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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Do Americans actually do this?

[–] fprawn@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

No, this is mostly a Hollywood thing to indicate that the traffic is real bad and the driver is real mad. The reality is that birds aren’t allowed to drive, and probably wouldn’t even want to.

[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

People honk way less in America than most other countries I've been to

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 5 months ago

Yes, I used to work in a building in downtown SF that was "historic" (old) with windows that actually opened, and every week day starting around 4pm we'd all close the single-pane windows to slightly quiet the irritating honking that was 17 stories below us. It was still audible but a good pair of headphones had a chance of being successful.

All it ever took was one person's honk to start a chain reaction that would go on for hours.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

In most places I've been, no, but I've noticed that they do use the horn more on the east coast