440: Road Rage - Revision history

Lettherebedarklight: /* Trivia */ add Category:Comics with a Spanish translation

2025-12-15T08:59:19Z

‎Trivia: add Category:Comics with a Spanish translation

Tromag at 17:43, 7 November 2024

2024-11-07T17:43:00Z

172.70.142.84 at 01:51, 15 June 2024

2024-06-15T01:51:24Z

172.70.210.5: clarified that Cueball is the tailgater

2024-06-08T02:30:55Z

clarified that Cueball is the tailgater

Gertuviti: /* Explanation */ Add missing plural

2024-05-04T20:30:02Z

‎Explanation: Add missing plural

Gertuviti: /* Explanation */ Elaborated on the legality of Black Hat's actions and what legal consequences he and Cueball might face.

2024-05-04T20:26:26Z

‎Explanation: Elaborated on the legality of Black Hat's actions and what legal consequences he and Cueball might face.

Tromag at 15:31, 18 September 2023

2023-09-18T15:31:12Z

DownGoer: More explicit references to "road rage," various readability changes

2023-08-30T02:50:26Z

More explicit references to "road rage," various readability changes

172.69.42.89: /* Explanation */

2022-06-27T21:36:49Z

‎Explanation

Theusaf: Reverted edits by Donald Trump (talk) to last revision by CRLF

2022-05-26T19:57:14Z

Reverted edits by Donald Trump (talk) to last revision by CRLF

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 ==Explanation==
-{{w|Road rage}} refers to aggressive behavior exhibited by (usually angry) motorists towards other people on or near the road. It can take the form of excessive honking, uncharacteristically aggressive driving, and using obscene gestures or language, among other behaviors.
+{{w|Road rage}} refers to aggressive behavior exhibited by (usually angry) motorists towards other people on or near the road. It can take the form of excessive honking, uncharacteristically aggressive driving, and using obscene gestures or language, sometimes escalating into physical violence.
 In this comic, [[Black Hat]] is driving a car, and [[Danish]] is with him in the passenger's seat. Black Hat gets annoyed because the car behind him (driven by [[Cueball]]) is "{{w|tailgating}}" (following too close behind Black Hat's car).
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 Danish decides to fight back, but rather than engaging in typical instances of road rage, she turns on her laptop and finds that the car behind them also has a laptop running. Since the cars are so close, the other laptop is well within WiFi range, so she manages to establish a WiFi connection with the laptop in the other car. Then, Danish finds a security hole (in the comic, a "remote exploit"). She uses it to break into the laptop and install a speech synthesizer. This means that the laptop in the car behind just starts saying words at Danish's will.
-The driver of the other car is puzzled when he starts hearing a voice. He is completely clueless about where the voice comes from. Also, because he is driving alone, he is probably frightened (or nervous at least) to find that someone is speaking inside his car. The "shot in the dark" is the gamble that this statement is meaningful to the tailgater. In order for it to psychologically impact the driver, he would have to have either been involved in someone's death, or have known someone who died in a way that he blames himself for (or could be convinced to blame himself for), and that person would need to be female for the "she" pronoun to work.  There are a large number of different ways this phrase could be meaningful to a person, ranging from actual murder to being involved in an accident to simply losing a loved one in a way he feels he could have prevented. Danish obviously keeps the accusation vague to maximize the odds of it impacting the tailgater, but the odds are still relatively low that it would be meaningful. Despite the poor chances, this appears to land, as the tailgater is evidently impacted by the disembodied voice blaming him for this unspecified person's death.
+The driver of the other car is puzzled when he starts hearing a voice. Since he's alone in the car (and likely wouldn't consider that his laptop might speak to him), he experiences a voice with no identifiable source addressing him out of nowhere, which is highly disconcerting. Danish then escalates this further with a "shot in the psychological dark", meaning that she causes his laptop to voice an accusation, on the chance that it might have a psychological impact on the tailgater. In order for her plan to work, he would have to have either been involved in someone's death, or have known someone who died in a way that he blames himself for (or could be convinced to blame himself for), and that person would need to be female for the "she" pronoun to work. There are a large number of different ways this phrase could be meaningful to a person, ranging from actual murder to being involved in an accident to simply losing a loved one in a way he feels he could have prevented. Danish obviously keeps the accusation vague to maximize the odds of it having an impact, but she's still taking a chance. Despite the poor chances, the words appears to land, as the tailgater is evidently impacted by the disembodied voice blaming him for this unspecified person's death.
-In the title text, Danish continues her revenge, asking Black Hat to slam on the brakes. So-called "{{w|Brake check|brake checking}}" is a common (though highly unsafe) method of road rage against tailgaters. At minimum, it forces them to abruptly decelerate and hopefully frightens them, but the danger is that they don't have room to stop in time and cause a collision. The joke is that, having already achieved a complicated and psychologically painful form of revenge, Danish wants to follow it up with a much more conventional form at the worst possible time. Since it is commonly believed that the blame for such types of accidents will always be given to the driver of the car behind, and since we know Black Hat is a sadistic bastard, Black Hat would no doubt enjoy adding both the blame and the traffic accident on top of what Danish has already accomplished. This may seem ironic, as Black Hat and Danish would be risking having their own car struck, but they would no doubt rather make an example than avoid the accident.
+In the title text, Danish continues her revenge, asking Black Hat to slam on the brakes. So-called "{{w|Brake check|brake checking}}" is a common (and highly unsafe) form of road rage against tailgaters. At minimum, it forces them to abruptly decelerate and hopefully frightens them, but the danger is that they don't have room to stop in time and cause a collision. The joke is that, having already achieved a complicated and psychologically painful form of revenge, Danish wants to follow it up with a much more conventional form at the worst possible time. Since it is commonly believed that the blame for such types of accidents will always be given to the driver of the car behind, and since we know Black Hat is a sadistic bastard, Black Hat would no doubt enjoy adding both the blame and the traffic accident on top of what Danish has already accomplished. This may seem ironic, as Black Hat and Danish would be risking having their own car struck, but they would no doubt rather make an example than avoid the accident.
-In truth however, while many jurisdictions do have a presumption that the rear driver is at fault in the event of a rear-end collision, that is only an initial presumption that can be rebutted by the facts of the case. Deliberately slamming your brakes for no good reason except to cause a traffic accident is illegal in virtually every jurisdiction, and that would be more than sufficient to defeat the presumption.
+In truth however, while many jurisdictions do have a presumption that the rear driver is at fault in the event of a rear-end collision, that is only an initial presumption that can be rebutted by the facts of the case. Deliberately slamming your brakes for no good reason except to cause a traffic accident is illegal in virtually every jurisdiction, and that would be more than sufficient to defeat the presumption. In addition to being potentially liable for any damages, Danish and Black Hat could potentially be injured (possibly seriously) in such a collision. Being willing to risk their own safety in order to screw with someone they don't like is very on-brand for them.
 ==Transcript==

