Next time you're stuck in traffic, take a moment to really listen to the symphony of honks around you. You might not realize it, but those familiar beeps and blares are actually quite unique to where ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...