• Denvil@lemmy.one
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      1 day ago

      The horn is the forbidden button, I’ve only used it once in my life. Although I do wish we had like a “friendly” horn I could honk if somebody left their blinkers on, or their gas metal plate thingie open…

      • MonkRome@lemmy.world
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        22 hours ago

        Where I live a light tap of the horn, as short as you can make it, is a polite “wake up”, a quick flash of the lights is also used to tell people their lights are off or another thing is wrong.

    • fprawn@lemmy.world
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      No, this is mostly a Hollywood thing to indicate that the traffic is real bad and the driver is real mad. The reality is that birds aren’t allowed to drive, and probably wouldn’t even want to.

    • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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      23 hours ago

      Yes, I used to work in a building in downtown SF that was “historic” (old) with windows that actually opened, and every week day starting around 4pm we’d all close the single-pane windows to slightly quiet the irritating honking that was 17 stories below us. It was still audible but a good pair of headphones had a chance of being successful.

      All it ever took was one person’s honk to start a chain reaction that would go on for hours.

    • 0ops@lemm.ee
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      19 hours ago

      In most places I’ve been, no, but I’ve noticed that they do use the horn more on the east coast