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Revision as of 05:04, 4 May 2022
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| Driving PSA |
 Title text: This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time. |
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A PSA is a Public Service Announcement. Some drivers, when given the right of way, will let others take it before them. This comic is saying that people who exhibit this behavior are actually Terminator-style assassins, sent to kill people by sending them into oncoming traffic and making it look like an accident.
The title text explains that Randall made this PSA because he has experienced this multiple times in the last month. Although, since he believes this behavior to be done by time-travel assassins, he has not accepted the right of way, and thus believes himself to have evaded death. He then says that he already knows this trick, the assassins should try harder. Such a claim that assassins are actively trying to murder him using "right of way" would be treated as a conspiracy theory by most people.
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- Driving PSA:
- Random drivers can’t grant you the right of way as a gift.
- [An H-road intersection with the main road going from top to bottom and the leading road coming from the left]
- [A car is parked to the right of the left road]
- Your car: You, waiting to turn left
- [A car is parked to the left side of the right main road, with another car, a truck hauling cargo, and a car lined up behind it]
- First car [in speech bubble]: You go ahead! I’m feeling generous.
- First car: Time traveler pretending to be polite
- [To the right of the line of cars is a black arrow pointing upwards, with text beneath it reading 45 MPH and a car behind the text]
- Clueless car: Car that they are waving you into the path of
- If someone waves you out, assume that they are an assassin sent from the future to kill you and make it look like an accident.
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Lots of people contribute to make this wiki a success. Many of the recent contributors, listed above, have just joined. You can do it too! Create your account here.
You can read a brief introduction about this wiki at explain xkcd. Feel free to sign up for an account and contribute to the wiki! We need explanations for comics, characters, themes and everything in between. If it is referenced in an xkcd web comic, it should be here.
- If you're new to wiki editing, see the explain xkcd:Editor FAQ for a specific guidance to this Wiki and the more general help on how to edit wiki pages. There's also a handy wikicode cheatsheet.
- Discussion about the wiki itself happens at the Community portal.
- You can browse the comics from List of all comics or by navigating the category tree at Category:Comics.
- There are incomplete explanations listed here. Feel free to help out by expanding them!
Rules
Don't be a jerk.
There are a lot of comics that don't have set-in-stone explanations; feel free to put multiple interpretations in the wiki page for each comic.
If you want to talk about a specific comic, use its discussion page.
Please only submit material directly related to (and helping everyone better understand) xkcd... and of course only submit material that can legally be posted (and freely edited). Off-topic or other inappropriate content is subject to removal or modification at admin discretion, and users who repeatedly post such content will be blocked.
If you need assistance from an admin, post a message to the Admin requests board.
