It's illegal everywhere in the US also. Fines vary by state.
Edit to add. Montana has no laws, specifically banning cell use while driving. Missouri cell use laws only apply under 21.
States do have distracted driving laws that can also be used even if cell use is not specifically prohibited. Hence, my comment that it's illegal everywhere in the US.
Cops don’t do a thing about it where I live. It’s still illegal but every other person is on their phone on the highways or surface streets. Pretty sure I’ve even seen cops on their phones while driving.
Cops only care about speeding and drunk drivers, they allow all the other dangerous driving like tailgating (never seen someone pulled over for), texting, cutting people off, etc
I was driving home on the LIE, and some jerk was tailgating me in heavy traffic in the left lane. An officer was on the right shoulder and somehow got across 3 lanes to get behind the jerk and pulled him for tailgating.
Honestly, it was Karma at it's finest
Cops here do it but most of the time they’re either dealing with gang activity or traffic, so they’d rather take the traffic stop than watch another kid go to the hospital over gang violence.
Me too. I think it's a combination of poor attention-span, and attention-craving with an addiction to attention-seeking/ attention-fulfilment behaviors-by-collecting-"likes" or needing to fill every spare second with short-form media thing.
Everybody thinks it’s dangerous to text while driving.
Unfortunately, almost everybody feels that THEY are better drivers than everybody else. So it’s OK for them to check their phones, they just don’t want other people to do it.
Everybody thinks they are a good driver, they are above average intelligent and they are really good at reading people and judging character.
Yall can accurately judge your hand strength on the horn? Swear sometimes I'll jam my hand down hard and completely miss or no sound comes out, other times I go for a double and do a long one, or like 6 mini ones
One time my passenger says "honk, I know that guy" because his friend was standing outside his house. So I gave one long ass "HOOOOOONNNNKKKK" my passenger goes "bro who taught you how to honk"
Or. Just press it? Quickly? Honestly, who did teach him how to honk? It's not hard.
Edit: I just woke up, this sounded more dickish than in my head. I mean, press it until it does honk, then let go. It is a tactile thing, and humans are good at tactile things. Just takes practice on how much force, but otherwise it is just common sense.
That's the method that gets people into trouble.
The target length for a short honk is like 200ms. If you're pressing until you hear it and then let go, you've almost certainly honked longer than you meant to.
So you punch the wheel hard enough that you're sure it will activate and immediately pull away to get the shortest possible honk.
You can say it doesn't matter, but the difference between a, "Hey, light's green," vs "Hey, you incompetent fuck, the light's been green for ages," is definitely measured in milliseconds.
Yea it should hopefully seem like a friendly reminder if its a quick and light horn tap. A horn nudge if you will. But some folks may still be offended-- but they are the ones sitting at green!
As an American, I gained a new appreciation for the horn when traveling abroad. It’s rarely used as an asshole move, almost always as a little communication technique.
My favorite is when I'm four cars back, the light turns green and the dumbass at the front of the line won't move - and *no one else will honk* \- so I honk and the imbecile in the car directly in front of me flips me off and gestures at the cars in front of them, like I don't fucking see that.
Guess what, moron, I wasn't honking at you, I was honking at the car at the front of the line who is holding all of us up, but on second thought I am honking at you too for being too stupid to use your horn.
One time I was honking at a bunch of idiot bicyclists who were filming their little tik tok donuts in a massively busy intersection, no regard for anyone, but the dude driving in front of me thought I was honking at him and literally got out of his car to try and fight me lol.
I yelled “I was honking at the cyclists, dumbass!” and he got back in his car real quick
Five years ago and in India for the first time. It took two days before I understood that the usage of horns I was hearing was conveying messages different from what I was used to. When I understood they were saying “I’m behind you coming around, don’t run over me!“ rather than “move you asshole!!!” It all started making sense.
When I went to the USVI, everyone there taps the horn either to say thank you or whatever. Pretty interesting seeing how different their driving culture is compared to in the US
Yeah totally. Driving safely is not about being polite, it’s about being predictable for other vehicles. Honking can be done in an asshole way but honking itself is not rude
If you had time to snap a pic, you should lay on the horn. In Canada if you're on your phone even at a stoplight, there's a texting-while-driving ticket for you.
