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, ...

LOS ANGELES - Honk if you want to be nicer! YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober has created a car horn that makes a much friendlier sound that the current industry standard, reported CNET.

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 ...

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 ...

What It Is: So you're sitting in traffic and the car behind you is feeling a little antsy. The driver leans on the horn and you hear not a harsh toot but a lion's growl. Fans of cellphone ringtones ...

Cars have gotten a lot more advanced in the last few decades, but at least one part — the humble car horn — has remained virtually untouched. Until now. As carmakers sell more vehicles globally, ...

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, ...

While plenty of drivers use their horn to express anger with other motorists, there are actually strict rules around horn ...

The country's transportation minister says he will introduce a measure to replace all vehicle horns with the sounds of traditional Indian musical instruments. He's also looking into changing sirens.