According to Brandes, early benchmarks for the Hearing Car system include detecting sirens up to 400 meters away in quiet, low-speed conditions. That figure, he says, shrinks to under 100 meters at ...

Classic V8 engines have a very distinct sound that modern engines seem to have lost over the years, mostly because old V8s ...

Q: Do electric cars have a sound added to them? I heard one drive past me the other day and it sounded like something from Star Wars. A: In 1886 the Benz Patent Motor Car made its debut as the first ...

We can hear electric cars but have no idea where they are, according to new research. A study from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden shows that one of the most common signal types is very ...

Electric car maker Tesla Inc is recalling 578,607 vehicles in the United States because pedestrians may not be able to hear a required warning sound of an approaching car due to loud music or other ...

As human-caused sound gets louder around the world, some animals change their behavior and many creatures suffer health ...