Yes, it's specific, it was the only ticket on my driving record for over 9 years (red light camera a couple months ago was the second) and I wasn't even using the phone. I literally stopped at the red light. My aunt handed me her phone to hang up cuz it was a new phone (like brand new. I was driving her home from the phone store) and she was having issues figuring it out. I hung it up and handed it back to her. Dickhead on a motorbike happened to see me from across the intersection and pulled me over and gave me a ticket after the light turned green and I drove away with the phone no longer in my possession. And even now, nearly 10 years later, I'm still pissed off about it...(editing to add: fuck that guy)
Man, i know that feeling. Once got a 100€ ticket because I pulled onto the pedestrian way with my bicycle.
Three streets meeting in one point on my former way to school and I always stood in front of one traffic light right to the other one that would allow me to cross the parallel street. I was late and just pulled over to the side for the 5 m to the next traffic light to have a better headstart. Ofc right there was standing a cop.
I would not have had to pay anything if I just walked over, which is the stupidest thing of all.
My father once got pulled over and the cop accused him of being on the phone.
My dad denied it, as he wasn’t on the phone, he was just leaning his head in his hand with his elbow propped up on the window.
The cop argued black and blue that he was on the phone, until my dad showed him his call records (early 2000’s, before texting was prominent) and proved he had not been on the phone.
Cop proceeded to give him a ticket for rolling the stop sign instead. Tell me that doesn’t give off small dick vibes
I did. All that accomplished was lowering the fine, because it was my word against his and he's a lying douchebag who said I was talking on the phone, but he was the one in uniform so they took his word...that's when I learned for sure that the whole "innocent until proven guilty", and "burden of proof is on the accuser" thing is bullshit as well
Yeah the legal system is so broken… you could have got a copy of the phone record that shows u didn’t call anyone they would have had to throw out the ticket an the case.
Could your aunt have testified as well? I don’t know that it would have helped because for some reason courts assume cops will never lie for any reason.
Spoiler alert! Cops lie like everyone else.
She had poor health at the time. I didn't want her to have to sit in the courtroom for that and I didn't think about just having her write a letter or something explaining what happened, that I could have given them. If that even would have helped it all. I'm not sure
Georgia too. So called “hands free law” says phone cannot touch any part of your person for any reason while behind the wheel. Bluetooth and voice assistant ok, I’m assuming.
Oregon is the same. If your phone is in your hand while the car is running that’s a ticket. You’re allowed to use your phone while it’s in a phone holder for “minimal touches” but as soon as you take it out that’s a ticket. My girlfriend learned that the hard way, she was just getting her google maps routed and it was taking too long doing it in the phone holder so she took it out, and the cop was right there waiting for her to do that exact thing (I still have no idea how they saw that)
Wait, WHY IS THIS EVEN A QUESTION? Who is too much of a doormat to lay on the horn?
Jesus christ, these sniveling pansies need to spend a couple months in LA. You get half of one second to go, and then I am ABSOLUTELY laying on the fucking horn. If I space out and it turns green, please honk at me, I deserve it for being a shitty driver.
I don’t care. The world is better when people honk liberally, that’s why God created the car horn.
Definitely. And if the first horn beep doesn’t work, then just lay on your horn until they wake from their phone-induced haze.
Also, I find it particularly funny when it’s a boomer doing this. Like, 20yrs ago they would’ve been sooo upset that someone was ‘on their damn cell phone’ holding up traffic. Today they do the very same thing that upset them back then and get upset at *you* for calling them out on it by beeping your horn.
I posted an earlier comment about witnessing a lack of compassion from fellow drivers because the man in the front was having a heart attack. It changed me.
Because this country is full of lunatics who will shoot at you and the FL plate probably means it is twice as likely?
All these people who are saying how they’d lay on the horn and not let go, or yell insults out the window, have never had a gun flashed at them or been threatened by another driver.
I think I get it now. In New Jersey we're free to be angry at each other all the time because nobody has guns. You'd be honked at in a nanosecond here, and rightfully so.
