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 ...

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 ...

In a rather harmonious turn for urban soundscapes, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, announced plans to introduce a law mandating that vehicle horns in India emit sounds ...

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 ...

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, ...

Elon Musk says Tesla owners will soon be able to customize horn and movement sounds, with options including a goat bleating, two coconut halves banging together and, yes, even the sound of flatulence ...

DEARBORN (WWJ) Americans have found that if they want to do business in emerging markets, not only do their cars have to be attractive, so do the sounds of the horns. "While here in the United States, ...