The $350 Honk

In New York City, horn-blowing has been an increasingly large problem. Everyone who has ever been to any city, let alone New York, knows that the amount of car horns that you hear is quite unecessary. It has become a way of expressing anger, instead of being used as a warning or alarm to other drivers. One taxi driver in New York City got so fed up with the amount of honking that he sent out a text to 13,000 New York City taxi drivers to "lay off the horn." It appears to be a good idea, but other drivers have fired back saying that it is very hard to drive a taxi for 10 hours a day in one of the busiest cities in the world without using some sort of horn to get attention from others around them. The $350 Honk refers to a law that was passed that charges drivers $350 for unnecessary honking. However, while this law seems to be a good idea, it really has no way of being enforced.

The author of this source seems to show no sort of bias or anything of the sort in this article. He simply provides the facts and a few examples of what has been done to try to eliminate the use of unnecessary honking in the city. He uses first-hand reports from drivers to show how angering it can be to drive in the city, both when having to honk and when being honked at. There are obviously some times when a honk can be used, but the author explains how there are many examples of people honking for other reasons, and uses the anger from New York City drivers to truly drive his point home.