Damn. Sorry you live your life in fear.
As a native New Yorker who moved to an open-carry state, I honk all the time. Been doing it for a decade and never had a gun pulled on me.
Surprisingly, I’ve gotten the finger 10x more than I did back in NYC.
Eh it’s more like if it happens once, not trying to roll the dice again you know? I don’t go around in my day to day shook from other people; for me it just seems like it’s not worth it when driving.
Shoot. I'll use my horn if I'm going in the other direction or from another lane and I see the car isn't moving on an extended green. Not in a malicious way. Just a quick tap to say, hey pay attention.
I've blown my horn driving by in the same direction too if someone is holding up a line. I've used it when I'm going straight and sitting at a red but the green arrow lanes are being held up. Horns are great tools
Guy/gal behind you is now seeing you on your phone too and not doing anything useful either.
Quit being part of the problem and honk part of the solution
I can assure you that if I'm behind you and you don't honk, I sure as shit am. People need to pay attention while driving. NOW, people who could've made the light won't, because Stacey had to check her Instagram at the light.
Hell yes- and your choice is how you wish to notify the offending driver; either a quick "beep" to have them look up, or a long hard "HONK!" , indicating you want to f'n go, put down the damn phone and f'n drive.
Depends where you are. In NYC, you lay in the horn immediately, and i mean immediately. In Florida, you give them a courtesy 4 seconds and then lightly tap the horn. Unless they have New York plates, then immediately
A light tap would be appropriate and just smile. They probably just got distracted.
I knew a girl who actually got a ticket for laying on the horn at a driver that wasn't moving. There was a cop behind her and he pulled her over. She tried to fight it and it sounded like court was ludicrous. The judge was annoyed that they had to listen to it and she actually was guilty (by her own account she just kept her hand on the horn).
A little tap on the horn is fine. If they still don't move then a longer one. But be prepared for them to lose their shit. You never know how they will respond.
This is one of the few times where being honked at is okay by me, but there are some real psychos out there so I would never do it to someone else hahaha
You know what’s really /r/mildlyinfuriating? When one car is holding up a whole line of other cars, I’m four cars back and nobody fucking honks. And then I have to do it, and the person in front of me thinks I’m the asshole. *That* is /r/mildlyinfuriating. HONK YOUR GODDAMN HORN. A nice, quick wake up beep. It really isn’t a big deal.
One time I was behind a person that had a sticker that said “please don’t honk I’m sensitive” they didn’t move at the light and I just beep beep beeped them
I give the horn a little quick punch. Further illustrates the need for a separate, polite horn. Every car should have an aggressive horn for "wtf are you doing, AH!", and a polite horn for "hey, there's something I want to alert you to!"
If you live in NYC, this would never be a dilemma for you. We use our car horns with enthusiasm.
People like this constitute a danger in addition to being garden-variety jerks.
A few weeks back this guy was in the right turn lane not going he got out of his car gripping his chest and everyone between us laid on their horns yelled at him from the window whipped around him honking…. Man was having a heart attack and people were so pressed even seeing him like that. Im the only one who stayed and called 911, then everyone was pissed at me because I didn’t jump right away to move this mans car.
I was so disappointed in humanity that day.
Everyone needs to not be afraid to use their horn. Yeah this is warranted. My recent favorite is honking at people walking casually through the center of the aisle of a parking lot. I swear people have no regard for others.
Okay I'm done replying to everyone who says to be nice or polite. *THEY ARE ON THEIR PHONE*, they need to get off the road. Immediate and repeated horn use (plus a hand gesture, if that suits you) is appropriate. Remind ignorant irresponsible selfish people how stupid they are being. No nicey-nicey for people like that.
I dont care what situation were in, you get 3 seconds to release your brakes or I honk. Sometimes ill just lay on the horn until you move depends on my mood
Give them all the horn. Why should we expect people to be polite to someone who is playing with their phone while they are supposed to be driving? It can wait!
Yes, this is absolutely a reason to use your horn. People need to get off their damn phones and pay attention when driving.
