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 ...

A Toyota driver says her car’s horn “sounds like a toy,” so she decided to get a new one, but viewers aren’t convinced it is any better. Toyota cars have a reputation for being long-lasting and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elon Musk says Tesla owners will soon be able to customize horn and movement sounds, with options including a goat bleating, two coconut halves banging together and, yes, even the sound of flatulence ...

Beware when walking. This can now fart at you or worse, in my humble opinion, goat scream at you. Photo: Spencer Platt (Getty Images) I now know when it is likely that I will have a heart attack. It ...

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 ...

Tesla isn't done with whimsical software updates just because Netflix and Cuphead have reached your car... in fact, there's a good chance people outside the car will notice. Elon Musk has revealed ...