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 {{w|Road rage}} refers to aggressive behavior exhibited by (usually angry) motorists towards other people on or near the road. It can take the form of excessive honking, uncharacteristically aggressive driving, and using obscene gestures or language, among other behaviors.
-In this comic, [[Black Hat]] is driving a car, and [[Danish]] is with him in the passenger's seat. Black Hat gets annoyed because the car behind him (driven by [[Cueball]] is "{{w|tailgating}}" (following too close behind Black Hat's car).
+In this comic, [[Black Hat]] is driving a car, and [[Danish]] is with him in the passenger's seat. Black Hat gets annoyed because the car behind him (driven by [[Cueball]]) is "{{w|tailgating}}" (following too close behind Black Hat's car).
 Danish decides to fight back, but rather than engaging in typical instances of road rage, she turns on her laptop and finds that the car behind them also has a laptop running. Since the cars are so close, the other laptop is well within WiFi range, so she manages to establish a WiFi connection with the laptop in the other car. Then, Danish finds a security hole (in the comic, a "remote exploit"). She uses it to break into the laptop and install a speech synthesizer. This means that the laptop in the car behind just starts saying words at Danish's will.

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 {{w|Road rage}} refers to aggressive behavior exhibited by (usually angry) motorists towards other people on or near the road. It can take the form of excessive honking, uncharacteristically aggressive driving, and using obscene gestures or language, among other behaviors.
-In this comic, [[Black Hat]] is driving a car, and [[Danish]] is with him in the passenger's seat. Black Hat gets annoyed because the car behind him is "{{w|tailgating}}" (following too close behind Black Hat's car).
+In this comic, [[Black Hat]] is driving a car, and [[Danish]] is with him in the passenger's seat. Black Hat gets annoyed because the car behind him (driven by [[Cueball]] is "{{w|tailgating}}" (following too close behind Black Hat's car).
 Danish decides to fight back, but rather than engaging in typical instances of road rage, she turns on her laptop and finds that the car behind them also has a laptop running. Since the cars are so close, the other laptop is well within WiFi range, so she manages to establish a WiFi connection with the laptop in the other car. Then, Danish finds a security hole (in the comic, a "remote exploit"). She uses it to break into the laptop and install a speech synthesizer. This means that the laptop in the car behind just starts saying words at Danish's will.