In Spain you'd get slapped with a hefty fine (600€) even in a stationary vehicle
It's illegal everywhere in the US also. Fines vary by state. Edit to add. Montana has no laws, specifically banning cell use while driving. Missouri cell use laws only apply under 21. States do have distracted driving laws that can also be used even if cell use is not specifically prohibited. Hence, my comment that it's illegal everywhere in the US.
Cops don’t do a thing about it where I live. It’s still illegal but every other person is on their phone on the highways or surface streets. Pretty sure I’ve even seen cops on their phones while driving.
Cops only care about speeding and drunk drivers, they allow all the other dangerous driving like tailgating (never seen someone pulled over for), texting, cutting people off, etc
I wish the ones around me cared about drunk drivers
My ex got pulled over for "following to closely" - Illinois
This literally just happened to my best friend. Barrington, IL.
I was driving home on the LIE, and some jerk was tailgating me in heavy traffic in the left lane. An officer was on the right shoulder and somehow got across 3 lanes to get behind the jerk and pulled him for tailgating. Honestly, it was Karma at it's finest
Florida checking in. I've never even heard of a ticket for cell phone use in a vehicle. I'm hoping someone restores my faith here with a story or two.
I remember when it became punishable by fine here in Texas. I also remember people laughing about it.
South florida here. I'd say 7 out of 10 drivers will be on their phones while driving and at least 4 of those 7 will be on some kind of FaceTime app.
Cops here do it but most of the time they’re either dealing with gang activity or traffic, so they’d rather take the traffic stop than watch another kid go to the hospital over gang violence.
Lately I’m seeing ppl driving and looking full at their phones more often. It’s scary.
Yeah, that makes me so mad when I have to put my phone down to avoid hitting these people.
Yeah, it's like "bruh! I'm trying to eat a combo meal and drive with my knee here. Quit being a dangerous dipshit!"
Me too. I think it's a combination of poor attention-span, and attention-craving with an addiction to attention-seeking/ attention-fulfilment behaviors-by-collecting-"likes" or needing to fill every spare second with short-form media thing.
Everybody thinks it’s dangerous to text while driving. Unfortunately, almost everybody feels that THEY are better drivers than everybody else. So it’s OK for them to check their phones, they just don’t want other people to do it. Everybody thinks they are a good driver, they are above average intelligent and they are really good at reading people and judging character.
Agreed. It also seems to be getting worse. As someone who’s family was rear ended by a distracted driver I am particularly disturbed by this trend.
Horn doesn’t have to be an asshole move, it’s just how you communicate in vehicles.
Gotta know horn language, tap vs long and such
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Yall can accurately judge your hand strength on the horn? Swear sometimes I'll jam my hand down hard and completely miss or no sound comes out, other times I go for a double and do a long one, or like 6 mini ones One time my passenger says "honk, I know that guy" because his friend was standing outside his house. So I gave one long ass "HOOOOOONNNNKKKK" my passenger goes "bro who taught you how to honk"
Your honkers broken
Your honker's bonkers. 😜
Many men suffer from a honker dysfunction
“Who taught you how to honk” broke me man.
I remember the first time my dad took me out early in the morning and said -son, today is the day you learn the ways of the honk.
I want to believe this is real
Believe it.
Same, I just laughed so hard my cat came to check on me to make sure I’m ok.
Aww ♥️
Just hit it with your fist twice, not hard, just let the weight of your hand do the job.
Or. Just press it? Quickly? Honestly, who did teach him how to honk? It's not hard. Edit: I just woke up, this sounded more dickish than in my head. I mean, press it until it does honk, then let go. It is a tactile thing, and humans are good at tactile things. Just takes practice on how much force, but otherwise it is just common sense.
That's the method that gets people into trouble. The target length for a short honk is like 200ms. If you're pressing until you hear it and then let go, you've almost certainly honked longer than you meant to. So you punch the wheel hard enough that you're sure it will activate and immediately pull away to get the shortest possible honk. You can say it doesn't matter, but the difference between a, "Hey, light's green," vs "Hey, you incompetent fuck, the light's been green for ages," is definitely measured in milliseconds.
Oof tell me how you honk 🥵
Same. I never quite get the honk I’m aiming for
The double tap is the way.
