Klaxons; What makes them sound like that?

[@GeweerBeer]

Can we just appreciate his pretty much perfect impression of a horn?

[@Metal_Master_YT]

yep.

[@bloodaid]

3:13 Damn, he even swears in *horn*

[@Metal_Master_YT]

@@bloodaid just noticed xD

[@RockinEnabled]

Scrolled to comment section immediately after that. Thank heavens, your comment was at the top :)

[@smokysky2547]

yeah, that was really good indeed :D

[@PromptCritical725]

Submarines. I served on a submarine. We had a dive alarm that attempted to replicate the klaxon but sounded like an elephant getting kicked in the nuts. We installed an old-timey klaxon and played it over the 1MC announcing system when diving. It made us feel more submariney.

[@teresashinkansen9402]

Mmmm... now I wonder how does someone kick an elephant in the nuts?

[@caelan5301]

I would argue that the normal klaxon already sounds like an elephant getting kicked in the nuts

[@Zickcermacity]

@@teresashinkansen9402 ... and SURVIVE doing so! lol

[@genderender]

very important upgrade

[@fosty.]

​@@teresashinkansen9402 Do a handstand

[@thcottie]

"Through the magic of buying two..." might be my favorite reoccurring joke.

[@AlleyKatt]

This has to be the dumbest recurring joke on KZbin. And it's probably my favourite, too.

[@michealpersicko9531]

@@AlleyKatt Well it's better than food network chefs going "here's one i prepared earlier that in now way shape or form that one of the lackeys made ahead of time for me because i couldn't be bothered to.

[@drozdziak1]

only if you say it more than once

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

It's 2 years later and I'm still not sick of it 😂😂

[@Architector_4]

Might be a stretch, but another thing to notice in this case: as he's putting down parts of it, he makes two thumps and a kind-of-a cymbal hit with them. Literal badum-tshh, though not in the same rhythm

[@raphaeldagamer]

The initial sounding of the klaxon horn and the fear response to it combine to create a stunning and hilarious audio-visual experience that I hope to pass on to my progeny in the future.

[@joshh828]

Submariner here. We no longer have klaxons installed as standard equipment. The new version runs from the announcing system (each alarm is a different circuit card) and sounds a bit like several dogs dying, so we often find old klaxons from decommissioned subs and wire them in on the sly.

[@harryballz6358]

The new ones should say "Everyone fart really hard so somone up above hears us?".... Sorry bud, I hear sub I can't help thinking of "Down Periscope"...lol Thank you & your family for your service! Fact is our families serve right along with us rather we understand that our not they are along for the ride for damn sure. 🫡..Peace!

[@zombieregime]

Tax payer here. Dear military industrial complex, if you're going to spend so much damn funding on these things, could you have the common decency and expression of some level of functional intelligence to give the kids that sign up years of their lives away to operate some of the death traps yall produce the kind of alarm system that inspires them to not regret their decision dedicating those years in service of a country that would apparently give them digital dogfarts instead? Maybe there is a sonic component to their reasoning, like it resonates in the hull and could be used to figure out where the sub is..... but honestly if that were the case Id have more issue with international relations being that tense where a freaking dive horn would give up the game..... Just give em the fucking klaxon for friggs sake. Signed, one of many who funded your shit alarm. ps - Im sorry sailor, I didnt know they screwed the pooch that bad....

[@SuperFlashDriver]

@@zombieregime Gotta love how the tech takes nearly 20 - 30 years to be replaced, when the originals work just as good, if not better than the new ones.

[@AverageMichaelJordans]

2 Separate comments from submariners, possibly more that are less visible, both testifying that they have retrofitted klaxons on top of their digitized alarm systems for the sake of fun and sanity is conceptually stupefying

[@Kenionatus]

​@@SuperFlashDriver I mean... less parts that can break when you use the already existing speakers. It makes a lot of sense from that perspective. Then again, you now have a single point of failure in the device that sends the sound to the speakers. Then again again, you can also just shout over the intercom. Actually, why even have a dive alarm? Aren't the people up on the sail and the people on the bridge (is it called a bridge?) the only ones that really need to know that the sub is going below the surface at this very moment? (sonar's probably going to notice by themselves)

[@linkinpark9812]

I wonder if his neighbors were wondering why there was a traffic jam in his house.

[@JohnMcLusky]

It's a good thing that his studio is in the basement of a house in a rural area!

[@chronosthevnwierdo6461]

Don't be silly, of course they weren't. They were, however, wondering why there was a submarine battle going on in there.

[@SianaGearz]

I wonder whether he still has neighbours. I wonder whether he has been institutionalised yet, without access to technology and old stuff.

[@Yugophoto]

My theory is this video was filmed a long time ago, and is how he got his level 2 charger installed "if you don't install my charger, I'll play with the horns again" "oh god no, give him the damn charger"

[@pingwenhung8327]

You mean his Neighbor wondering why is there a submarine going to dive in his house.

[@Devil-tm4nu]

I didn’t take that noise warning seriously enough.

