If you do you give others the go ahead to engage you in road rage type activities! If they stop in the middle of the road for no apparent reason, you can't blow your horn! If they stop in the middle of making a turn for no apparent reason, you can't blow your horn! If they stop in the middle of the road to window shop, you can't blow your horn! If they are stuck on stoopid when the light turns green, you can't blow your horn! If you blow your horn at one of these entitled, priveleged, self righteous and oh so unoffensive people you are a criminal, you lack patience and you just don't understand the failure mentality that rules our planet today. What ever happened to road courtesy, pulling over to the side of the road to do things other than driving, trying to keep the flow of traffic unimpeded? No, today you can fling your door open in front of traffic and step out into it because you are entitled to. No one is allowed to run you over, or Gawd forbid, BLOW THEIR HORN.... You can stop traffic and make everyone wait while you send that text message or have that life changing cell phone conversation, it's OK, really! You are not inconveniencing anyone or being rude or disrespectful at all! It's just business as usual. The world should understand, it's your right. You can jog down the busiest street in town with a double wide baby stroller at rush hour, with your best GF alongside you with HER double wide baby stroller. It's OK really! You do NOT have the use of the sidewalks or public parks for your jogging pleasure, you insist on doing it in the middle of the road to make sure that we all understand that you are so terribly inconvenienced, that there simply is no other LOGICAL choice for you... And Gawd FORBID we blow the horn at you! Your hormone-ally imbalanced induced rage will be unleashed on the unlucky soul who violates YOUR sense of entitlement... AND MAKE SURE YOU ALL REMEMBER - DON'T COMPLAIN TO THE LEO'S or they will get their panties in a bunch too because you are telling them how to run their town or do their job. No, you have to suckit up and deal with it but don't forget the annual PBA donation. Throw out the rules that are written in the drivers education manuals, they are only a wish list, they mean nothing today. That driver in the left lane who just made a right turn in front of you and didn't even use a turn signal, causing you to lock up your brakes and take evasive action...fuggedaboudit, don't blow your horn, if you do, remember, you are the one in the wrong for not having patience or the foresight to know what was going to happen... What ever happens, if you blow your horn, you are wrong! I am so-ooo tempted to get a dash camera just so I can publicize this stupidity, this lack of common sense and respect... it might make a fun hobby! Sort of like America's funniest home videos but exposing these morons, hopefully publicly embarrassing them. The law doesn't want to deal with them so it is up to the public to come up with something creative. rant over...
So how do You really feelou: I live on the longest and most dangerous road in Canada and I see all that You have described.
Last week driving a back road route to work on gravel, up ahead was a car pulled over on the left side edge of the ditch. Facing same direction I'm traveling. As I approach, 55mph road, she pulls out into the middle of the road and STOPS dead in the road. I'm thinking maybe something is really wrong. Pull up on her left, she starts rolling down the window so I oblige. Turns out she's delivering phone books out in the country and wants to know if I know the address of the farmhouse she was parked by... ou:
So what about trains in North America... they already start blowing their horns when they think that an ant is walking to close to the tracks. In the Netherlands the police can write you a 360.00 Euro / US$ 492.00 ticket if you use your horn when there is no need for it.
dash cam It's not a bad idea.... blowing the horn for anything other than emergency is technically illegal in Alabama... ---------- Post added at 07:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:32 PM ---------- too :grin:
I just rev my engine and sometimes scream at the idiots P's good dash cam for cheap would be Sony as-15 Should only be about 150 ish now new model is out
If you want some quality dashcam footage, here ya go: http://www.reddit.com/r/Roadcam/. 90% of the vids are from Russia...
It's sad to (too?) see that after almost two years that "Lynard Skynard" and "form" post still hurts....
Ha!! I couldn't resist!! I think I'll just leave my mistake that way... If my spelling HAD been correct, The post is still two states off !! Ha!ha!
It's rare to hear a car horn used here. Even in downtown Mpls & St. Paul during the height of rush hour. Using it in cases other than an immediate emergency is equal to giving someone the finger and telling them to F off.
When these distracted drivers start drifting into my lane and are about to hit me I blast my horn. I DO NOT SWERVE away from them. Go ahead, hit me.
In Mass, the only reason you are "supposed to" use your horn is to alert someone when they are doing something that might cause a problem (i.e. changing into your lane because they didn't look, etc.). However I like to use it as a "you did something stupid" button too. -Bob
Not a horn blower unless its warranted. Im a more of a hand waver and gesture giver. The horn in the F250 blows by just rubbing your hand on it where the horn in the Sprinter takes two hands to get a blast off. Most times its not worth the trouble.
I'd be all for removing horns on all vehicles altogether because most of the time they aren't being used for the purpose they were intended. Might as well make cruise control and turn signals an option too, around here it seems no one knows how to use them anyway.
How do you use your cruise control in a wrong way ? Only thing I can imagine is when you use it when the roads are slippery.... o No: By the way: In Belgium they have traffic signs saying this: How are they able to check on an older (non-computerised) vehicle if the cruise control was on or off during an accident
Actually I was referring to so many who can't seem to keep a steady speed even on the interstate. I think it's like the old saying of not being able to walk and chew gum at the same time, or in this case use the cruise control and talk on the phone at the same time and you end up passing and being passed over and over by the same car for miles and miles. They pass, pull in in front of you and slow down, so in your attempt to keep a steady speed, you pass them only to have them do it again.
Had to chuckle at this.. Having lived in N MPLS on an off for 40 years, I can tell you that in the last 20 or so, the horn has replaced the door bell in that part of town. Out where I live now, I blow the horn at deer... does that count? Never had much use for the horn myself, just swerve out of the way and keep moving has been my motto. Don't figure that the horn will cure stupidity. JW