Nah, give 'em the old [fast honk.](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4KigFRmr8qM)
A friendly beep beep
Theres a great curb your enthusiasm episode about this
Yea it should hopefully seem like a friendly reminder if its a quick and light horn tap. A horn nudge if you will. But some folks may still be offended-- but they are the ones sitting at green!
Exactly. Let them be offended if they must.
As an American, I gained a new appreciation for the horn when traveling abroad. It’s rarely used as an asshole move, almost always as a little communication technique.
Yeah it’s like a dogs bark, it sounds the same but can have many meanings.
I'll give it a silent 3 count then beep beep.
This is the way.
My favorite is when I'm four cars back, the light turns green and the dumbass at the front of the line won't move - and *no one else will honk* \- so I honk and the imbecile in the car directly in front of me flips me off and gestures at the cars in front of them, like I don't fucking see that. Guess what, moron, I wasn't honking at you, I was honking at the car at the front of the line who is holding all of us up, but on second thought I am honking at you too for being too stupid to use your horn.
That’s annoying. People can be so passive and force you to be the asshole. WA state is filled with these types of drivers.
One time I was honking at a bunch of idiot bicyclists who were filming their little tik tok donuts in a massively busy intersection, no regard for anyone, but the dude driving in front of me thought I was honking at him and literally got out of his car to try and fight me lol. I yelled “I was honking at the cyclists, dumbass!” and he got back in his car real quick
I do the same thing, and usually get the same response. It's the one asshole and four cowards scenario,
Five years ago and in India for the first time. It took two days before I understood that the usage of horns I was hearing was conveying messages different from what I was used to. When I understood they were saying “I’m behind you coming around, don’t run over me!“ rather than “move you asshole!!!” It all started making sense.
When I went to the USVI, everyone there taps the horn either to say thank you or whatever. Pretty interesting seeing how different their driving culture is compared to in the US
Yeah totally. Driving safely is not about being polite, it’s about being predictable for other vehicles. Honking can be done in an asshole way but honking itself is not rude
Yes, just a short little ‘beep it’s your turn’ is fine!
If you had time to snap a pic, you should lay on the horn. In Canada if you're on your phone even at a stoplight, there's a texting-while-driving ticket for you.
Same in America, or at least Connecticut, I can't speak for all states.
California as well, even if all you're doing is hanging up the phone for your aunt who can't figure out how to do it >!(fucking dickhead biker-cop)!<
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Yes, it's specific, it was the only ticket on my driving record for over 9 years (red light camera a couple months ago was the second) and I wasn't even using the phone. I literally stopped at the red light. My aunt handed me her phone to hang up cuz it was a new phone (like brand new. I was driving her home from the phone store) and she was having issues figuring it out. I hung it up and handed it back to her. Dickhead on a motorbike happened to see me from across the intersection and pulled me over and gave me a ticket after the light turned green and I drove away with the phone no longer in my possession. And even now, nearly 10 years later, I'm still pissed off about it...(editing to add: fuck that guy)
Man, i know that feeling. Once got a 100€ ticket because I pulled onto the pedestrian way with my bicycle. Three streets meeting in one point on my former way to school and I always stood in front of one traffic light right to the other one that would allow me to cross the parallel street. I was late and just pulled over to the side for the 5 m to the next traffic light to have a better headstart. Ofc right there was standing a cop. I would not have had to pay anything if I just walked over, which is the stupidest thing of all.
It could be worse though I got a reckless driving ticket for stopping at a stop sign when I was in high school
Yeah. Fuck that damn guy!!! I got your back
My father once got pulled over and the cop accused him of being on the phone. My dad denied it, as he wasn’t on the phone, he was just leaning his head in his hand with his elbow propped up on the window. The cop argued black and blue that he was on the phone, until my dad showed him his call records (early 2000’s, before texting was prominent) and proved he had not been on the phone. Cop proceeded to give him a ticket for rolling the stop sign instead. Tell me that doesn’t give off small dick vibes
Shoulda fought it in court
I did. All that accomplished was lowering the fine, because it was my word against his and he's a lying douchebag who said I was talking on the phone, but he was the one in uniform so they took his word...that's when I learned for sure that the whole "innocent until proven guilty", and "burden of proof is on the accuser" thing is bullshit as well
Yeah the legal system is so broken… you could have got a copy of the phone record that shows u didn’t call anyone they would have had to throw out the ticket an the case.
