Honking at someone when the light turns green is no longer rude because he is probably on his phone

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Dependent on the length of the horn blast, however

The only polite way is to lay on the horn non-stop while following them to their destination (so they know you're there), when they stop, get out, approach them as quickly as possible (to be respectful of their time) to thank them for going

This is generally accepted in any situation and is loved by many drivers.

Yup. A quick tap of the horn or double tap is fine. Even a 1 second blast. Once we get into 2 seconds blast territory, it transitions to rude, with 3+ seconds going up linearly on the deranged jackass scale

It's the difference of saying hey and HHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYY! @#$@!#$!@@$@#$!

If said this for years, cars need a secondary polite horn

What about a third, really aggressive horn that's just a train horn?

Install a compressor, tank, and train horn all off instragram

Sadly horn volume is regulated with the intention of preventing things like loud air horns from being used on personal vehicles.

I saw some video of an infuriatingly positive and giggly guy mod his horn this way. To add insult to injury iirc (which is about 50/50 after so many years) he used an arduino to do it. Video got a gazillion likes and many supporting comments. It unexpectadly became the last straw before deleting my facebook account.

I know… I’m no fun.

A solid 10 second blast and a flash of your gun to let em know no funny business.

Ya know, sane stuff