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 The driver of the other car is puzzled when he starts hearing a voice. He is completely clueless about where the voice comes from. Also, because he is driving alone, he is probably frightened (or nervous at least) to find that someone is speaking inside his car. The "shot in the dark" is the gamble that this statement is meaningful to the tailgater. In order for it to psychologically impact the driver, he would have to have either been involved in someone's death, or have known someone who died in a way that he blames himself for (or could be convinced to blame himself for), and that person would need to be female for the "she" pronoun to work.  There are a large number of different ways this phrase could be meaningful to a person, ranging from actual murder to being involved in an accident to simply losing a loved one in a way he feels he could have prevented. Danish obviously keeps the accusation vague to maximize the odds of it impacting the tailgater, but the odds are still relatively low that it would be meaningful. Despite the poor chances, this appears to land, as the tailgater is evidently impacted by the disembodied voice blaming him for this unspecified person's death.
-In the title text, Danish continues her revenge, asking Black Hat to slam on the brakes. So-called "{{w|Brake check|brake checking}}" is a common (though highly unsafe) method of road rage against tailgaters. At minimum, it forces them to abruptly decelerate and hopefully frightens them, but the danger is that they don't have room to stop in time and cause a collision. The joke is that, having already achieved a complicated and psychologically painful form of revenge, Danish wants to follow it up with a much more conventional form at the worst possible time. Since it is commonly believed that the blame for such types of accident will always be given to the driver of the car behind, and since we know Black Hat is a sadistic bastard, Black Hat would no doubt enjoy adding both the blame and the traffic accident on top of what Danish has already accomplished. This may seem ironic, as Black Hat and Danish would be risking having their own car struck, but they would no doubt rather make an example than avoid the accident.
+In the title text, Danish continues her revenge, asking Black Hat to slam on the brakes. So-called "{{w|Brake check|brake checking}}" is a common (though highly unsafe) method of road rage against tailgaters. At minimum, it forces them to abruptly decelerate and hopefully frightens them, but the danger is that they don't have room to stop in time and cause a collision. The joke is that, having already achieved a complicated and psychologically painful form of revenge, Danish wants to follow it up with a much more conventional form at the worst possible time. Since it is commonly believed that the blame for such types of accidents will always be given to the driver of the car behind, and since we know Black Hat is a sadistic bastard, Black Hat would no doubt enjoy adding both the blame and the traffic accident on top of what Danish has already accomplished. This may seem ironic, as Black Hat and Danish would be risking having their own car struck, but they would no doubt rather make an example than avoid the accident.
 In truth however, while many jurisdictions do have a presumption that the rear driver is at fault in the event of a rear-end collision, that is only an initial presumption that can be rebutted by the facts of the case. Deliberately slamming your brakes for no good reason except to cause a traffic accident is illegal in virtually every jurisdiction, and that would be more than sufficient to defeat the presumption.

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 The driver of the other car is puzzled when he starts hearing a voice. He's completely clueless about where the voice comes from. Also, he's driving alone, so he's probably frightened (or nervous at least) to find that someone is speaking inside his car. The fact that the voice says "she'd be alive if it weren't for you" surely won't help him relax. The "shot in the dark" is the gamble that this statement is especially meaningful and poignant to the driver. As the driver is prone to tailgating, it seems likely that he could have caused a car accident—possibly a fatal one—in the past.
-In the title text, Danish is continuing her revenge, asking Black Hat to slam on the brakes. Hitting the brakes is a common (though highly unsafe) way to get revenge on tailgaters. At minimum, it forces them to abruptly decelerate and hopefully frighten them, but the danger is that they don't have room to stop in time and cause a collision. The joke is that, having already achieved a complicated and psychologically painful form of revenge, Danish wants to follow it up with a much more conventional form, at the worst possible time. Since the blame for such types of accident is always given to the driver of the car behind, and since we know Black Hat is a sadistic bastard, Black Hat will no doubt enjoy adding both the blame and the traffic accident on top of what Danish has already accomplished. This may seem ironic, as Black Hat and Danish would be risking having their own car struck, but they would no doubt rather make an example than avoid the accident.
+In the title text, Danish is continuing her revenge, asking Black Hat to {{w|brake check|slam on the brakes}}. Hitting the brakes is a common (though highly unsafe) way to get revenge on tailgaters. At minimum, it forces them to abruptly decelerate and hopefully frighten them, but the danger is that they don't have room to stop in time and cause a collision. The joke is that, having already achieved a complicated and psychologically painful form of revenge, Danish wants to follow it up with a much more conventional form, at the worst possible time. Since the blame for such types of accident is always given to the driver of the car behind, and since we know Black Hat is a sadistic bastard, Black Hat will no doubt enjoy adding both the blame and the traffic accident on top of what Danish has already accomplished. This may seem ironic, as Black Hat and Danish would be risking having their own car struck, but they would no doubt rather make an example than avoid the accident.
 ==Transcript==