Illegal In Utah: Installing This Mammoth Safety Device on Your Car

You might feel frustrated with other drivers, and you have an idea to increase your safety on the road, but if it involves installing a giant horn on your vehicle, you can’t do that in Utah. 

Only Trains Can Sound Like That in the Beehive State 

HornBlasters is a company that supplies all kinds of after-market horns for cars and trucks. On their site they list all the laws in different states that apply to the big train horns. In Utah, the size of the horn you can have is limited. 

The horn or other warning device: shall be capable of emitting sound audible under normal conditions from a distance of not less than 200 feet; and may not emit an unreasonably loud or harsh sound or a whistle 

Some of these train horns can rattle your teeth at more than double the distance listed. It may get somebody’s attention; it also might cause them to drive into a ditch. 

I’m With Utah on This One 

I think this is a good, common-sense law. If you have ever driven in a city where people are honking all the time, it can be nerve wracking. I don’t know that anyone is safer for all that noise. 

In fact, some states, including Texas, will give you a ticket if you use your horn in the wrong way. It is to warn a pedestrian or other driver that there is immediate danger. Any use to anger or intimidate another driver is not allowed. 

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So, before you spend the money for a massive airhorn with its own air compressor that will blow the dentures off the slow driver in front of you, it is probably illegal in Utah.