[junoper]

> A reminder that pretty much no lorry driver in india knows English.

It would be rare to find a lorry driver who can converse in English but most of them would know the words "Horn, OK, Please". Thye aren't obscure words and phone/smartphone is widespread in India with mostly latin script interface. So, while I agree that it has become kind of a protocol/decoration, drivers while knowing the meaning, wouldn't care much about it given that it doesn't hurt to write that and can potentially help.

> Of course you expect every passerby to steal your car and you act accordingly.

That would be an exaggeration. There hasn't been any vehicle theft in my wider social circle ever. I read news about capture vehice thieves and I wouldn't be careless about the vehicle but I wouldn't expect everyone around me as potential thief. May be things are different in TN.

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I think the car stealing example was referring to the in-game behavior in GTA online. You expect car theft in GTA the same way you expect unsafe overtaking when driving in India.

[ramraj07]

My grandfather used to work in a goods shed so I knew my fair share of lorry drivers in the 90s. Horn ok please predates that era even. They knew not an sorts of English back then.