Our friends at LAist point out an (shall we say …) interesting public campaign to make Los Angeles the city of “friendly drivers.” The campaign is pinned to one critical action drivers must take to reduce the nastiness of driving: waving to your fellow gridlocked commuters.
From LAist:
A happy little quick wave. A wave through the rear-view mirror. A half-cocked, crooked wave through a half-cracked window. There’s the frenetic wave people use to get into a turning lane before it’s too late. The half-wave half thumbs-up wave. The wave accompanied by ones’ pointer finger as if to say, “I love you!” The two handed, half-cocked, upside down thumbs-up wave. The wave transformed into two hands praying wave. The thank you so much for everything head-twisted turn around stop-sign wave.
In our own metropolitan area that is clogged traffic, should Beltway drivers start waving more to make commuting all the more friendly? We know about Virginians hating Marylanders because of bad driving habits. Does that mean that drivers in the commonwealth are automatically courteous drivers?
