What are the dangers of honking?
What are the dangers of honking? Honking may not only be bad for your health, due to stress put on your cardiac system caused by noise pollution (according to Brainfacts), but honking can also lead to collisions that would otherwise not take place.
What happens if you honk too long?
Normal tooting doesn't do much damage to a horn, but prolonged honks (several minutes) will overheat the coils, causing the insulation to burn off and make stinky smoke. Then the coil wires (now sans insulation) short together increasing the current through the horn until the fuse finally pops.