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ShowerThoughtsThis used to be a requirement in NY - cars actually had a "NY horn circuit" in the 60's and 70's.
Gen1 Chevy Volt has this feature
I mean everyone's figured this out more or less though.
Gentle horn tap - polite, informative. "The light is green and you're spaced out, mate".
Pronounced depression (or two) on the horn - stern, informative. "You just swerved into another lane without indicating in heavy traffic, your behavior is risky".
Long extended honks, wild honking, something resembling Morse Code - impolite, abusive. "You just blew a stop sign", "you're driving on the wrong side of the road". "You could kill someone you fucking arsehat".
I moved from Boston to Southern California and it’s comical the differences in horn use.
Light turns green, car in front doesn’t go
SoCal: One one thousand two one thousand three one thousand four one thousand beep beep
Boston, one millisecond after the green light hits your eyes BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
Yeah here in Australia horn use is almost always offensive. Not reallyalways but that's the default assumption. If you're going to toot toot someone you know you do it fucking carefully after making sure there's no one near by that might think you're beeping at them.
My partner and I visited Vietnam about 15 years ago. The polar opposite. If you're in or in a vehicle and another vehicle is presently in or will be in your vicinity them you're toot toot tooting just to make everyone aware of your presence.
I genuinely like thee Vietnam approach if im honest. Very utilitarian.
Yea, NorEasters have zero patience (this now extends down to northern VA)
I saw this same post somewhere else but have the same reply: the INEOS Grenadier has two horns. There is a button on the steering wheel called “toot” and it is for pedestrians and cyclists.
You misunderstand the purpose of the car horn
Actually, they do have different volumes. At least, on Toyotas, the bottom of the steering wheel plays a much softer beep if you just tap it. I use that to indicate, "Come on, now," versus smacking the middle for, "Whoa, Nelly!" or "What the @#$% are you doing?"
My old Mercedes had this. Switch on the dash for "city" or "country" horn settings. Had the same for the headlights, city or highway settings. I loved that car.
I just need a button to play frustrated R2-D2 noises at people. Polite, humorous, and a gentle reminder that there are other humans in those other cars, but still gets the point across.
Trucks already have this. A town horn and a country horn
And a fun horn?
And a horn that says, "Hi there."
And both horns should only emit a short noise. The function is served with a short beep - anything more than that is just yelling at people in your multi-ton penis replacement.
If vehicles are penises, are Americans that want public transportation eggs?
Also, why are those people even in my penis replacement? No wonder I'm yelling at them.
https://youtu.be/lv8wqnk_TsA
Honk? Shit, they won’t even let you drive it soon.
Unpopular opinion: cars should have no horns. People use them to make incessant noise. Instead of turning the wheel when they are about to crash they just beep as if that's going to make the other vehicle move.
No reason to have them I will not give a full list of why they shouldn't exist and you can forget trying to convince me otherwise.
You have not thought this through. Plenty of accidents are prevented and preventable with a horn.
How would you indicate to someone that they're about to reverse into you when you don't have time/space to get out of the way?
I was playing devils’s advocate trying to come up with something, since I agree that car horns are obnoxious and repulsive if you’re just chilling at home or eating at a cafe
I wonder if theoretically, we could have mandated radios in cars? That way you could ping the vehicles around you directly? Maybe have a panic button that just causes the interior unit on the vehicles around you to flash?
Flash high beams, but you may have given the best example.
