You gotta honk. I honk ALL THE TIME now. It’s just enough of a jolt to send a signal to everyone around you that it’s time to snap back to attention. It works marvelously. I don’t like doing it... but it really works. If the light turns green and no one has moved for a few seconds I give a little tiny honk and like clockwork you can see brake lights in every lane turn off and people begin to activate.
I don’t think we can solve this with enforcement. We gotta start thinking outside the box. I have no advice... I wish I did ... but it’s an epidemic. Its a symptom of a much larger issue, I think, so we need to try and treat that instead.
My suggestion would be for people to stop honking out of impatience. If there's an actual issue, honk. Someone not moving as quickly or dangerously as you'd like isn't an excuse to honk.
I have to honk more than a second to get them to realize I'm honking at them. And 9 times out of 10 unless I honk I won't make the light because I'm 2 cars back and the people in front are either not paying attention too, or are too scared to honk. The worst are left green arrow snoozers.
Tie horn honking to a credit card in the car. $1 per second honked. A quick road runner meep-meep cost 20¢. Holding down your horn like a dipshit for 30sec is a bit expensive.
The only thing you do by honking your horn at a car in a lane they're taking up is 1) they move if they're not there for a reason or need to be there, or 2) being briefly annoying to the driver, if they're even in the car, which the driver will promptly forget. If you know the laws and see a car breaking a law, then call the police and tell them someone is breaking the law, since it's their responsibility and not yours to police.
In India it's somehow considered a safty measure to just honk all the time. You'd see big trucks with stickers "please honk" on their rear-bumper, sepposedly they won't know you're there otherwise.
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