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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES - Honk if you want to be nicer! YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober has created a car horn that makes a much friendlier sound that the current industry standard, reported CNET.

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 ...

The car horn is one of those things we tend to think we, ourselves, can use differently than everyone else. If we lean on it for five seconds we are well within our right to speak our mind about ...