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Did you know that Skoda tests their car horns 150,000 times for the European car market, but for the Indian market, they ramp it up to an impressive 500,000 times? 🚗📢 It turns out that the increased use of car horns in India has led to this intensive testing process. 🇮🇳 One study even found that a horn sounds every three seconds at major intersections in Indian cities. That’s a lot of honking! 🚦📣
This just goes to show how crucial it is for car manufacturers to tailor their products to the specific needs and habits of different markets. The next time you honk your car horn, just remember that it has undergone extensive testing to make sure it meets the demands of the road. 🚘🔊 #HonkResponsibly
Source: https://www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/skoda-world/beep-beep/
It is one of the most annoying things about India. Cannot get away from the honking
There are some parts of the world where people honk at red fucking lights. It’s insane. People see the horn as an extension of their emotions and they blow them freely.
I’m imagining the Seymour Skinner meme. Could an infrastructure built around facilitating cars be the problem?
No, it’s the Indians that are the problem.
Did you just lesson to that episode of No Such Thing as a Fish as well?
I have owned my car for 2.5 years and I have used my horn a grand total of zero times.
I’ll often see people really lay into their horns to express anger or displeasure, but outside of catharsis, I have never really seen the benefit.
I would happily use the horn preemptively if I thought that another driver needs to be made aware of my position in order to avoid a collision, but I’m not going to beep at every wanker who cuts me off or I’d never stop beeping.
I don’t know the story in India, but when I was visiting Peru I noticed tons of uncontrolled intersections.
Domestically every intersection has some sort of traffic control. When I was in Peru (awhile ago) it wasn’t uncommon to find crossing streets where neither had a stop sign. People would slow down and honk to warn other traffic and roll through.
This could be the factor here rather than something cultural as seems to be implied.
I’m from Sweden.
I remember hearing a car horn two weeks ago, or maybe it was three.
In China it is customary to honk before every intersection. Especially loud in a parking garage. (Although it is discouraged).
The only thing that makes me want to hit it is people taking 5-10 seconds at a green light to start driving , and even then I usually have someone behind me to honk for me anyway. I think I’ve used a horn once a month in the past year at most
I’ve spent several months in India. I really doubt this story. Three seconds sound highly exaggerated, more like there times a second.
Lol people in Ottawa are trigggerrrred
Number of pro miles logged:
4,000,000+
Number of times I’ve honked:
0
I also listen to podcasts
You can’t shove that many people into that small of space and expect them not to act out
I wish Skoda was sold in North America. My understanding is Volkswagen, which owns Skoda, won’t allow them to be sold here because their price point is far below VW’s, but the quality is exactly the same (they are essentially Volkswagen cars sold with the Skoda nameplate), and that would cripple VW sales in the US.
Just make it as loud in the inside as it is on the outside.
*One study carried out … found that a horn sounds every three seconds*
Unfortunately, even putting aside the inconclusiveness of **one** study, and how little is known about it, it’s methodology,other factors that were (or were not) considered, like time of day, socioeconomic character of cities or neighbourhoods, and many other potentially relevant things – it’s not even clear whether it was the same driver honking every 3 sec. – which sounds like a symptom, or the sound was heard 20 times per minute
I use my horn to honk at rude people in traffic when they swerve in front of you with no warning causing you to almost crash, or if they are on their phone stopped on a green light. Other than that horn is never used.
I was in India and the taxi driver honked his horn at a pothole
I reckon I could count on one hand the number of times I’ve used my car horn in the last 15 years
I was in India on a business trip for a week once and after 5 days of having a driver (you definitely don’t want to drive there) honking the horn every 5 seconds I asked him if he could please stop honking and he looked at me like I was crazy.
Same with Vietnam. Constant honking. All of the time.
In semiconductors we call it “binning”
Also didn’t read lol
Anyone got the link to the experiment where they tried implementing a system at red lights to reduce honking? They rigged up a microphone, and the light would only change when the decibels stay low for a while.
If I recall, the lovely people of India destroyed the device.
They have a special attachment so you can hold a button in your hand to make it easier to repeatedly sound the horn.
Every 3 seconds is an underestimate.
During my first ever trip to Manhattan, I got a ride in an Uber and the driver, who hailed from somewhere between 15 and 45 degrees of East longitude, immediately started with the horn and honked an average of 6 to 10 times a minute.
We started chatting, and he asked me where I was coming from and I told him Southern California, and this being the early Uber days he asked me if the service was popular there and if a driver could make good money.
I told him yes to both, but warned him jokingly that all this honking would likely get him shot over there and he seemed honestly surprised that non-stop car honking was not a socially acceptable practice outside of NYC.
Honking in India is like echo location. It helps every traffic participant understand where everyone else is moving. Once you adapt, the chaos is calming like the ocean and you’ll navigate with confidence.
As an Indian, a lot of the honking is basically to tell people that you’re there, because *no one* uses their mirrors. Absolutely no one. If I want to overtake someone, I have to beep before I do that, so they don’t suddenly swerve in front of me while I’m trying to pass them. If I want to drive on the left lane, parked vehicles will be unparked without the slightest care, and I have to honk to make sure they know I’m coming through or I’ll get whacked.
The rest of the honking is basically just swearing at people jumping out in front of you or almost running into you because they don’t look at their mirrors.