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CB Radio was big in the 70's.

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.

Many people would use such a method to troll and be disruptive, possibly causing collisions

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 *

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.

Because

1. Road rage is bad enough, and-
2. Americans still exist, which is why
3. We can’t have nice things.

fictional spaceships have advanced sensors,manuverability, and subspace communication. cars dont have that capability.

That sounds awful. But it does exist, its called a cb radio

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

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.

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.

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.

Yeah, let's add proximity chat to traffic. It'll be great!

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.

Bruh that's just multiplayer game voice chat IRL. Imagine chaos and trolling.

CB radio? That shit is for truckers and nerds but it was solid.

It's not a bad idea, but there are plenty of countries where it would be abused to xbox live chat levels.

Honking IS how you contact nearby vehicles.

Road rage.

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.

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.