What is the norm for you, when you are behind the car in pole position at the stop light and they driver doesn't seem to have noticed that the light has turned green. Also, if you are in the 3-hole slot, and the guy sitting behind the non-mover is wussing out, do you step up to the plate?
If you mean that the car in front of you doesn't move when the light turns green? I don't honk unless it at a turn signal.
I usually come across this at turn signals, where time is more of the essence than at a regular stop light. I'm a 3-5 second kind of guy myself. Sometimes I hesitate and then right when I'm about to softly tap my horn I see the brake lights go off.
i voted for the 1-2 second option, but i have a slightly different approach. see, my horn doesnt work right now. so if some dumbass is infront of me looking around not realizing the green light ahead of us, i simply roll the window down and yell "HEY!" as loud as possible. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. but if my approach fails, the person behind me should be honking their horn by then. problem solved.
Me too. But if I can see they're on their phone, I'm laying on the horn until I see the brake lights go out.
Amen. I hate people that txt and drive...or just blab on the phone not paying attention. That really bugs me too
3-5 secs then a honk. If I'm in the 3rd spot, and the person in front of me hasn't honked, I wait another sec and then honk.
The key is to lightly tap the horn. Like a little tiny tap so it barely squeaks. So they guy knows ah I need to go, thanks for letting me know, rather than holy crap the guy behind is mad - I feel kind of weird now, I better speed off 55mph and hide my face.
i combine my extreme impatience with my desire to not have a confrontation and end up in 3-5 second land. closer to 3 seconds. which is sort of stupid because if they weren't paying attention they won't know if i waited 1 second or 5 seconds anyway. if i can see they're clearly not looking (looking on the floor for something, on the phone, etc) and not just spaced out then i might honk a little earlier. i think i've honked from the 3-hole before but i usually just wuss out and wait.
In the US, people are real sticklers about using their horn - it's perceived too easily as a rude gesture. Sometimes, out of your courtesy, you just want to alert someone that there is something going on that isn't a big emergency. Tapping the horn isn't used so much in the US because people are afraid of being seemingly rude but I think it should be more utilized for things like bicyclists, the greenlight situation, alerting someone they're out of their lane slightly etc... Highbeams can be used the same way (if they aren't aimed in a blinding way at oncoming traffic) - good to signal passes, "cop behind me" etc. - but are often seen as rude/used wrongly to some people. The problem is of course when people abuse their horn with a lack of effectual understanding like honking loudly for smaller alerts above or blaring horns in traffic that obvious isn't going to move faster with more noise. It's not just unhelpful and rude but actually defeats the purpose of the horn and desensitizes drivers to the sound (which can lead to more dangerous situations). Maybe they should invent a second "quiet/calm horn" for smaller alerts like above.
3-5 seconds i tap the horn a little if i can see they are on the phone or talking to someone in the car i lay it on loud the time when i just do not let off the horn is when people at stop signs in adjacent lanes start talking to each other and hold up both lanes of traffic even if its just 2 seconds
Thank you! That seriously irritates the crap out of me. I drive a lowered sports car and I can't tell you how many times I've almost been run off the road due to these idiots not paying attention. The ones who drive 20mph in a 40 zone also make me punch my horn, daily. Cell phone use in the car should be banned forever.
That's what she S--- Oh, "slot"... ok... slot. No, I let the front person wait one second, then 2 seconds for the person on the second spot, then I honk.
Yes, I do 3-5 and then the light tap. The light tap is very non-threatening. It is a friendly little reminded that hopefully nobody would take offense to and jump out of their cars wielding a sawed-off shotgun. I save the blaring of the horn for idiocy, like when an ******* suddenly decides its a good idea to cut 3 lanes of traffic off because they weren't paying attention and missed their exit.
I give him a light slow bump from behind. And my light I mean tear that s$&! up. And by slow I mean accelerating to crazy speeds. I rarely don't condone rear-ending (or getting rear-ended) but this is a rare exception. There you go Swoly-D. See how perverted you can make the above statement.
Sorry 'bout that. I was starting to grow a tail and had to drop a deuce in the worst way. I'm carrying around a empty box now, won't happen again.
There's a one-time TWSS limit in a page in a thread, Mr. 94, sir. Had you been on page 2, we'd be laughing away at my immature response.
