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by Brajeshwar 4503 days ago
Similar happenings here in India. Everyone honks for every 10th breath they take while driving.
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True story: I've worked on a QA workflow system for a large car maker. One of the tickets I saw said something like this:

Problem: Cars delivered to India come in for warranty repairs of the horns unusually often.

Root cause analysis: The horns are designed for 50k activation cycles. Due to the more intensive use in India, this is insufficient.

They were still debating whether to build in a sturdier horn everywhere or just for the Indian market...