Comments | fingersmaloy: The Car Horn: My Least Favorite Household Invention

fingersmaloy

The Car Horn: My Least Favorite Household Invention

Feb 20, 2011 21:11

The problem with the common American car horn, by which I mean every car horn, is that it simply isn't expressive enough, and yet it's every single driver's go-to method for on-the-road communication. Really, when you sound your car horn, what you're doing is shouting to the surrounding crowd, "BLARRRRR!" and I think it's important to bear in mind ( Read more... )

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Car Horn anonymous February 21 2011, 17:07:34 UTC

Your admittedly abbreviated list of car horn messages left off the one that (for me, at least) is the most-often needed message: "Oops! (I bumped the darn thing again)".

I don't have a solution, but it seems to me that the geniuses who invented the ability to have different ringtones for the phone could do the same for the car -- at least, to enable us to distinguish between a threatening situation (think Theme from Jaws), an angry blast, a friendly "Howdy" and an "Oops!"
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I had a situation just last weekend when, while stopped for a nonosecond at a red light before turning right, I got blasted. By the time I reached my destination I was totally fuming about the !@# who was so impatient. Then, of course, my darling SIL asked me if I heard her toot when she was driving behind me. Wasted fury!
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BTW, I just "got" the reference in your last post to "Alone again, naturally". Delightfully obscure!
-Amomymous

Re: Car Horn fingersmaloy February 21 2011, 20:57:44 UTC

Hahahaha, the theme from Jaws. Yeah, maybe having a selection of presets would be good.

Thanks for getting the reference!

Alone again anonymous February 21 2011, 23:28:12 UTC

Yeah, but it ruined my day. Spent the rest of the day, 'til sundown, with that song playing incessantly in my head. Then I made the mistake of telling Dad of my problem, and he had a quick cure for me.

Now, it's "Flintstones, we're the Flintstones, have a yabbadabba..."

Guess Bruce didn't like the Jaws solution, eh? But it sounds like you have a potential invention in all this...
Amomymous

lordbuggleton February 21 2011, 18:29:18 UTC

Thats an interesting idea ( ... )

goat_ninja February 22 2011, 02:32:39 UTC

>the best way to implement that kind of thing would be to take the steering wheel you've already got, and add the emotive horn sounds around the outside of the main horn part

Sounds kinda like this:

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fingersmaloy February 22 2011, 16:49:49 UTC

Maybe this is all we really need.

Test, just a try out anonymous March 1 2011, 14:46:57 UTC

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