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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you can’t stand the harsh, stressful sound of a blaring car horn, you’re not alone. But cities could be about to get a lot quieter after a team of researchers came up with a far more pleasant ...

A NASA engineer has revealed how you can make your car horn sound friendly instead of an angry honk that just annoys other drivers. YouTube star Mark Rober took to his channel, which has 28million ...

Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 26 (ANI): A team of researchers has come up with a car horn that alerts people to danger while reducing the cacophony on city streets. The study, led by Myungjin Bae of ...

Gadkari also said that in order to tackle the issue of noise pollution caused by honking, rules would be framed to make car horns sound like musical instruments.”I have ordered all the carmakers to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. We’ve all done it. Some more so than others. It used to be ...

Your car or truck’s horn probably isn’t something you think about very often. It’s just there, and it works until you hit the button. Until one day it doesn’t. Or maybe you’ve decided that you’re ...

Mark thinks the gadget should be fitted to all cars as standard A NASA engineer has revealed how you can make your car horn sound friendly instead of an angry honk that just annoys other drivers.