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If I had a nickel for every time I honked at a street light.....or parking meter......or future roadkill. Drivers Ed would be a little funnier, though. |
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If you're performing a panic stop for street lights and parking meters, [yabba_do_yabba_dabba], the rest of us would do well to be warned of your presence. [+] |
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(-) for your attitude. Lighten up! You must've been riding my Unmerry-Go-Round a little too much... |
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Huh. Tempting. I can never honk when I'm panic stopping or swerving or anything else, and that's usually when it's most appropriate to use the tootle. |
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I'll think about it. Undecided for now. |
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False alarms. One person slams on the brakes, subsequently honks, causing nearby motorists to be alarmed, subsequently braking, causing nearby motorists to be alarmed, subsequently braking, subsequently honking. Noise pollution, ad infinitum. |
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Brilliant deduction, Detective. I need to work on making the facetious more obvious. |
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The author presumes the horn should sound in every situation requiring quick, heavy braking. Not so. |
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How about a dual signal:
ABS brakes engage AND double-death-grip on steering wheel at the 10'oclock and 2'oclock positions causes airhorn to sound. |
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I was about to post this.....six years too late. |
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I think it makes sense, as long as it is not activated by
anything except very heavy braking. Heavy braking almost
always indicates that something has gone wrong with your
driving experience. Either it's someone else's fault (in
which case you want to honk them, and more importantly
alert following drivers before they rear-end you), or it's
your fault (but again, surrounding drivers or pedestrians
need a heads-
up). |
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So why not? What were the inapplicable scenarios which
[waugs] alluded to? |
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You might be driving at night through a residential
area in which using the horn would be illegal, and
would wake everyone up. There's no one on the road
but you and, not paying attention, you notice the
light change to red just a little bit too late -
SCREECH!!! |
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Possible. But equally it might be a red light at a pedestrian
crossing, in which case the horn might give the guy a chance
to step back on the kerb. Or disable it when (a) it's dark AND
(b) you're doing less than 40mph when you brake. |
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// inapplicable scenarios // |
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You know. Mainly the one with the Giant Squid doing a striptease in a huge Lego vat of chocolate sauce and moist towlettes, accompanied by an albino Koala on burning liquorice bagpipes. |
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Maybe make slamming the brake on activate an
easily triggered horn switch around the perimeter
of the steering wheel. You sound the horn by
squeezing the wheel but only if the brakes were
slammed on at the same time. |
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This would eliminate having to reach for the horn
in the center of the wheel while braking and
steering out of the way of a car veering into your
lane for instance. It would also eliminate all the
false honks unless you slammed on the brakes and
squeezed the steering wheel at the same time in
non-emergency situations, in which case you're
retarded and shouldn't be driving anyway. |
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You'd still have the regular horn in the middle of
the wheel, you'd just have this "emergency
situation easy to trigger" horn as well. |
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So {+] but only if it has this added, otherwise
you'd be hearing horn honks all day. Additionally,
you might get a very dangerous situation where
people hold back hitting their brakes hard because
they don't want the horn to honk. |
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