{"id":21882,"date":"2020-02-11T10:52:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T09:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=21882"},"modified":"2020-02-11T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T09:52:26","slug":"patience-is-a-virtue-in-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=21882","title":{"rendered":"Patience is a virtue in Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-Post-Thumb wp-image-21884\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sportscar-64x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sportscar-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sportscar-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sportscar.png 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/>Ever been impatient at red traffic lights? Well, in<br \/>\nMumbai you&#8217;d better not have a short tamper and<br \/>\nstart using your horn extensively. In Mumbai there<br \/>\nare traffic lights that measure the loudness.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->If the loudness goes beyond a certain level, the traffic light resets the green phase counter and you have to start over with waiting.<\/p>\n<p>This is an initiative to lower the loudness on certain roads caused by extensive usage of car horns.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to sensitize drivers to the fact that excessive honking is a massive noise nuisance and does not really help.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the modified traffic lights in action and the drivers&#8217; reactions:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-21882-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/The-Punishing-Signal-in-collaboration-with-Mumbai-Police-HonkResponsibly.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/The-Punishing-Signal-in-collaboration-with-Mumbai-Police-HonkResponsibly.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/The-Punishing-Signal-in-collaboration-with-Mumbai-Police-HonkResponsibly.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>You honk more? You wait more! &#8211; The message is clear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever been impatient at red traffic lights? Well, in Mumbai you&#8217;d better not have a short tamper and start using your horn extensively. In Mumbai there are traffic lights that measure the loudness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,767,3846,2949,19,150],"tags":[4392,4390,4393,1131,4391,3662,1149,4389],"class_list":["post-21882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-fun-2","category-people","category-technology","category-thoughts-2","category-video","tag-educational","tag-honking","tag-mumbai","tag-noise","tag-punishment","tag-reduction","tag-tamper","tag-trafic-light"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}