Mumbai tests traffic signal that resets red light phase when horns honk

[wanderer2575]

Mumbai police have come up with a new system to punish those who cannot wait at traffic lights in silence:  They installed "the punishing signal," a rigged traffic light system intended to tackle the problem of "reckless honkers"  by resetting the red traffic signal every time the sound of car horns goes above 85 decibels.  For particularly honk-happy drivers, it could mean a very long wait at the lights.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/05/honk-more-wait-more-mumbai-tests-traffic-lights-that-reward-the-patient-driver

I just wonder:  If half the drivers wait patiently and half the drivers lean on their horns, it could trigger the mother of all road rage incidents.  What could possibly go wrong?

[NE2]

Sounds fun to troll from a nearby parking lot.

[jeffandnicole]

So if I have a green light, I can blow my horn while going thru the intersection just to piss off the cross street?

[roadman]

So if I have a green light, I can blow my horn while going thru the intersection just to piss off the cross street?

I suspect the sensors would be directional.  So that strategy probably wouldn't work.

[Amtrakprod]

What a cool idea


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[kylebnjmnross]

This is a deeply flawed idea. If someone isn't paying attention or is maybe even literally asleep, you have to honk or else nobody is going anywhere. You don't have to be a dick about it, but you have to get things moving somehow.

[ilpt4u]

This is a deeply flawed idea. If someone isn't paying attention or is maybe even literally asleep, you have to honk or else nobody is going anywhere. You don't have to be a dick about it, but you have to get things moving somehow.

You can always give the car in front of you a little nudge to the bumper instead of hammering the horn...

[kylebnjmnross]

This is a deeply flawed idea. If someone isn't paying attention or is maybe even literally asleep, you have to honk or else nobody is going anywhere. You don't have to be a dick about it, but you have to get things moving somehow.

You can always give the car in front of you a little nudge to the bumper instead of hammering the horn...

True 

[1995hoo]

This is a deeply flawed idea. If someone isn't paying attention or is maybe even literally asleep, you have to honk or else nobody is going anywhere. You don't have to be a dick about it, but you have to get things moving somehow.

I agree with you, although I'm constantly astonished by how many people DON'T honk, not even a beep of the horn. They just sit there obediently. Maybe they're not paying any attention either. I'll be the fifth person back on line at a light and I'll be the only one who honks. (Then you have the people who get "offended" that you honked. If you moved on green, or even shortly after the green, I wouldn't have honked!)