A Really Bad Idea to Get Traffic Moving Faster

You don't often hear folks making the case there needs to be more honking in the city. Yet that's in effect what these French pranksters are doing with an infuriating device that honks at drivers the instant a traffic light turns green.

The deadpan title for the invention is the "Traffic Booster," implying that it's meant to speed up the flow of vehicles through the city streets. Yet what it seems to be doing is sowing anger because, really, who wants to be honked at before they even have time to reach the gas pedal? The look on the face of the scooter rider at 0:45 says it all: You got to be frickin' kidding me.