'Honk more, wait more': Mumbai tests traffic lights that reward the patient driver

Trial resets traffic lights to red when the noise from car horns goes beyond 85 decibels

There is a truth universally acknowledged by drivers in India: honk your horn loud enough and the traffic lights will surely change to green.

But, fed up of impatient drivers inflicting a deafening roar every time they are forced to stop, police in Mumbai have come up with a new system to punish those who cannot wait at traffic lights in silence.

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