{"id":13805,"date":"2020-02-05T14:15:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/05\/honk-more-wait-more-mumbai-tests-traffic-lights-that-reward-the-patient-driver"},"modified":"2020-02-05T14:15:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:15:54","slug":"honk-more-wait-more-mumbai-tests-traffic-lights-that-reward-the-patient-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13805","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Honk more, wait more&#8217;: Mumbai tests traffic lights that reward the patient driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trial resets traffic lights to red when the noise from car horns goes beyond 85 decibels <\/p>\n<p>There is a truth universally acknowledged by drivers in India: honk your horn loud enough and the traffic lights will surely change to green.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/05\/honk-more-wait-more-mumbai-tests-traffic-lights-that-reward-the-patient-driver\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 impatie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13806,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions\/13806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}