AUDIO: NASA ENGINEER TRIES TO MAKE A COURTESY HONK A THING
Former NASA engineer and Mark Rober has created what he thinks is a polite car horn. In a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=274&v=lv8wqnk_TsA), Rober says the standard car horn is very one-dimensional and doesn’t give other drivers context as to why you’re honking at them. Usually, you just want to alert them that the light has changed, or that you are behind them when they are trying to back out of a parking space. In those cases, you don’t need a heavy-duty horn, you need something more like this. (Play CLIP below). Rober hopes his polite horn will become a part of cars in the future.
* “Look out, it’s a kid on a Schwinn!!!”
* “Where’s the baby Roadrunner?”
* Doesn’t this guy know it’s not nice to toot your own horn?
* I feel like if you have this horn, and you park your car in a parking lot, you’ll come back to find your car has been beaten up by all the other cars.
* Start with New York City. I’m sure drivers there will be very receptive to a polite car horn.
* Come to think of it, politeness and gentility are sweeping the country these days.
* Take it on Shark Tank. Dare ya.
* I think we know why Mark Rober is now a former NASA engineer.
CLIP: Mark Rober’s polite car horn.
CLIP: I like to use this horn when I’m driving behind a deisel truck.
