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Honking is basically the only real way drivers have to communicate with the world outside their car. When a honk is needed to say anything you have to use it fo
by kqr 3y ago
Honking is basically the only real way drivers have to communicate with the world outside their car. When a honk is needed to say anything you have to use it for everything.
(The contrast is particularly stark against e.g. cycling where you can just match pace with a stranger and hold a brief conversation about whatever happened.)
- rhaway84773 3y agoHonking is about drivers releasing their frustration and nothing else. For one thing, everyone in other cars have their ACs and music on and cannot hear the honking anyways. So you’re not communicating with them anyways. And if you’re honking at pedestrians in a first world country you’re driving wrong.
- omegabravo 3y agoI think I can count on two hands the amount of times I've used my horn in 20 years of driving. It's used for when I think someone hasn't seen me (ie. reversing), or if the lights have turned green and the person isn't paying attention. The latter will be a bump on the horn (so about 100ms) where I doubt it gets up to full volume. People are quite happy to wind down the window in order to show their displeasure with a hand gesture where I live.