Thursday, March 07, 2024
Honking from frustration at some moron how blocks traffic.... has no effect on getting them to move, but, annoys EVERYONE else around. So, someone in India devised a science experiment to reduce honking. It worked.
In 2013, behavioral scientists Anand Damani and Mayur Tekchandaney invented a device called Bleep that would make an annoying beeping noise inside the car every time a driver honked. To stop the beeping, drivers had to press a red button with a frowny face on it. “A little bit of medicine back to the driver,” Damani said in a TED Talk. They tested the device on drivers in Mumbai for six months and when Damani presented the results — no accidents and a 61 percent reduction in honking — the audience cheered.
Well, better than the first idea they tried in India, with red lights not changing to green if people kept honking. Which invariably some idiot always did, so they had to abandon that idea.
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