To sound my horn when I get cut up on the road?

[huddlelikepenguins]

Interested to hear when you feel it necessary to sound your horn, as I seem to be using it increasingly frequently

I once heard there are 3 levels of road rage:

1. Sound your horn when someone cuts you up and you sound your horn to prevent an accident or warn someone that it was dangerous
   

1. Sound your horn when you have to brake sharply (is scary and wastes petrol)
   

1. Sound your horn when you have to brake at all (slows you down and wastes petrol if you keep having to do this)
   

I'm definitely at level 2!

[SirChenjin]

I've been driving for 25 years and use my horn whenever I feel that the knobhead needs reminding that his/her driving skills are not up to scratch. I see it is my civic duty to inform them that a)they are indeed a knobhead and b)they need more driving lessons.

[crashdoll]

I see it as my civic duty to tell you that beeping when not needed is actually a hazaard.

[SirChenjin]

I see it as my civic duty to tell you that knobheads cutting people up, tailgating, speeding through residential streets, pulling out in front of other drivers at junctions etc etc etc etc present far, far more of a hazard than the honking of a horn.

[TraineeBabyCatcher]

The only time I have actually responded quick enough and with enough gusto to actually make the horn make a noise was when I was in the slow lane on the motorway and an overtaking lorry started pulling in before completely passing me, it was blood scarey as I ended up being forced into the hard shoulder before he registered I was there. He definitely deserved the horn!

[mateinthree]

Using your horn is all well and good if you are certain you know the rules of the road and are sticking to them, however many people definition of being cut up is when they race to block somebody from changing lanes or merging in turn and don't make it in time. Beeping your horn in that scenario just proves what a twat you are.

[TraineeBabyCatcher]

It was bloody scarey aswell.

[moonabove]

Notgoodnotbad - do you mean you passed the cyclist and then got held up and then turned left knowing she was still coming up?

[CointreauVersial]

Well, it's not correct use of the horn, but when some arse has just tried to push you off the road it is mighty tempting (indeed, therapeutic) to give them a good blast.

[moonabove]

Beeping at cyclists or pedestrians is really out of order.

[crashdoll]

"Using your horn is all well and good if you are certain you know the rules of the road."

Yes exactly! I recently took refresher driving lessons and I can't tell you the number of times I was honked when the honker was in the wrong lane on a busy roundabout near me. My driving instructor is a potty mouth and had some choice words for those sorts of people.

[huddlelikepenguins]

I am one of the more cautious drivers on the road and feel it is my civic duty to let drivers know when they are acting like twats

I enjoy leaving lots of space between the car in front, to save petrol and to enable me to see hazards ahead so I can brake gently. I don't enjoy cars taking advantage of this to dangerously tailgate me or cut me up on junctions.

[Blindingobvs]

Is it a PARP noise or a BEEEEEEEP noise? Some horns sound DDDDDEEEERRRRR which is a really annoying sound. OP, what noise does yoour horn make?

[Blindingobvs]

PAH HEE HA HURRRRRR

[alemci]

I hate it when people can't be bothered to get out of their cars and beep the horn rather than ringing the bell of a house when doing a pick up especially late at night.

I try to be courteous to people when driving and cut them some slack. we all make mistakes. I hate it when people hassle you to say turn right in traffic when it is not safe to go - would they rather you have an accident?

[TheMNeffect]

My DM says that if they have time to beep, they have time to stop . I don't generally beep my horn in annoyance though, maybe on the very odd occasion.

[saintmerryweather]

I use my horn if i feel i need to. i was on a dual carriageway goi.g up a slight hill, overtaking another car, road in front completely clear and he decided to pull into my lane and started drifting over. i was just about level with him.so i put my foot down and blasted the horn at him (hand down flat for a good few seconds) but he kept coming. I ended up waay over the rumble strip while he still tried to get in my lane. Fucking idiot eventually got the hint and got back in his own feckinh lane

[ivykaty44]

I very rarely sound my horn and only ever to stop someone driving into me - or someone else.

[huddlelikepenguins]

My horn is definitely a girly BEEEEP. I wish it was more macho. Then I could compete with the horrid men who tailgate me and try and force me to go when it's not safe to do so. And that awful tart who flipped me the bird when she cut me up as I was coming from the right on a roundabout, and then proceeded to block the entire turn-off!

[whats4teamum]

My DH hit his horn at someone who pulled in front of him on a roundabout without a sideways glance. Unfortunately the horn stayed on for about a mile down a busy road with all and sundry turning to see who the arsehole with his hand stuck on the horn was. Mortified I slid into the footwell as DH kept smacking stupid horn to try and free it.

I love a good toot normally but that was so embarrassing.

[GoSuckEggs]

I beep almost every time i go out in the car

[tallulah]

We moved from a town in the SE where everyone uses their horn for everything, to a city in the SW where nobody local ever uses the horn. Driving is so much less stressful. I think I've only used it once in the 3+ years we've been here and that was at someone trying to change lanes alongside me who didn't seem to have noticed I was already there.

Mind you I do see red when the idiot in front won't keep up with the traffic and has to brake a mile before the traffic lights, so I'm not surprised you are having problems OP. I was taught to watch the car in front of the one you are behind, so you have time to react. When the one in front of you brakes too early and hangs back it is very difficult to see what is going on ahead. (and if everyone did it the poor sod 5th in the queue would never move).

[Nerfmother]

I used mine again today. I live in one way system hell (maidstone) and there's one bit where the left hand lane has to go straight on after the lights and the right hand lane can go either middle or right. Every blardy time someone beeps me as they veer into me from the left. And they never realise they are in the wrong.
And breathe.

[FreudiansSlipper]

I have done it quite a few time by accident leaning on the wheel when stuck in traffic

I do often when driving in central London especially around hyde park corner english reserve goes out of the window

[NuhichNuhaymuh]

I'm not sure what my horn sounds like!!!

Please tell me how 2 & 3 horn soundings waste petrol, I feel like dunce as no one else has asked so everone knows thw obvious answer to the question

[Beaverfeaver]

I beep the horn if I am going around a blind corner on a road only big enough for 1 car, just in case there is another comeing around the bend.

Saved my metal a few times

What really grind my gears is when a passenger gets irate and beeps my horn for me!!!! That's my horn! I am in the driving seat!! If I want to beep I would have done!!! Aaarrrrggghhhh!!!!!!!