What It Is: So you're sitting in traffic and the car behind you is feeling a little antsy. The driver leans on the horn and you hear not a harsh toot but a lion's growl. Fans of cellphone ringtones ...

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 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 ...

"Blowing the horn is a fact of life, part of the fabric and culture of the city," Robert Sinclair Jr., a spokesman for AAA New York, told the New York Times back in 2013. "If it weren't there, people ...

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 ...

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