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A New Cure for Congestion?

How did I miss this gem from The Onion?


Tired Of Traffic? A New DOT Report Urges Drivers: ‘Honk’

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  1. Vagabondblogger Says:
    July 20th, 2008 at 11:10 am

    Everyone here in Egypt honks. Different honks symbolize different messages. And, there are rules to honking here, too. It’s a very constructive method of communication amongst cars. Don’t laugh. I don’t drive (for fear I might run someone down), but I walk a lot, and ride a lot. So, I get run off the road by a couple of toots, telling me, “coming through” or maybe “beware” or like a cyclist “on your left”. There is an art to this, and it shouldn’t be dismissed as comical, since many people worldwide use this as a method of driving communication.

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How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

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