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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

While plenty of drivers use their horn to express anger with other motorists, there are actually strict rules around horn ...

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 ...

One spring evening, police officers responded to reports of a six-year-old boy abandoned in a truck, parked outside a house.