Drivers Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Toot Car Horns Unless It’s a Case of Emergency

Introduction of Tooting

The online Oxford Dictionaries describes a toot as a terse, shrill clank that emanates from a horn of a car. The fact that it is short and sharp shows that it is the kind of noise that would be produced suddenly especially in reaction to shock or in case of an emergency. On the contrary, many drivers are accustomed to tooting the first chance they get, an act that has watered down the original purpose for which tooting is required. Tooting is detractive and creates pollution and should be discouraged unless in cases of crises.

Distraction of Tooting Drivers

As a distractive force, every time a driver toots, everyone in the vicinity will automatically jolt up to see what is going on, irrespective of whether one is also driving or just by standing. These sudden movements consequentially force the other parties to momentarily lose focus of whatever they were doing. In this event, many drivers are bound to cause accidents while the by standers who lose their guard in the process may also wade onto the roadsubconsciously with catastrophic results.

In the same way as texting while driving, tooting reduces a driver’s mastery of their car as their attention is divided between the steering wheel and the honking pad. This further weighs down on the detractive nature of the tooting drivers and often leads to altercation or accidents especially at the traffic lights turn. It is for this menace that many governments around the world enact anti-hooting laws with heavy penalties to deter would be tooters unless the situation really warrants in which case it is a matter of life and death.

Moral Responsibility

Moreover, tooting is not morally acceptable in many quarters especially the residential areas and so the more reas...

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...ich the horns have been developed and therefore in the event that the horn is used for unnecessary purpose like acknowledging other road users, it ceases to be useful and becomes a menace for which many people around the world have had to endure for too long. There is need to develop stringer legislations that will curb offending drivers to help reduce the noise problem while aiding in improving concentration on the roads and eventual wellbeing for everyone. It is against this backdrop that I support the fact that drivers shouldn’t be allowed to toot horns unless it is a case of emergency

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