[@0JayDoubleU]

😂🤣🤣🤣

[@leechowning2712]

I go the other way. I muted it... And loved his face.

[@GrassLion85]

Saaaaame! Lmao

[@ペターズジョシュア]

Same

[@1objection]

I read this before he used that horn and I'm glad I did. I turned my sound down to the point where it was almost on mute and it was still loud.

[@andrewgoss1682]

Here's my fun fact about car horns! My great grandma could never hear when i was growing up, hearing aids and still couldn't hear you most of the time. I found out it was because she worked in a car factory tuning horns in probably the 50s-60s.

[@wolf25705]

4:25 “Through the magic of “Buying Two of Them’” is still my favorite running joke on this show.

[@BobStein]

Finally got it. The magic of repeating a joke like the magic of repeating the buy. Like the magic of explaining a joke...

[@Gotinha123]

The way you used quotes annoys me

[@datsun100a3]

That one German kid Sourkraut he cant reply bc he flew awaysahsbxhhfjhfcniufvf

[@wolgrave3016]

I love how to subtitles are different with the two different horns horn1: BEEP horn2:beep

[@queersaint]

horn 1: (sounded angry) horn 2: (it's not mad, just disappointed) the subtitles are a gift

[@craftyfish0]

When it went to the kalxon, the subtitles went "Ahooooooga"

[@djmoch1001]

@@craftyfish0 "Holy *HONK!* this thing is loud!"

[@Fig_Bender]

Absolute God tier subtitles

[@harryf9885]

Yeah his subtitles are great. I usually don’t use subtitles but always turn them on for his videos

[@pater5094]

When you say "you shouldn't put it on your car" I'm hearing "its perfect for your shitbox motorcycle" Perfect tip, thanks!

[@BrianFullerton]

Same for my shitbox pickup...right next to the spot I am leaving for the eventual cruise ship horn.

[@PortCharmers]

What for? Shitbox motorcycles' exhaust note should overshadow any horn anyway.

[@harryf9885]

PortCharmers maybe not this one lol. It’s f***ing loud

[@BazilRat]

Bugger your motorcycle, I'm trying to figure out how to fit one to a bicycle...

[@docthebiker]

I use a snail style air horn on my bikes. Compact and probably louder. Instead of a blind witch sideswiping me at 110mph on the autobahn she jumped up and ate her headlining.

[@critskraiserfirgrats1783]

0:28 table corner is visible.

[@daboy9390]

why live

[@killerthrillzmar8871]

Goddamnit

[@Pars3ly]

Fuck you random stranger. Now i cant unsee it. ☹️☹️

[@RadioactiveBluePlatypus]

Wtf I thought the table was endless, my life is forever changed

[@Blahaj_IKEA]

My life is a lie

[@Otto_von_Chesterfield]

3:13 - That sound warning is no joke, I can barely hear him speaking but the horn was loud enough to make me jump.

[@JunoTheRailfan844]

yea it scared the %$& out of me XD

[@lambdaexclamationpoint]

yeah i was looking at my breakfast when it popped up, frightening mistake

[@Dorumin]

Nice avatar, DST is lots of fun

[@calculator1841]

I even read this comment, waited at the t/s, still jumped lol

[@Noratekki]

It made me laugh instead of scare me

[@aidanfarnan4683]

"Stupidly load." Silly noise". "Makes a sound by rotating a motor." and "only $10". *Me, fixing one directly to a hand-held drill and sneaking up behind my flatmate* "You don't say?"

[@loganiushere]

*former flatmate now

[@amymoriyama6616]

Ooooo, I think I might have to make something like this...

[@saganandroid4175]

Bonus points for mating it to an impact wrench.

[@theactualslapmaster2466]

Jesus Christ that's an idea

[@vaclav_fejt]

My mate once carried a acid-lead battery and a Fiat Ducato horn on his bycicle. Imagine if I could gear *this* on the pedals.

[@MatthewSmith-sz1yq]

I can't stop laughing from the car alarm diving joke. I got the mental image of someone smashing your car's window, only for the horn to start blaring, the radio starts yelling "dive, dive, dive!" and the car sinks into the ground.

[@AgentLane13]

This is a beautiful image and I love you for it

[@SonsOfLorgar]

Colin Furze is working on it 😂

[@zombieregime]

Hey Alec! I found another one for the weirdo club! Welcome, brother.😁

[@Xavierisbst.]

imagine this actually happening to your car someone just breaks your window and your car goes into the ground. then what do you do?

[@user-ty6we2sp2m]

That's how it feels to be dreaming

[@manifestgtr]

Dude, the fact that you’re wearing a 727 shirt is an elixir for my soul. That’s one of my favorite airliners of all time…mostly retired now and massively under-appreciated for the “pilots’ airplane” that it was

[@navelriver]

I wish I was back in those times.

