Road Courtesy

[The Dude]

So I'm driving through the country roads out by Mt. Rainier, WA this morning. The speed limit is ridiculously low and WA cops are pretty Nazi, so I've got my radar detector out. As I approach a bend in the road, my radar detector goes off, so I begin to slow down. Just as I begin to round the corner, a Jeep Grand Cherokee comes the other way and flashes me three times. Sure enough, just around the corner is a cop parked on the side of the road looking for speeders.

Now, I was quite amazed by this actually. You see, I heard one person back when I first got my license tell me that they like to flash people to warn them a cop is coming, and I've done it ever since. But this is the first time anybody's ever done it for me, and of the dozens of times I've brought this up with others, not a single one of them does it either. I wish I could remember who it was that originally told me, but I can't.

This event has done much to boost my hope that there are other observant, considerate drivers out there. (You know, the kind that will notice when a car behind them at a stoplight wants to take a free right but doesn't have room, so they pull forward a few feet to let them by.) Anybody else do this?

[Los Feliz Slim]

Yes, I do that. I've also moved into the left lane when approaching a stoplight when I can see the guy behind me is turning right.

I always thought the lights-blinking to warn about a cop was a Massachusetts thing, because I've never seen it anywhere else. When I lived in St. Louis I once had a car about a half mile ahead of me pull over because I was blinking my lights to warn oncoming cars.

Inconsiderate, stupid, obnoxious, oblivious drivers outnumber us about 1,000,000 to 1. If they drive you as crazy as they do me, I suggest you never visit Los Angeles.

[Larimani]

Warning other drivers is a crime & if you get caught doing it you goin' DOWN boy!

P.S.: There are speed regulations & cops for a reason... you pay taxes to pay the cops and then sabotage their work?

[The Dude]

Go away.

[Macdaddy Warsaw]

I've done it and seen others do the headlight flash in upstate NY too.

[Larimani]

You know it makes sense. Go back to your 4-monitors.

[RunDownHouse]

Yes, I do it (used to live in St. Louis, too). Its pretty rare I see someone reciprocate, though.

And a friend of mine has told me that he saw someone get pulled over for doing this, fwiw.

[razor]

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cops for a reason...

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and yet we still have left lane bandits and untold numbers of donk drivers.

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I do it whenever I can.

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And a friend of mine has told me that he saw someone get pulled over for doing this, fwiw.

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unlikely.