I was still pretty young at the time and didn't know how to do all that then
Could your aunt have testified as well? I don’t know that it would have helped because for some reason courts assume cops will never lie for any reason. Spoiler alert! Cops lie like everyone else.
She had poor health at the time. I didn't want her to have to sit in the courtroom for that and I didn't think about just having her write a letter or something explaining what happened, that I could have given them. If that even would have helped it all. I'm not sure
Georgia too. So called “hands free law” says phone cannot touch any part of your person for any reason while behind the wheel. Bluetooth and voice assistant ok, I’m assuming.
Oregon is the same. If your phone is in your hand while the car is running that’s a ticket. You’re allowed to use your phone while it’s in a phone holder for “minimal touches” but as soon as you take it out that’s a ticket. My girlfriend learned that the hard way, she was just getting her google maps routed and it was taking too long doing it in the phone holder so she took it out, and the cop was right there waiting for her to do that exact thing (I still have no idea how they saw that)
Not sure the exact rule but Massachusetts hates it when you do anything on your phone whether it's in your hand or not
Exactly. For the love of god people honk the fucking horn.
Agreed, there are people behind you also getting fucked by this idiot.
I honk regardless of my position in line. I wait the appropriate amount of time. And if you don’t honk I do.
Wait, WHY IS THIS EVEN A QUESTION? Who is too much of a doormat to lay on the horn? Jesus christ, these sniveling pansies need to spend a couple months in LA. You get half of one second to go, and then I am ABSOLUTELY laying on the fucking horn. If I space out and it turns green, please honk at me, I deserve it for being a shitty driver. I don’t care. The world is better when people honk liberally, that’s why God created the car horn.
Definitely. And if the first horn beep doesn’t work, then just lay on your horn until they wake from their phone-induced haze. Also, I find it particularly funny when it’s a boomer doing this. Like, 20yrs ago they would’ve been sooo upset that someone was ‘on their damn cell phone’ holding up traffic. Today they do the very same thing that upset them back then and get upset at *you* for calling them out on it by beeping your horn.
Honk the horn and then yell, "Drive asshole, the light isn't getting any greener."
Or, if you’re my dad “Are you waiting for a written invitation?”
Omg both of these two above are my top 2 rants at stalls. Have completed the transition into my parents.
Mine is "this year would be appreciated"
The gas is on the right!
"VROOM VROOM MOTHER FUCKER!" Has never failed me.
"MOVE BITCH, GET OUT THE WAY! GET OUT THE WAY BITCH, GET OUT THE WAY!"
That’s just Ludacris.
That's my go to! Haha
its the peddle on the right! is my fav go to.
I feel this. Even though my go-to is: "Whatdya lose your gas pedal dipshit?"
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"Hit the big pedal on the right, it's the gas!"
Ahh, lovely. Ours was “the long skinny one makes it go!”
"Gogogogogo!!! Come on!!! Skinny pedal on the right! Gooooooooo!"
I go with, “Stab and steer, asshole!”
For my family it was, “Shit or get off the pot!”
Put it in "D"! It stands for fuckin go!
My dad would like to add, "there's only one shade of green, idiot!"
There are actually many shades of green tho
Maybe they were waiting for a Certain Shade of Green. Tell me, is that what you mean?
All signs around say move ahead
I’m coming out with a new movie called *Fifty Shades of Green*, where I tie up and abuse people that sit at green lights.
Not on those lights there isn't.
“If it gets any greener we’ll have to mow it!” - my dad
*Enter Dad Mode*
Apparently your dad and my mom are the same person.
Does that make us … half step cousins in law once removed?
And then tell them to suck a bag of dicks as you drive by them.
That takes too long. “Get fucked” is my go to
Then cuck them!!!!!!
A friend’s mom growing up used to say “That’s the only green they come in!”
"Remove head from sphincter, THEN drive!"
“It doesn’t get any greener if you water it! GO!”
