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Internalize the externality. Tie horn honking to a credit card in the car. $1 per second honked. A quick road runner meep-meep cost 20¢. Holding down your horn
by lxmorj 9y ago
Internalize the externality.
Tie horn honking to a credit card in the car. $1 per second honked. A quick road runner meep-meep cost 20¢. Holding down your horn like a dipshit for 30sec is a bit expensive.
Use those dollars to bolster city taxes.
- TomMarius 9y agoYeah and what about those cases when you're honking to prevent a crash?
- Faaak 9y agoActually the concept is interesting. You could even make like: 30seconds free per day, or something like that. I've found that the majority of honks are not for urgent situations
- dazc 9y agoThere are people who would then intentionally honk for 30 seconds a day so they could feel they'd had their entitlement. I fear it would make things worse?
- __s 9y agoDo you have to honk to prevent a crash so often that the 2$ would add up to anything? It's negligible compared to the cost of the car. You're still incentivized to honk as the cost of a crash is much higher than the cost of honking
- TomMarius 9y agoNot me but remember that there are people who don't have as much money as we in IT do. Another issue is that this is something you need to do in a fraction of a second or it might be too late - if the first thing you do isn't smashing the steering wheel but hesitation in the form of thinking about money, it's probably going to be too late. I have to honk to prevent a crash about 2 times a week - and I go to and from work (30 km combined) and nothing much else. What about professional drivers?