Livery cab drivers should pay $1 for every time they are creeping for people on the street. Hollerin' at me like I'm a hooker except they make me pay them $30 to get to Manhattan.

Cars should have a computer that "allows" 5 honks per day. I think I honk my horn maybe twice a month, if someone is coming into my lane or about to pull in front of me. Once you honk 5x the horn shuts down for 24 hours. No one needs to honk that much.

In Brooklyn, the insta-second the light turns green the dick behind you will honk. Even if you are moving. Even if you wait one second. No matter what. Green. HONK. Ass. Holes.

That is the most I have ever typed the word honk. HONK!

i don't understand why people don't just use the wink. flash your high beams a few times during non hazardous times. it's not loud and usually gets the other driver's attention.

What about people who drive with their high beams on all the time? What are they supposed to do?

Exterminate with extreme prejudice. Especially if they have those blue headlights.

I have the urge to slam on my brakes and let them rear end me.

Yeah but then you'd end up in a wheelchair screaming, "I SHOWED 'EM!"

That's a very interesting point. I didn't know about the "wink".

I have a contrary view. I've always construed flashing high beams as being rude. I reason that, if you are impatient, that's what the horn is for. A simple, quick tap of the horn, if you are both impatient and polite.

I only flash my high beams to alert an oncoming driver that his lights are off, or if he mistakenly has his high beams on.

I also think of the high-beam flash as rude, like "Get out of my way!" Although I will flash to let drivers coming towards me know there is a hazard like a deer on the side of the road or something they should slow down for. It's rare though.

It isn't rude if the driver being flashed is in the passing lane, is not passing anyone, and is blocking other drivers from passing on the left. Drive in the right lane and pass in the left lane. The same concept goes for walking on the sidewalk, stairs, and riding the escalator.

Yeah, sorry, this has nothing to do with Twitter. Long before Twitter, the incessant honking led me to devise in my mind a contraption to be manditorily installed on all cars (at least taxi cabs) in nyc, which would administer a small electric shock to the driver whenever the horn was used. Drivers would still be able to use the horn, in case of "emergency," but they'd think twice before honking out of frustration or boredom. Sort of like an anti-bark collar people put on their dogs? Ideally the electrocution would be commensurate with the pain one feels, as a pedestrian, when a car horn goes off 10 feet from your head. Bloomberg could totally push that one through, right?

This would be a great way to address the city's budget problems too! Start handing out $350 tickets to some of these honkers. I would think any additional police presence would more than pay for itself.

After reading most of the above posts I gather that unless you are driving along and need to warn people of their impending doom whilst they are jaywalking in rush hour traffic, there is never a good reason for you to use your car horn?! You can tell most posters don't own cars.

I have read some good posts above, and yes plenty of driving fools not only honk as soon as the light turns green, but they will also honk if you are slowing down in front of them as the yellow turns to red. Yes, there are loads of irritating drivers out there, but what has not been mentioned are good reasons for using ones horn while not moving. Yes, we are living in a technological age, and that has really made it that much easier to become a horrible driver. Trying to fiddle with cell phones, GPS's, iGarbage, Kindles, etc. means that your horn has become your only way to wake up the technodrone in the hybrid in front of you.

Ok, maybe that was a bit harsh. It could be any friggin' kind of car!

I have never seen a bad driver in a hybrid. 99.9% of the time, it's some elementary school drop-out in a massive SUV or a minivan.

Do you realize that there are plenty of Hybrid SUV's on the road today? I believe they hit the streets in 2004.
FYI SUV Hybrids are usually the most expensive tier of their respective model lines, Ipso facto, I doubt that it is almost always some elementary school drop-out that is driving those massive SUV's horribly, as you put it. hth

Oh, yeah, that's right. This was brought to my attention a while ago when I heard a comedian make the following joke: "A woman told me that she and her husband bought a hybrid SUV because she's an environmentalist and he's an absolute douchebag". Sums it up pretty perfectly. Hybrid SUVs are laughable, as are the dipshits who drive them.

HEY, some people in NYC need those SUVs to navigate the rough terrain, mountainous regions and dusty trails. Actually, they almost always swerve to avoid the smallest bumps or holes in the road and it's like, you have this Big Tuff Truck and you cannot go over a tiny bump? Wimp.

Ha! Exactly.

The SUV inferiority complex has been documented. The moment they came out, I knew they were bad news.

Unless I mis-read, you didn't give an example of when it would be appropriate to honk while in a non-moving car.