Picture this scenario: there is an obstruction on the road while you are driving, and then you press the horn to signal other motorists and pedestrians to realize that it sounds faint and weak. It can ...

Eons before alert systems and even highways, motorists used a myriad of signaling choices including bells, whistles, chimes, buzzers and hand-squeezed horns, all competing with the sound of horse’s ...

When it comes to car-on bike-accidents, the difference between minor or major injury (or avoiding a collision at all) can come down to fractions of a second. That’s the speed of instinct. The problem, ...

It’s not just ex-NASA engineers who are trying to develop easier-on-the-ear car horns. Researchers in South Korea, too, have been working on creating the ideal honking sound that isn’t as grating as ...

Ringing a bike bell to warn off a car driver is worse than doing nothing, because at least doing nothing won’t make you feel angry and impotent. Honking a car horn, on the other hand, will make a ...

Sound permeates the human experience and gets our attention, sometimes traumatically so. Consider the car horn. It is a widespread practical application of this noise-trauma-alert principle -- and an ...

A Toyota driver says her car’s horn “sounds like a toy,” so she decided to get a new one, but viewers aren’t convinced it is any better. Toyota cars have a reputation for being long-lasting and ...