Hooting as you go round corners - outside our house

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We live on a remote country lane and there is a blindish corner outside our house. People quite often hoot as they go round the corner - and it irritates me. I genuinely don't understand why people hoot when they go round corners. There are often kids on ponies riding along this lane - hooting doesn't make any difference as to whether they're there or not. They're not going to have time to move. You also get the occasional loose sheep etc too. Basically, AIBU to be pissed off about people hooting at this corner (I think it's antisocial twattery to hoot outside a house too, but we are behind a hedge so it's possible eg delivery drivers don't realise the house is here).

I beep ahead of blind corners. I slow down too.

When it's a very narrow lane, with high hedges, I usually drive slowly with my window down to listen for approaching vehicles, but I still give a short toot on approaching a blind bend, just to alert on coming vehicles.
Listening for cars doesn't really work for electric cars though....

I frequently cross a similar single-track hump-backed bridge with zero visibility (less than a car's length on the brow). Nobody hoots. It's a quiet-ish road, so I encounter another car on about one in three crossings. Everybody slows down, and one will reverse a few yards and give way. For example if there's a tractor and a car, the car will give way.

I live semi rural and toot as well as slowing down.

Not to tell people to get out my way, but to inform them of my presence because if I cannot see around the corner, presumably they cannot see me either.

It’s good practice.

As others have said - you can see lights in the dark so no issue then.

There should be greater use of street mirrors IMO.

For the reasons the poster quoted.

There would be constant beeping, driving us all mad.

There are far more cars on the roads than there used to be.

In addition, if people have their windows up and their music on, THEY WON'T HEAR YOU BEEPING ANYWAY! Thus your sense of security that you have warned oncoming drivers would be fatally misplaced....

Beeping doesn't work. Everyone approaching a blind bend as if there is a stray cow, a child on a bicycle or a massive combine harvester on the other side of it does, however.

There aren't any roads without blind corners round here.

It’s to let other road users aware of your oncoming presence, especially if it’s a narrow road.

It’s in the Highway Code.

This is actually the most useful post on this thread because it reminds us that AI SEARCH ANSWERS ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED.

The Google AI answer tells you not to sound the horn, but had you Googled the actual Highway Code you would read that you should sound your horn.

Please remember that your human ability to sift information is better than AI. It is worse than regular search because it often comes up with the wrong answers

The lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got his boots on.

I’m presuming they specifically mentioned horses in their search.

It is not 'in the Highway Code' as such. The specific advice on blind bends in the Highway Code is to be prepared, reduce your speed and be able to stop in the distance you can see. It does not say sound your horn.

Two vehicles observing the above rules would safely pass on a blind bend without the use of their horns. However, dangerous driving is routine on UK country roads. For that reason, Rule 147 implies that drivers can use Rule 112 and sound their horn to warn of their presence.

People should be slowing right down AND hooting to let other road users know they are there.

I honk.

Here it's called 'bibbing'.

Bibbing! <Shakes head incredulously>

Wait til you hear what we call rolls!

out of interest, what did you think the car horn was for?

As in bread rolls? Oh I am familiar with all sorts of alternatives already. Buns, baps, barms, stotties...

Safer really to refer to them as context sensitive bakery items. Gets you a funny look in the bakers though.

If someone cuts me up, I'll give them a blast.

If i see my friend walking down the street, I'll give them a beep.

I have heard someone refer to parping at someone but that just sounds more ridiculous than hooting, tooting or honking.

I think it was Enid Blyton's Noddy who parp-parped in his 'little car'.

Reminds me of a Viz character from years ago.

It took me an embarrassingly long time to realise you meant that people were beeping car horns rather than doing owl impressions

I thought this too! Never heard “hooting” as a term for your car horn, always beep or honk.

Don't be so daft. The horn isn't for beeping friends. Honestly.
And if a twat cuts you up it's probably yoo late to let them know of your presence. No point getting arsey about it once it's done.

Thanks Mum. I was demonstrating the words I would use instead of "sounding my horn".

Don't worry, I'm not cruising the streets hooting/tooting/bibbing/beeping/blaring/blasting everyone I see.