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, ...

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 ...

Mumbai is a cacophony of honking horns loud enough to damage hearing. Last year, police installed a decibel meter at a busy intersection: Only... The Notoriously Loud Car Horns Of Mumbai Meet Their ...

You may have noticed that we talk a fair share about bikes, and the tragic death of a B.U. student Christopher Weigl last week had several of us chatting about the how the incident put us on edge. We ...

A quacking car horn designed to alert people to danger while reducing the cacophony of noise on city streets has been developed by sound experts. The device, which sounds a little like a synthesised ...

If you have spent time in India and boggled at the sheer scale of traffic noise - convinced that horns on Indian vehicles honk at a higher volume than those back home - it appears you were quite right ...

If you can’t stand the harsh, stressful sound of a blaring car horn, you’re not alone. But cities could be about to get a lot quieter after a team of researchers came up with a far more pleasant ...

A regular car horn is fine, but lacks finesse for more subtle communication. For example, some car horns aren’t particularly adept at short indicatory honks, and can only blare loudly regardless of ...

On a regular day in Dhaka, a motorcyclist was stuck in a tailback of vehicles on his way from New Eskaton to Moghbazar intersection. He began honking the horn impatiently. Asked why he was doing so, ...

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 ...