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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Road trips are fun. You're just singing in the car with your friends, Carpool Karaoke-style, and then you hear that awful noise: a blaring horn. Former NASA engineer and current YouTuber Mark Rober ...
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 ...
Picture this scenario: there is an obstruction on the road while you are driving, and then you press the horn to signal other motorists and pedestrians to realize that it sounds faint and weak. It can ...
"Blowing the horn is a fact of life, part of the fabric and culture of the city," Robert Sinclair Jr., a spokesman for AAA New York, told the New York Times back in 2013. "If it weren't there, people ...