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 ...

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 ...

A regular car horn is fine, but lacks finesse for more subtle communication. For example, some car horns aren’t particularly adept at short indicatory honks, and can only blare loudly regardless of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Elon Musk says Tesla's cars will soon have customized horn and movement sounds. You'll be able to pick from goats, coconuts, and farts, the CEO suggested in a tweet. This should go well. Tesla CEO ...