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v0.10.0 — The Rejoin Advisor

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@thomasfowler thomasfowler released this 10 Aug 14:20

You've binned it. You're in the gravel, and the only question that matters is: can I go, or is half the field about to arrive?

OhShit now answers it. The same detection it points at everyone else, pointed back at you — when you're the incident, the overlay flips into the Rejoin Advisor: WAIT / SOON / GO, a countdown to the next car, and the gap worth waiting for ("8s gap after 2").

  • Knows the difference between stopped dead and still rolling — the thresholds move with your momentum, because a rolling car pulls away from traffic and a parked one doesn't
  • Understands trains: how many cars to let by, and how big the gap behind them is
  • The go bar fills as the road opens — full exactly when GO appears
  • Its own audio language: low blips while it's not safe, a rising "clear" when it is
  • Four looks — Strip, Mirror, Frame, Tower — chosen separately from your incident style, so the two overlays never look alike at a glance
  • Works under caution, pace car included

It's experimental, and OFF by default. Turn it on in the OhShit settings page → REJOIN ADVISOR. It advises, you decide: green means "no traffic reaches you inside your crossing window", not a promise.

It's been tuned against deliberately-crashed test sessions, but it's young. When it calls one wrong, tell us — every report makes it better:

Also in this release

  • Preview buttons for every rejoin state (including a full cycle with the tones) — position and style the overlay without crashing once
  • Feedback & support links right on the settings page
  • For the tinkerers: the whole rejoin model is tunable under ADVANCED, and the offline replay tool now traces rejoin decisions alongside incident warnings