You may have noticed that we talk a fair share about bikes, and the tragic death of a B.U. student Christopher Weigl last week had several of us chatting about the how the incident put us on edge. We ...

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 ...

Looks like the power balance in the motorist-bicyclist turf battle is about to shift. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, veteran bike commuter and engineer Jonathan Lansey is poised to release ...

Mumbai is a cacophony of honking horns loud enough to damage hearing. Last year, police installed a decibel meter at a busy intersection: Only... The Notoriously Loud Car Horns Of Mumbai Meet Their ...

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 ...

(WMC-TV) - An ice cream truck driver is charged with being too loud. Horn Lake police say the music coming from the ice cream truck violated a city noise ordinance. It is definitely a familiar sound ...

Seven years ago, Darren Mena and his wife were arrested after a ruckus started when he honked his “really loud” car horn at two Miami-Dade detectives in the clogged parking lot of a Pinecrest ...

Q A comment on Abe W.’s question (Roadshow, Dec. 13) about honking to notify bicyclists he is behind them in his quiet electric car. My Chevy Volt has two means of honking: the usual big scary horn in ...

A male spring peeper calls out for a mate. Screengrab from video by Oklahoma Department of Wildlife. You might not spot a spring peeper in the wild but you’d have no problem hearing one. The tiny tree ...

We've shown you some automated turn signals, a brake light backpack, and even a whole automated safety system for bikers, but if you need to be heard as well as seen, a bike bell won't cut it.