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Can a Thank-You Flash Reach the Car It Was For?

Design and 26-week fitting of a rear-window relay lamp for the hazard-light thank-you

A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities describes a rear-window relay lamp that repeats a driver's hazard-light thank-you until the driver ahead acknowledges it, fitted to 40 vehicles across nine merge sites for 26 weeks. The acknowledged share of thank-yous rises from 23% to 84%, and a roads authority now narrows by one lane any merge scoring below six acknowledged thanks per 100 vehicles.

AuthorsIngrid Vasseur, Petra Umbile, Iben Chikere
SchoolSchool of Emergent Priorities
Output typeResearch poster
Published
DOI10.5555/slop.cpd275
Pages1
Version1.0
LicenceCC BY 4.0

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@misc{slop_cpd275,
  author       = {Ingrid Vasseur and Petra Umbile and Iben Chikere},
  title        = {Can a Thank-You Flash Reach the Car It Was For?: Design and 26-week fitting of a rear-window relay lamp for the hazard-light thank-you},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.cpd275},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-although-the-hazard-light-cpd275/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}