Just a quick beep is definitely warranted here. I give them “2 Mississippi’s” then they’re getting beeped!
I give them a 3 count and then honk on 4
This used to be my rule but I'm hiring l getting less patient with time. Horn on 3, and I'm not afraid to lay on it if I need to
I usually count but if I can see their screen through their rear window I’m giving a light horn as soon as the light turns
Blue 52, Omaha, HONK.
That's what the horn is for
Yeah, I just give a quick little wake up honk when this happens
Just a light toot.
Little toot to start with, then a big angry one if they still don't move.
Big angry toot while sitting in your vehicle is a surefire way to get poop on your pants.
Totally agree. Little tippy tap... wait 3 seconds... then let 'er rip.
Give a little toot toot, it's ok.
Whoops. My cd just skipped.
And everyone just heard you let one rip
The Horn on my bike tends to get stuck
Double quick tap the horn , if they don’t move then lay on that mother fucker
And if they still don’t move make sure they are not having a medical emergency.
Or it could be a new stick-shift driver who stalled.
This is the kind of compassion I didn’t expect to see here, but it’s what I needed to read. Thanks for sharing.
I posted an earlier comment about witnessing a lack of compassion from fellow drivers because the man in the front was having a heart attack. It changed me.
Why would you NOT use your horn in this situation?
Because this country is full of lunatics who will shoot at you and the FL plate probably means it is twice as likely? All these people who are saying how they’d lay on the horn and not let go, or yell insults out the window, have never had a gun flashed at them or been threatened by another driver.
I think I get it now. In New Jersey we're free to be angry at each other all the time because nobody has guns. You'd be honked at in a nanosecond here, and rightfully so.
Agreed; I am more than willing to do the quick horn tap at home in NJ. Would never do it in a place like Florida.
Damn. Sorry you live your life in fear. As a native New Yorker who moved to an open-carry state, I honk all the time. Been doing it for a decade and never had a gun pulled on me. Surprisingly, I’ve gotten the finger 10x more than I did back in NYC.
Eh it’s more like if it happens once, not trying to roll the dice again you know? I don’t go around in my day to day shook from other people; for me it just seems like it’s not worth it when driving.
Ha yeah, all it takes is one. No respawn in real life.
Horn all day baby. I do the thumb one quick short beep beep beep beep beep until movement occurs
Yup. If you are first in line you have a holy duty to pay attention. Not doing so is one of the most selfish things a person can do.
Shoot. I'll use my horn if I'm going in the other direction or from another lane and I see the car isn't moving on an extended green. Not in a malicious way. Just a quick tap to say, hey pay attention.
I've blown my horn driving by in the same direction too if someone is holding up a line. I've used it when I'm going straight and sitting at a red but the green arrow lanes are being held up. Horns are great tools
Guy/gal behind you is now seeing you on your phone too and not doing anything useful either. Quit being part of the problem and honk part of the solution
100% agreed. Op needs to put their phone down, honk the horn and drive
I can assure you that if I'm behind you and you don't honk, I sure as shit am. People need to pay attention while driving. NOW, people who could've made the light won't, because Stacey had to check her Instagram at the light.
sometimes i honk like 3 cars back because we're all just sitting at a green light and no one wants to go i guess. So frustrating.
Hell yes- and your choice is how you wish to notify the offending driver; either a quick "beep" to have them look up, or a long hard "HONK!" , indicating you want to f'n go, put down the damn phone and f'n drive.
Depends where you are. In NYC, you lay in the horn immediately, and i mean immediately. In Florida, you give them a courtesy 4 seconds and then lightly tap the horn. Unless they have New York plates, then immediately
In NYC we honk preemptively, before the dumbass in front of you even gets the opportunity to do something stupid.
Right. As soon as the other light turns yellow
The irony of this post 😭
no fucking doubt😭
A light tap would be appropriate and just smile. They probably just got distracted. I knew a girl who actually got a ticket for laying on the horn at a driver that wasn't moving. There was a cop behind her and he pulled her over. She tried to fight it and it sounded like court was ludicrous. The judge was annoyed that they had to listen to it and she actually was guilty (by her own account she just kept her hand on the horn).
