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As electric vehicles (EVs) become more common on the streets, pedestrians, cyclists, and other vulnerable road users are encountering more and more artificial warning sounds. These signals—known as ...
Thirty-eight children a year die from heatstroke inside a vehicle. Since 1990, at least 1,134 children have died in hot cars in the U.S., and about 7,500 survived with some type of injury, according ...
Today is a gridlock alert day. So you may want to think twice about bringing your car into Manhattan. However, if you like the sounds of honking horns, sirens and engines revving, then go right ...
Studio 17 is back with another exciting episode of What’s That Sound?! The fast-paced game where participants put their ears ...
Scientists theorized that the car sounds drowned out the warning calls of the yellow warbler (pictured), resulting in miscommunication and increasing the likelihood of a confrontation.
Rules of the road The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says new electric cars and hybrids must emit noise when operating at speeds below roughly 20 mph. The sounds are meant to alert ...
On her way home, a Wyoming woman was caught in traffic. Sounds like a normal story, but the cause of the traffic jam was anything but, at least for those not familiar with Yellowstone. A massive ...
To stimulate the sound of an intruder, the team played bird songs from a speaker and recorded traffic noise. These noises were recorded at 38 locations populated by Galápagos yellow warblers on ...
Car fire causes traffic backups on I-140 The API failed to deliver the resource. A car fire caused some standstill traffic on one busy highway Saturday morning.
HOBE SOUND, Fla. (CBS12) — A major truck crash on I-95 South in Hobe Sound is blocking traffic on Tuesday morning. Florida 511 reported a crash just before Exit 96, Hobe Sound, at 8:49 a.m.
Road traffic sounds, such as emergency vehicle sirens and other warning signals, are transmitted via microphones to the teledriver’s headphones.