I got bought one of them counters for my birthday as a joke present back in JanuaryLovely drive today from Dumfries & Galloway up to Fort William. Lots of passing T6's, but OMG, wave ratio about 3 out of 10What's wrong with everyone? I'm so happy to be driving through such spectacular scenery, I feel like waving at every passing vehicle.
Since then, I'm on 84 waves and 49 ignores.
Mrs called me a sad c*nt the other day for keeping record, so I ripped it off the dash in rage and threw it in the back
Depends how you're waving i guess....I'm lucky if I get 25% of waves returned at the mo (miserable gits!)
And it's the t4 boys that wave not the t6 lot!
Lovely drive today from Dumfries & Galloway up to Fort William. Lots of passing T6's, but OMG, wave ratio about 3 out of 10
You've picked a busy week to be there with trialbikes in the area. Where are you staying?
Have you let her out of the back yet?!!I got bought one of them counters for my birthday as a joke present back in January
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Since then, I'm on 84 waves and 49 ignores.
Mrs called me a sad c*nt the other day for keeping record, so I ripped it off the dash in rage and threw it in the back
Surely you can share the waving with your passenger / copilot?
Speaking from personal experience they're far too adult to join in waving at passing vans and have already accused you of getting arsey because you accidentally waved to a Land Rover Discovery and it's not their fault their DRLs look like THQ led headlights or that you didn't see the speed camera van.
Perhaps what is needed is an intelligent system that records exactly who and what returns or initiates The Wave. Perhaps mmi can program in the system for us. Thing is, sloping windscreens and reflections might hide a wave, certainly the elevated finger a more subtle acknowledgment. The finger salute is only a gently rased finger from a hand that is still clasping the steering wheel. Sometimes one sees it and sometimes one does not! Of course the nod or wink is impossible to see unless living in a metropolis with traffic congestion. So perhaps the vehicles aught to be equipped with an auto recognition device that does all the waving for us including the backhanded two finger rebuke! Then we can just drive on without actually notice who is driving what being completely auto. Do T6.1 drivers want to be waving
T6 vehicles. Perhaps the auto recognition system can be fine tuned to be imperious and aloof to what might be considered riff raff.............
My personal built in wave system already filters out all Californias (presumably too aloof to wave at non-factory replicas).
I waved at a Beligian plated left hooker yesterday - no response from driver or passenger. Does the wave translate to the continent? Would be good to know before heading across the channel some time in the future and making a complete ar5e of myself. (Maybe you just have to WAVE LOUDER to be understood?)
I waved at a Beligian plated left hooker yesterday - no response from driver or passenger. Does the wave translate to the continent? Would be good to know before heading across the channel some time in the future and making a complete ar5e of myself. (Maybe you just have to WAVE LOUDER to be understood?)
I believe the quality of automated wave recognition and reply system is dependent on vehicle, T5, T6, T6.1 etc and level of luxury and to some degree a box ticking action when ordering a vehicle. Work is always under way amongst enthusiast modifiers developing suitable systems. I am sure some complex add on device might be under development but those competent with and have suitable plug-in fault diagnoses equipment might be able to tick relevant tick boxes. I do advise caution here however, one does not really want our vehicles to be thrusting the reverse middle finger salute to a Nar Nar Transporter for fear being encapsulated within it and literally being transported to the local nick for a sound er interrogation! Left and right hand drive recognition has been a problem on some vehicles.
That's very Schrödinger's Cat - how do know you've not seen a wave that you didn't see?
One knows the person responsible! The other thing is I may not see an acknowledgement of thanks for pulling over on the narrow roads here. My wife might say, "yes he did thank you, he did wave." I most probably pull over more than my fair share. I see the pull-in places instinctually, remember those that I have passed or knew them from past visits, I can often pull in where there is no pull in because my tyres facilitate off road excursion. I often do not mind reversing on difficult twisty narrow roads. I am not unique in this. Age experience belonging to a community. Partially also, I am a nice guy but also it is often far faster and easier to do it ones self, rather than wait while someone else who is practically sitting next too or just recently passed a widened or pull in area. They if stopped, which might be unusual, just sit right next to a widened area and look annoyed and pissed off but I will know perhaps there is no passing places behind me for over half a mile perhaps So perhaps an area of self interest less good intent. Holiday periods are the pits so far as giving way, visitors seem to be totally blind so far as passing places or etiquette is concerned and often even fail to acknowledge an act of good favour. A common thing for visitors is to keep advancing even where there is nowhere to pull into. My wife might correct my assumption to replace my scowl like demeanour. I may miss an entire wave or certainly a thanking lifting finger gesture windscreen reflections are mostly to blame. The finger gesture has gained popularity here over the whole arm hand thing, perhaps because thanking people for their kindness is so common place, yet it is tiresome also because of frequency.That's very Schrödinger's Cat - how do know you've not seen a wave that you didn't see?
