Zip it! Mumbai holds a no-honking day {Autoblog}

Apr 9th 2008 10:23AM I don't see this working. I'm an American living in Hong Kong and I travel to India frequently. Because the traffic really doesn't observe lanes (and lane markings are often missing anyway) the horn is used a rich form of communication that westerners don't typically understand. The style of the beep means everything from "Pardon me" to "Please be careful - I'm in your blind spot" to "Coming through!" to "Hey you flipping idiot, I'm on the edge of vehicular homicide." In India you cannot drive without the horn. It's a required driving aid.