When you see they are about to do something stupid. Not after since that can cause even more damage. Imagine someone about to enter a larger road from a side road. They don´t look careful enough and enter it while there are still cars close to them and you have to break hard. You can´t alter their action (make them dissapear from the road again) so you honk to show your dissatisfaction with them. But you don´t know how they will react. What if they panic and hit their own breaks instead of accelerating? Then you honking would have caused more problems.
Of course if you can´t avoid hitting them use your horn because it might make them see you and accelerate/go to one of the sides. But if accidents can be avoided with other means don´t use the horn.
anders you must be psychic, you can't always antipate that someone is going do something stupid
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Originally posted by Anders
When you see they are about to do something stupid. Not after since that can cause even more damage. Imagine someone about to enter a larger road from a side road. They don´t look careful enough and enter it while there are still cars close to them and you have to break hard. You can´t alter their action (make them dissapear from the road again) so you honk to show your dissatisfaction with them. But you don´t know how they will react. What if they panic and hit their own breaks instead of accelerating? Then you honking would have caused more problems.
Of course if you can´t avoid hitting them use your horn because it might make them see you and accelerate/go to one of the sides. But if accidents can be avoided with other means don´t use the horn.
anders you must be psychic, you can't always antipate that someone is going do something stupid