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 ...
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.
A honk of your car horn, no matter how well-meaning, has the potential to elicit one of a variety of interesting responses from other drivers. On a good day they’ll immediately understand the reason ...
Driving can already be stressful enough, and it's not helped by the plethora of aggressive-sounding horns standard in most cars. Fortunately, YouTuber Mark Rober has come up with the "nicest car horn ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
On vacation in Mexico five years ago, I heard “La Cucaracha” blaring from a ’70s-era Volkswagen Beetle, not when the driver turned up the stereo, but when he blared his horn. I thought to myself, “How ...
Everyone uses a car horn, but did you know the meaning of that honk can vary wildly depending on where you are? According to research on non-verbal communication, in countries such as India and Italy, ...
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