Greeting other drivers

[xhavefunx]

Imagine driving your car on the highway and getting scared the crap out of you by all the truckers who are horning at each other. Especially in Scandinavia, where ETS2 feels even more realistic you will find less other players greeting each other for the sake of realism, beside flashing your high beam of course which is totally fine by irl standards.

[Reaper]

Most of the time I'll simply "reply" to the greeting, in whichever way it was sent to me (lights or horn), the only times I'll ever "greet" someone so to speak is usually after spending long times on the road alone, at which point I am truly happy to see someone after miles of empty roads

 

Sometimes though when there're many players driving by honking at me, I respond to the first few but.. then I just can't be bothered for the rest, I know that's a bit... butthole'ish but, I only have so many Hello!'s in me to give D;

 

I don't have any real preferences over which or the other should be the standard form though, any is good for me.

[Syntog]

Oh so now when I drive I HAVE to honk or flash my lights when someone passes? No. I think it is stupid. 

[Gorkal1ty]

Do you know this is a game?

This is a simulator, and the horn gets the same way annoying as in real life if each truck you pass by horns to you.

 

I´m another of those who will usually flash my lights, except for incoming convoys, I dont wanna get mad with the flashing lights button lol.

[Amazing Red Panda]

Maybe i'm the one who high beamed you since i always do that and my high beam button is right click :3

[thecat94]

As it was my first day driving on multiplayer yesterday i flashed lights at mostly everybody i seen and to be fair i had a few replies and few  of no replies.good to be polite..

[Opulentus]

A bit of both here; sometimes I see their lights, but too late to use mine as they've just passed... I usually just give a quick "toot" in that case.

[eXcelon5]

I usually flash my beams, since 1.17 made them a lot more noticeable, unless I'm not in the mood for some reason. However if someone honks, I usually will honk back.

[zyprexia]

I only return a 'greeting' when I actually know that other person. 

Maybe you should invite the Queen of England to join the game, she's used to wave at everbody she sees..

[Cooper's Freightmaster]

Interesting responses. I have to say I'm now becoming more of a flash high beams kind of guy since Scandinavia.

[BigDave1985]

I do flash lights and beep the horn depending on how it was sent. Don't go mad with the horns tho.

[Fernbhoy]

I'll honk if it's not somewhere that risks them/myself losing control to try and honk back

 

Nothing worse than looking for my honk button while joining a motorway

[Njord]

I never honk to greet someone since the horn is to warn for danger for example a truck that's pulling out on to your path.

Flashing highbeams i just do to those i know because people tend to use them alot to greet strangers which makes flashing your highbeams purpose useless ( flashing to warn other people there is danger up ahead )

So when i flash to warn... they think i am greeting and flash back.. So that's why i never say " Hello " to strangers.

[Noxii]

So at work to greet someone here where I live and work we have 2 things that we tend to do.

 

1: We wave to eachother while passing each other.

2: During winter/autumn when it's dark during the nights and sometimes day we flash our left indicator once while passing each other.

 

I usually lay off the horn since in my eyes that's something you use to call for attention from other vehicles, for example when you want to warn somebody for oncoming danger or alert them of some unexpected move you're about to make.

[panther5]

I flash the lights. In Game and in RL.

BUT --- only peoples i know or i want to thank (if i was overtaken to let them in), so just like in real live.

 

Would be Horror to Horn -everyone- on the real Roads out there

[Munkeh]

I flash my light's every now and then too people too say hello just too be friendly. But then you get the silly person playing chicken on the other side of the road =(

[Amfortas]

I suppose the question to say hello by using your horn or light might depending on what part of the world you are from? A somewhat good example is when I lived in Germany in the late 70's. I gave the American well know hand signal meaning Ok. Unknown to me it meant something completely different and negative to the person I was signalling. I apologized and explained myself quickly. At least it ended with us laughing. My point is that we all must understand and respect differences in cultures. While not acknowledging others is certainly rude by most of the worlds standards, how we say "hello" can be different. In the US a simple honk is customary and flashing lights usually means that your lights are too bright or something else is wrong. In other countries that might not be the case.

This particular MP ability allows us to share the roads with people from around the world. The lack of means to communicate directly through the game itself means we adapt. It doesn't bother me to honk at every truck. I have that ability set to a very easy to access button. For those that don't honk or flash in return, it's their loss.

[Rhendak]

I always honk to by-passers. It might just have been my experience, but I feel that when driving in the new Scandinavia zones, people seem to be in "better spirits" and honk to each other more often. But I have noticed a significant decrease of greeting each other on the normal roads over the passed few months  

[SprinterFS]

I see all the cultural difference here.

In some parts of the world, drivers who use high beams to other people are considered rude and impatient.

In game I horn to everyone on road and respect all kinds of greeting except ramming.

[Tandre]

The differnce i see here is: Some people are taking this as a "simulator" and do not honk as it normally is used to warn.... 

Then we have people which drive well, but they use their horn to be friendly and nice! "Just saying hello"! I remember the first days of ETS2MP, everybody honked, EVERYBODY!  

I allways both honk and flash my lights! <3

[HeyI'mAmethyst]

In the UK in real life, the only gestures you get are middle fingers . Though this would be very useful in MP, you can't do it because a: SCS hasn't implemented it and b: its profanity so you'd get banned for doing it anyway

[ca402]

I flash and hoot like a 'mofo' to other drivers

[CM.Winchester]

I always use horns as lights can sometimes be hard to notice when concentrating on driving.

[BigDave1985]

Normally a mixture. I flash my lights first and if no reply I honk at them

[freddiebox]

I don't know about you guys, but everytime someone toot at me I jump off my chair in terror. Long and empty roads with calm music on the radio, and out of the blue someone step on their air horn. I know they have good intentions, bit it has become a bad habit for me so I just don't do it. Sometimes I wink my headlight if the oncoming does.