If you walk a lot like me, you've probably have had this happen to you. You're walking on the sidewalk minding your own business and you hear the light tap of a car horn, not a blaring "get out of the way" horn but "hey, look over here" horn and you look over to see a taxi cab. As you probably have guessed, the driver is trying to aee if you need a taxi which is pretty retarded because if you needed a taxi, you would've flagged one down or called for one. I notice this more in big cities like Chicago or Seattle, especially in the downtown areas. And if you're toting a suitcase or other baggage, you'll have taxis honking all day long.
I have even started to notice this practice with ride share drivers which is against policy to solicit rides outside of the app.
For me, this is quite annoying. It's startling for one and it's just plain annoying when I'm trying to enjoy my walk and get honked at. For pedestrians, being honked at is viewed as fairly aggressive so it's not unusual for me to be pretty ticked off when people honk at me. It's usually to get me out of the way even though I as a pedestrian have the right away in almost 99% of instances. Really, unless I'm jaywalking, I have right of way!
So long rant short, if you're a taxi or ride share driver, don't honk at pederstians. I'm guessing 99% of the time, people flip you off because as I mentioned if we wanted a taxi in the first place, we know how to get one!
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