Shanghai Car - Honking Banned in Shanghai

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In Shanghai, you may try driving shanghai car Nissan Maxima and test how good its Nissan Maxima parts are (is the Maxima available in China?) –but, you may not use at all costs, your car’s horns.

A new law banning honking in the downtown area of Shanghai is prompting local residents and shanghai car owners to toot a different horn. Car owners are reportedly paying up to $100 to have their horns sound with music or a human-voiced warning instead of a honk, came the report from the Shanghai Daily newspaper.

Drivers of cars and motorcycles may no long lay on their horns within Shanghai’s Outer Ring Road and may not sound off at night outside the Outer Ring Road.

If they do, car operators face fines up to 200 yuan (26 dollars) and motorcyclists up to 50 yuan.

It is not stopping drivers and shanghai car owners from getting creative though.
Police said, however, a horn is a horn and drivers face a fine no matter if their horn plays a song or talks.

Chinese car ownership levels are growing rapidly, driven by the rapidly increasing middle class. Ted Conover, in an eye-opening piece in his recent article in New York Times, examines the explosion of roads in China and the country’s newfound love of cars and driving (“Capitalist Roaders”). China, with 2.6 percent of the world’s vehicles, had 21 percent of its road fatalities,” Conover said.

On April 20 2009, Porsche introduced its first luxury sedan during the eve of the Shanghai auto show at the Shanghai World Financial Center; indicating its focus on the Chinese automobile market.