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There's also a different solution that e.g. Russia employs: honking is completely prohibited except for avoiding a collision. Of course, people still honk occas
by aasasd 8y ago
There's also a different solution that e.g. Russia employs: honking is completely prohibited except for avoiding a collision. Of course, people still honk occasionally when annoyed, and, notably, to call someone outside the traffic; and the rule isn't enforced much—but its mere existence raises the threshold considerably. You have to really be in the way to earn a honk, twenty seconds is an unthinkably low cutoff here indicating anger problems on the honking driver's part.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoThat sounds terrible. If someone screws up on the road they should be told, loudly.
- chki 8y agoIf you honk: do you know how many people you are annoying with that? I would guess you can probably hear a honking car in a radius of at least 300 m outdoors and 100m indoors. So in any well populated area there are probably there are probably more than 500 people who hear a car honking. Do you really thing that's worth it, just to tell a single person they did something wrong?
- amanaplanacanal 8y agoI'm guessing that was intended to be a joke, but I'm not 100% sure.
- hammock 8y agoHonking is also illegal in NYC if I recall correctly.. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/opinion/the-350-honk.html https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/opinion/the-350-honk.html
- aasasd 8y agoWell, then I guess that unlike New Yorkers, Russians actually listen to the law.
- frutiger 8y agoThere are amusing signs all over midtown declaring a $350 honking fine. There’s NYPD Traffic often directing when people should enter box junctions (apparently people are incapable without auch instruction). And yet all the cars are honking, all day long.
- jakeweary 8y agoSame in the UK. The sounding of a horn when a vehicle is stationary is prohibited, unless there is danger from a moving vehicle. It's generally respected, you rarely hear a car horn.
- gregknicholson 8y agoYou haven't been to central Manchester recently. Lots of people bring large cars into the city centre, then all expect to be able to move them around at top speed. When they don't get their way, they use the car's whinge button.