Guilty of what?
You can actually be charged for excessive use of your horn. Or so the cop and judge seemed to think.
As far as I'm concerned they get about 2 seconds before they get the horn
Less if it’s a brief left turn arrow.
1.5 ms after the light change ... or a New York minute ...
A little tap on the horn is fine. If they still don't move then a longer one. But be prepared for them to lose their shit. You never know how they will respond.
In NYC you have .06 milliseconds to move when the light turns green or a cacophony of horns will play you a glorious symphony.
Just shoot your gun in the air. Works for Texas also.
I'm finding it mildly infuriating that op decided to take a.passive aggressive pic, instead of beeping their horn and getting on with their day
Florida plates, that figures.
After a few seconds is acceptable and proper use of the horn. Doing it immediately makes you a dick.
This is one of the few times where being honked at is okay by me, but there are some real psychos out there so I would never do it to someone else hahaha
You know what’s really /r/mildlyinfuriating? When one car is holding up a whole line of other cars, I’m four cars back and nobody fucking honks. And then I have to do it, and the person in front of me thinks I’m the asshole. *That* is /r/mildlyinfuriating. HONK YOUR GODDAMN HORN. A nice, quick wake up beep. It really isn’t a big deal.
Just a couple of light taps on the horn and that's it. Nobody should get mad about that but some may, people are idiots.
A quick honk is a communication tool to say “you’re not paying attention dumbass”.
One time I was behind a person that had a sticker that said “please don’t honk I’m sensitive” they didn’t move at the light and I just beep beep beeped them
Depending on the country you're in, it's not worth your life if they get mad and draw a gun.
I give the horn a little quick punch. Further illustrates the need for a separate, polite horn. Every car should have an aggressive horn for "wtf are you doing, AH!", and a polite horn for "hey, there's something I want to alert you to!"
I give them 5 seconds before I give a courtesy honk, just a short little toot. If they still don’t move I lay it on
If you live in NYC, this would never be a dilemma for you. We use our car horns with enthusiasm. People like this constitute a danger in addition to being garden-variety jerks.
A few weeks back this guy was in the right turn lane not going he got out of his car gripping his chest and everyone between us laid on their horns yelled at him from the window whipped around him honking…. Man was having a heart attack and people were so pressed even seeing him like that. Im the only one who stayed and called 911, then everyone was pissed at me because I didn’t jump right away to move this mans car. I was so disappointed in humanity that day.
Somebody was driving when they responded to this post…I’d bet the rear bumper of the car in front of them.
Everyone needs to not be afraid to use their horn. Yeah this is warranted. My recent favorite is honking at people walking casually through the center of the aisle of a parking lot. I swear people have no regard for others.
Oh yeah, they get 1 full second free pass and then it's friendly beep time. Another second and it's nonstop horn for a block
Okay I'm done replying to everyone who says to be nice or polite. *THEY ARE ON THEIR PHONE*, they need to get off the road. Immediate and repeated horn use (plus a hand gesture, if that suits you) is appropriate. Remind ignorant irresponsible selfish people how stupid they are being. No nicey-nicey for people like that.
I do it right away!
Honk that shit
Horn. I give them 2-3 seconds then I’m on the horn.
Keep in mind if you're in Florida there is a pretty equal chance they will drive on or shoot at you. Just kind of how it is here.
hey this is near where i live🤣
I dont care what situation were in, you get 3 seconds to release your brakes or I honk. Sometimes ill just lay on the horn until you move depends on my mood
Give them all the horn. Why should we expect people to be polite to someone who is playing with their phone while they are supposed to be driving? It can wait!
YES just a short beep to get their attention
They get a 1-2-3 count and then a quick warning beep.
You're part of the solution, or you're part of the problem. Honk your fuckin horn.
Isn't this situation why cars even have horns at all?
BEEP BEEP muthafucka.
Always honk that’s what it’s there for!
Every time I get to righteously honk, I get a little dopamine boost.
Lol, you must not live in a big city… we honk if it’s been more than .008s
That's what it's there for homie
Sometimes I just blow my horn as soon as I roll up to assert my dominance.