[HN Gopher] A Claxonomy of Mexico City's Traffic
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A Claxonomy of Mexico City's Traffic
Author : tintinnabula
Score : 41 points
Date : 2023-12-27 20:09 UTC (1 days ago)
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| marstall wrote:
| this is genius! loved listening to all the different horn sounds
| - all of which i implicitly understood the meaning of, but have
| never given words to them.
| 29athrowaway wrote:
| Recommended link
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| https://pudding.cool/2022/09/cdmx/
| wisemang wrote:
| Someone also made a somewhat ridiculous track from the
| appliance collector recording:
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| https://youtu.be/yitoITlNcKs
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| Was hearing that recording (not the above track) all over when
| visiting CDMX a few years back
| resolutebat wrote:
| One noteworthy omission: if you tap the seven notes of "Shave and
| a Haircut" (dit diddyditdit, dit dit) on your horn, it supposedly
| means "chinga tu madre, cabron" (fuck your mother, asshole) in
| Mexico.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shave_and_a_Haircut
| huevosabio wrote:
| ``` the city's roads supplant the courtesy more typical in
| Mexican life for a single rule: "don't give away an inch". For
| this reason, he says, "[d]rivers in Mexico City tend to drive
| with their eyes pointed straight ahead and cast slightly
| downward", because if they were to inadvertently make eye contact
| with another driver, politeness would demand that they manifest
| them a gap in the logjam. ```
|
| ... I feel observed.
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