YOU DIDNT SIGNAL"
* my bad hand wave *
Because
- Road rage is bad enough, and-
- Americans still exist, which is why
- We can’t have nice things.
In the eighties when cell phones started being installed in cars, some people posted their phone numbers on their back or side window. That didn't last long.
fictional spaceships have advanced sensors,manuverability, and subspace communication. cars dont have that capability.
Also fictional spaceships tend to have a whole crew instead of 1-5 people.
That sounds awful. But it does exist, its called a cb radio
Yeah my friend has a cb radio and he says when traffic is bad people are just yelling at each other. Although that's anonymous, if the messages showed you were X person from C vehicle it would probably be a bit more civil
Yeah no people are trash on average, I don't want to get constantly pinged by trashy people while driving, I don't even like proximity chat in games, imagine having that in real life, there's a high chance of accidents happening due to distraction. Now if someone wants to add a little display on their car that can display some basic text messages, maybe that could be of some use
Hate to break it to you, but proximity chat is enabled in real life all the time.
People don't have the balls to come up to you in real life and say the stuff they say from a place of saftey and anonymity.
Just look at the stuff people say on Lemmy, to someone they will never even meet, ever.
Why do we even leave comments here. Just total strangers. And yet people care very much about what others say.
Just look at the stuff people say on Lemmy, to someone they will never even meet, ever.
That's ridiculous! I will find you and flay your children alive! :D
Have you seen the movie Serenity? When they're out in Reaver space, remember the radio chatter?
That's what it would sound like.
This is what CB Radios are, and many more people used to have them before cell phones.
People in mountainous areas where a cell phone is useless still do.
This is actually being worked on. Researchers are looking at adding a 4th light to stop lights. When enough “smart” cars get into the area they will talk to each other and the stop light to help control the flow of traffic. The 4th light is to tell you that is happening. When the cars leave the area, the turns off, and the light goes back to normal control mechanisms.
CB radio was briefly very popular in the US in the 1970s. But the fad quickly died out among passenger car drivers, and now with cell phones, few truck drivers use it anymore. It’s mainly used to harass people.
Similarly, for a short time Airdropping on iPhones was always-on. It was mainly used to harass people.
I keep a CB radio in my car, and have a few friends with them
It is actually really handy when you're road tripping together in different cars to be able to just grab the mic and say something to the other vehicle when you need to stop for a bathroom break or you're having an issue with your car or want to give them a heads-up about whatever.
If you're fairly close together a set of cheap FRS walkie-talkies from Walmart does the job just as well. Probably worth stepping up to CB if you expect to lose sight of the other vehicle though, range is usually a bit better.
It's especially handy if, like me, you go camping and such in rural areas with unreliable cell coverage.
You do occasionally also get helpful heads-ups from truckers if you're listening to channel 19 about road conditions, police activity, traffic, etc. but mostly it's just idiots babbling about conspiracy theories and immature bullshit.
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Lady honked at me the other day for not turning left at a light (she obviously didn’t see the motorcyclists) and began making rude gestures.
Well anyway it’s probably better that we can’t talk to each other.
I had a similar thing happen this week. Left turn lane waiting for pedestrian and their dog to cross the road. Person behind me was losing their minds at me. I pointed at the pedestrian and shrugged.
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Bruh that's just multiplayer game voice chat IRL. Imagine chaos and trolling.
And you get to hear their music peaking out whatever microphone is used for the car to car communication
It's not a bad idea, but there are plenty of countries where it would be abused to xbox live chat levels.
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CB radio? That shit is for truckers and nerds but it was solid.
Luckily, you're on Lemmy, and we're all nerds here
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Honking IS how you contact nearby vehicles.
Road rage.
Here in South Korea every car has the phone number of the owner displayed through the windshield so you can always call them when they parked false or so.
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I used to have a cat that loved to jump up under any truck that would be delivering something. We used to tell them not to leave until we had eyes on our cat. Even with that, he was such a varmint that I'd give them my business card, and tell them that if they got to their next delivery, and found him in their truck, to call me, and I'll come get him.
Luckily, our precautions worked, but he was a troublemaker.
You can contact other drivers. Just curl your fingers and thumb together and do the wanker gesture at them.
This might shock you but I dont want nearby people to be able to talk to me. Chicken or not.
I do a lot of water sports in the UK and we use VHF radios. Certain frequencies are used by marinas and the like, and nearby boats will be tuned into them. Then there is a frequency used for emergency calls - the coastguard listens on that and answers, and will move your call to another frequency for more details, leaving the mayday one open again.
We mainly use VHF for boat-to-boat comms, or boat-to-shore. The local range is decent - a few miles from our base, depending on atmospheric conditions, obstacles etc. I honestly have no idea if you could use VHF radios between cars though. It's not private for a start - everyone can hear you - and once someone is yammering on the marina frequency no-one else can transmit. So it's just brief messages with protocols.
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