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 ...

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 ...

Sound experts have come up with a car horn that sounds like a duck to reduce noise on city streets. A quacking car horn designed to alert people to danger while reducing the cacophony of noise on city ...