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 ...

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, ...

A quacking car horn designed to alert people to danger while reducing the cacophony of noise on city streets has been developed by sound experts. The device, which sounds a little like a synthesised ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you have spent time in India and boggled at the sheer scale of traffic noise - convinced that horns on Indian vehicles honk at a higher volume than those back home - it appears you were quite right ...

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 quacking car horn designed to alert people to danger while reducing the cacophony of noise on city streets has been developed by sound experts. The device, which sounds a little like a synthesised ...