I get especially annoyed at lights when people are slow to react. You know why? 9 times out of 10 theyre on their phones and not paying attention. Thats what makes me angry, not the delay.
I get that, but I also sometimes see the people behind them when walking completely loose their shit from that, visibly angry, leaning in, yelling and honking, which I feel is a bit overkill.
I don’t know where you learned to drive, but I clearly remember that lesson from driving school “honking is only to be used in case of immediate danger”. Which, here, is clearly not the case.
Cars really need a variety of horns. Like one that politely says “pardon me, do you happen to have any grey poupon?” and one that says “move or I’ll rip yer fucken eyeballs out!”
Trucks in SEA often do, they have this warbling “hey, I’m here”, and then a much more aggressive “get the fuck out of the way!”. People also modulate their bike horn to just give a little chirp so the person you’re passing knows you’re there, or two to say thank you, 3+ loud ones to say “get out of the way”, etc
One long hold — aggressive
A gentle “beep beep”, seems more friendly. At least, to me, and I hope that’s how it’s perceived.
I do the beep beep at red-turn green lights, but try to wait a little. It’s midly annoying if a driver doesn’t react quick enough but driving is a frustrating enough experience as it is. No need to add fuel to the fire, so to speak. I’ve been beeped at the moment the lights turned green, and at the time, my foot was already pressing the gas. I felt embarrassed… my car does not react that quickly!
I get especially annoyed at lights when people are slow to react. You know why? 9 times out of 10 theyre on their phones and not paying attention. Thats what makes me angry, not the delay.
I get that, but I also sometimes see the people behind them when walking completely loose their shit from that, visibly angry, leaning in, yelling and honking, which I feel is a bit overkill.
Honking is like the most not overkill thing ever when a car isn’t moving at a green light
I don’t know where you learned to drive, but I clearly remember that lesson from driving school “honking is only to be used in case of immediate danger”. Which, here, is clearly not the case.
Cars really need a variety of horns. Like one that politely says “pardon me, do you happen to have any grey poupon?” and one that says “move or I’ll rip yer fucken eyeballs out!”
Trucks in SEA often do, they have this warbling “hey, I’m here”, and then a much more aggressive “get the fuck out of the way!”. People also modulate their bike horn to just give a little chirp so the person you’re passing knows you’re there, or two to say thank you, 3+ loud ones to say “get out of the way”, etc
One long hold — aggressive A gentle “beep beep”, seems more friendly. At least, to me, and I hope that’s how it’s perceived.
I do the beep beep at red-turn green lights, but try to wait a little. It’s midly annoying if a driver doesn’t react quick enough but driving is a frustrating enough experience as it is. No need to add fuel to the fire, so to speak. I’ve been beeped at the moment the lights turned green, and at the time, my foot was already pressing the gas. I felt embarrassed… my car does not react that quickly!