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Was initially thinking this would be easy to troll, but then there's good old fashioned mob justice.
by optimiz3 7y ago
Was initially thinking this would be easy to troll, but then there's good old fashioned mob justice.
- cmroanirgo 7y agoMaybe there'll be an uptick in the number of handheld air horns sold... eg. A pedestrian sees the lights about to change NOT in their favour: honk, and then they've got time to cross. See also: Cobra Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
- mrighele 7y agoFrom the video it seems that there need to be many cars honking together for the threshold to be passed. A single pedestrian would probably not be able to trigger it.
- toast0 7y agoMy experience of vehicular traffic was that traffic rules including traffic signals are a guideline. Like the SHOULD in an RFC, follow them if it makes sense, and maybe feel bad a little when you don't follow them, but if the light is red for too long, why not go through it? Also, as a conspiracy theory, I think the traffic signal boxes are resonant to common horn frequencies, and actually, if the honking is too loud, it shakes the timer loose and it resets. This is just a cover story to make the failing signal circuits look like a positive. :)
- AstralStorm 7y agoThey're more like MUST or at least SHALL. That is, if you ignore them you will get fined or cause accidents.
- toast0 7y agoAll the autorickshaws went backward on one way streets if it was convenient. You might get fined if there's an officer around, I suppose. But I didn't see nearly enough of them.
- brazzy 7y ago...or just a sensor that averages the signal a bit so that single honks don't trigger it.