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Mumbai Police Play a Trick on Honking Drivers
- httgp 7y agoThis is direly needed in every part of India. Everyone honks all the time and it can be maddening.
- knacky 7y agoCould the cars with the green signal honk to keep their lane flowing?
- ra7 7y agoThink the decibel meter is only connected to the red light.
- knacky 7y agoRight, so the green drivers would just keep resetting the red light's timer.
- ra7 7y agoAh! That's definitely an interesting case and quite possible.
- m-p-3 7y agoA way to counteract this would be to interconnect the mics to determine the origin of the sound and its flow. Nefarious drivers honking while passing the green light could be ignored, or have the green light cut short (but then you risk penalizing drivers behind them who might not be responsible).
- llampx 7y agoIf the gain is minimal, directional microphones are used, and they are mounted close to the road, this effect can be quite easily minimized.
- beerandt 7y agoMaybe excessive horn honking is a problem, but conditioning drivers to second guess their use of a safety device is a horrible, horrible idea.
- llampx 7y agoIt's not a safety device in the way it's used most of the time in India. This is absolutely a great move.