How about you get off your damn phone and pay attention? It’s actually been green for five whole seconds.
The person at the front of the queue at a light has a solemn duty to pay attention and move as soon as possible .
I take this very seriously, but as with everything humans let me down constantly.
I’ve seen way too many idiots ignore red lights since COVID to “move as soon as possible” anymore. I’m not risking getting Tboned to appease some impatient twat behind me.
We don’t know if you’re high, sleeping, on your phone, or just watching SpongeBob on your infotainment panel. All we know is that you’re failing of the one expectation of you.
Honking at you gets your attention back where it needs to be. Don’t take it personal. People have places to be.Theoretically, if they just have a slower reaction time than you, you are actually slowing them down as they now have to look around to make sure you aren’t honking because of potential danger, which is the actual usage purpose of a car horn.
Edit: Additionally, this creates a broader societal danger as the “go when honked at!” mentality is entirely opposite of the true purpose of a horn.
Example: Person in front is about to go, you notice that someone is running the red light perpendicular, you honk to signal the danger, now instead of recognizing the danger, they go anyway, thinking you were impatiently honking, leading directly to an accident.
Honk means “pay attention”. If the light has been green long enough for me to honk at you you’re not paying attention to anything on the road, danger or otherwise.
For you specifically, maybe. Your experience is not universal and the original discussion was about people who honk instantly.
the original discussion was about people who honk instantly.
The top of this thread is someone saying they don’t know if you’re paying attention. I was replying to your comment about “honking meaning move immediately.”
Conversations shift as people say things. If I wanted to comment on the original discussion I would have started a new thread relplying to the original discussion. I was replying to you about the thing you said.
I took it as: The OP is about honking instantly.
The top of the thread is trying to justify impatiently honking immediately. “I’m impatient and idk why you aren’t moving immediately!”
Hence my response that they could just have a slower reaction time to the light turning.
So when you say “if the lights been green long enough”
I reply about how “green long enough” is subjective and the thread is biased towards the an Immediate honk.
You’re silly and dense.
Ffs just drive when the light turns green. Stop trying to find every little fucking loophole
some dude honked at me because I dared to stop at a level crossing because the other side wasn’t clear
I’m not getting ran over by a fucking train because I couldn’t wait a few seconds
They’re just yelling for joy at the light turning green
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Pay attention. Significantly more cars can make it through the lights per “green” if everyone moves as soon as they can. You’re creating extra stationery traffic for everyone.
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Some years ago, while still usihg a car, honking behind me on green light, automaticly caused to relay my start until the lights turned yellow again 🖕
This is not suggested as 1) honkers are usually already impatient and on edge 2) Road rage is real and very dangerous.
Road rage isn’t so real in the EU, I never had problems with it. Apart, what will he do, if I left him behind again with the red light?
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Ironic considering honkers are usually impatient/mad and are misusing the car horn because of that.
There is a period of time in which it becomes reasonable to honk at someone who hasn’t moved. In the extreme example it is not polite to sit behind someone who misses the green light entirely because they aren’t paying attention to the road. At some point the person in front is holding up traffic for everyone behind them and they are the one being rude.
The original discussion is specifically about people who honk instantly.
Obviously at a certain point it’s not only acceptable but necessary as parking at a green light is a road hazard itself.
You’re just accepting the altered framing from the original example to the counter example while I’m trying to keep it grounded on the original example.
We all have places to be, get out of the way.
Yeah, I get it Chet, you gotta get to the frat party and you’re all jacked up on stimulants so a second seems like forever .
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