Protip: Never use your car horn in anger. It doesn't accomplish anything positive and is likely not the intended use.In many jurisdictions, it's actually a ticketable violation. Car horns are meant to warn of immediate danger. If that danger has already passed (the person has already cut you off, etc), honking your horn is a violation. I wish they would actually enforce it sometimes.
How do you test that the horn works then. Also do not honk your horn if someone is under the hood of your car.
Just got through one of my favorite scenarios in road ragery an hour ago. I turned onto a busy road with lots of room before the next car was coming, but said car (a fairly nice Volvo sedan) decided that somehow I had cut them off (or was pissed I had gone into traffic ahead of them). So, they closed the gap doing about 60 MPH (in 40 MPH zone) until they hung right off my bumper. Which prompted me to tap on my brakes (for the light). The Volvo behind me brakes hard, I speed up. Raging driver behind me decided it wasn't such a smart idea to tailgate me anymore. Much hand gesticulation can be seen between the teen driving Mommy's Volvo and her passenger. =D
Sometimes karma sends you a giggle for your day.
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BIG cultural difference between California and New Jersey. Californians don't honk, New Jerseyans honk all the time to let off steam. When I moved from CA to NJ, it took me a few months before I learned not to take it personally. I've also heard from people who moved from NJ to CA and notice how much quieter the roads are--and how the communication between CA drivers scare them.Protip: Never use your car horn in anger. It doesn't accomplish anything positive and is likely not the intended use.In many jurisdictions, it's actually a ticketable violation. Car horns are meant to warn of immediate danger. If that danger has already passed (the person has already cut you off, etc), honking your horn is a violation. I wish they would actually enforce it sometimes.
Where in CA? Since moving to L.A. I've noticed a lot of gratuitous honking. Not as much as I've heard in NYC, but there's a lot.
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Californians don't honk, New Jerseyans honk all the time to let off steam. When I moved from CA to NJ, it took me a few months before I learned not to take it personally. I've also heard from people who moved from NJ to CA and notice how much quieter the roads are--and how the communication between CA drivers scare them.Where in CA? Since moving to L.A. I've noticed a lot of gratuitous honking. Not as much as I've heard in NYC, but there's a lot.
Okay, yeah, Northern California. Southern California is a whole different story. But even when I lived there, there wasn't a whole lot.
And there's even more honking in NJ than NYC, in my experience, once you control for the sheer density of vehicles.
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It was definitely a punk move on his part. I'm not down with getting out of your car to speak with someone unless there was an accident. Also flipping someone off is just plain infantile anyway, whenever someone does it to me I laugh at them (which unfortunately usually makes them more pissed off if they see it). And I still act fairly chivalrous around women even though I`m gay, and my relationship with women is usually more buddy buddy, I still open doors for them etc... Anyway hope things have gotten better since the incident.
New Jersey drivers are just scary period. They cut you off, NO turn signals, and consider bumper to bumper traffic acceptable at 55 mph.
I think it comes from their insane roads. Every other state i've been in you have a driveway, a street, a road, then a highway. In NJ it just goes from parking lot to highway with nothing in between.
If they STOP honking worry: it means they're reloading.
Where in CA? Since moving to L.A. I've noticed a lot of gratuitous honking. Not as much as I've heard in NYC, but there's a lot.BIG cultural difference between California and New Jersey. Californians don't honk, New Jerseyans honk all the time to let off steam. When I moved from CA to NJ, it took me a few months before I learned not to take it personally. I've also heard from people who moved from NJ to CA and notice how much quieter the roads are--and how the communication between CA drivers scare them.Protip: Never use your car horn in anger. It doesn't accomplish anything positive and is likely not the intended use.In many jurisdictions, it's actually a ticketable violation. Car horns are meant to warn of immediate danger. If that danger has already passed (the person has already cut you off, etc), honking your horn is a violation. I wish they would actually enforce it sometimes.
Are you sure it is not the stupid amount of cars in LA. Also aren't you supposed to honk on blind corner on one lane roads without one lane each way.
Protip: Never use your car horn in anger. It doesn't accomplish anything positive and is likely not the intended use.
In Tampa, it is required. Of everybody. All the time.
Just got through one of my favorite scenarios in road ragery an hour ago. I turned onto a busy road with lots of room before the next car was coming, but said car (a fairly nice Volvo sedan) decided that somehow I had cut them off (or was pissed I had gone into traffic ahead of them). So, they closed the gap doing about 60 MPH (in 40 MPH zone) until they hung right off my bumper. Which prompted me to tap on my brakes (for the light). The Volvo behind me brakes hard, I speed up. Raging driver behind me decided it wasn't such a smart idea to tailgate me anymore. Much hand gesticulation can be seen between the teen driving Mommy's Volvo and her passenger. =D
Sometimes karma sends you a giggle for your day.
I like to do the "drunken swerve and correct" for them.
It was definitely a punk move on his part. I'm not down with getting out of your car to speak with someone unless there was an accident. Also flipping someone off is just plain infantile anyway, whenever someone does it to me I laugh at them (which unfortunately usually makes them more pissed off if they see it). And I still act fairly chivalrous around women even though I`m gay, and my relationship with women is usually more buddy buddy, I still open doors for them etc... Anyway hope things have gotten better since the incident.
I feel better;
something BAD happened a long time ago, and I have a rage issue about it sometimes; something bad that happened when I wasn't there.It was a lot like CH's example, except the old guy in the ICU was my dad, the lummox in question used a steel pipe and only got 1 year's probation for ruining our lives for a year or so, and I wasn't there to f@*! some s!&~ up.
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