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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yup. A quick tap of the horn or double tap is fine. Even a 1 second blast. Once we get into 2 seconds blast territory, it transitions to rude, with 3+ seconds going up linearly on the deranged jackass scale

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's the difference of saying hey and HHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYY! @#$@!#$!@@$@#$!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If said this for years, cars need a secondary polite horn

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What about a third, really aggressive horn that's just a train horn?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Install a compressor, tank, and train horn all off instragram

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sadly horn volume is regulated with the intention of preventing things like loud air horns from being used on personal vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, you just play thomas the tank engine theme

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I saw some video of an infuriatingly positive and giggly guy mod his horn this way. To add insult to injury iirc (which is about 50/50 after so many years) he used an arduino to do it. Video got a gazillion likes and many supporting comments. It unexpectadly became the last straw before deleting my facebook account.

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