[@hranolcek]

wysi wyfsi

[@C76Caravan]

Same

[@user-nk4td9bg6w]

yes sir!!! would love to spend a few days back in time visiting all of the airports 😅

[@ryanjohnson4565]

Peanut butter flavored floss

[@gabesouthwell2415]

Can we just appreciate that horn noise he made with his mouth at the start

[@YostPeter]

It was surprisingly accurate.

[@FernieCanto]

@@YostPeter It was a very... pleased sounding horn, though: "a-HOOOO-ahhhh!"

[@mctv6486]

Totaly not a way to tell a car to Frick Off

[@mumblbeebee6546]

Amen. That had me floored, the rest of the video, however solid, is struggling to get my attention after that glorious sound! It sounded even more like a klaxon than a klaxon!!

[@schelsullivan]

You could use his voice audio and allowed speaker as a horn.

[@fatcerberus]

"The result is a f*honk*ing loud noise" Best censor ever.

[@jacobnemeth7634]

Fhonk

[@homefront3162]

lolololol

[@theycallmeJacko]

*beep

[@NavJordaan]

IKR!

[@seacow8114]

Time stamp is 1:21 I think

[@GlitchedBlox]

Car: *Activates horn* Neighbor: It's probably a submarine.

[@ebinrock]

But the horn makes "one ping only, Mr. Vizili"!

[@mattiviljanen8109]

Car: *activates horn (for the seventh time) Neighbour: Dammit, when is he going to fix his submarine!?

[@eken81]

What? A submarine in the community pond?

[@Hexagonian]

@@eken81 no, a submarine in your flooded basement.

[@jonathankydd1816]

ahh yes, the common suburban submarine

[@HerrDoktorWeberMD]

"this joke is never gonna get old" man, I've been watching this channel for years and my friend and I still sprinkle "through the magic of buying two of them..." into our work conversations.

[@williamreynolds6132]

I just got my emissions test done and every time they moved a car they would hit the horn a couple times. Just being able to watch through the windows at the testers reactions would make that horn worth it.

[@bobatronsloshy4180]

Dew it

[@congruentcrib]

Depending on you car, you may get an even better reaction when getting tires/ a rotation. If you ask them to relearn the TPMS (Tire Pressure Monitoring System/Sensor) there's a chance (depending on manufacturer) that the horn will honk. Most commonly on GM cars and trucks. What happens is the car is put into TPMS Relearn Mode; the horn will honk twice. After that, they will have to trigger each sensor (1 per tire) and once the car recognizes that a sensor has been triggered, it'll honk one more time. This will leave you with 8 short honks. I hate doing this with regular car honks... I don't want this with louder horns. The whole point of relearning the sensors is so the vehicle knows which sensors it needs to keep track of. Some cars even tell you what pressure the tires are at, and this is nice except most shops don't relearn the sensors, so you may see it says your front passenger side tire is low, when its actually your driver rear, or you driver front, or your passenger rear. If your vehicle does show where the tires are, make sure they relearn the sensors every time you get a rotation or new tires. They cant charge you because technically it could be considered "disabling a safety feature" which in the eyes of DOT any safety feature is equal to all... disable a tire light, just as bad as disabling the airbags. Being said, this is more of a technicality, and most places wont put up much of a fight if you tell them that information. They'll assume you know what you're talking about and they'll know its an uphill battle. I did not mean to type out a whole essay. One thing lead to another, and this is what I'm left with. I'm sorry

[@marccolten9801]

When I lived in NJ the emission test included EVERYTHING but the sound system - lights, horn, brakes. Here in Georgia they check NOTHING. All the cars around you are death machines but no harmful emissions.

[@congruentcrib]

@@marccolten9801 wanna talk about death machines… I had a customer who was worried about his rear brakes. He got them done at some sketchy place. Let me just list some of the issues…. The pitman arm (what steers the car) has so much play in it, the rear hubs had play, I don’t even know how the balljoints were in place, they’re just waiting to fall out. It has engine codes, ABS codes, one of the leaf spring shackle’s u bolt was snapped- on both sides, the place he had it worked on just gave him his parking brake saying it “fell off” (it has drums and that means the parking brake is required for it to function), the brake pedal was super soft and unresponsive, there was an old brake line that was just resting in the back of the truck, any time you’d put it in drive it would jolt forward, both front swaybar links were snapped, one of the rear brake cylinders was spewing fluid, the rear shocks were completely blown, one of the rubber bushings was just missing from one of the shocks, it leaked trans fluid, and best of all… there were 3 holes in the transmission… just straight up 3 holes? All of which looked to be done by the manufacturer. 2 of which had threads. There’s more if you want. Customer doesn’t care about any food that… just wants his brakes to work.

[@darthkarl99]

@@congruentcrib As somone from the UK, Oof. That would not be road legal.

[@mrpotat680]

He did an almost perfect impression of one.

[@Circuitssmith]

“a-woog.” Flawless.

[@anothrto1045]

Well he's pulling info out of somewhere so he must be a proctologist

[@stephencook4402]

When I was in high school my dad and I restored a 1927 Chevrolet. My recollection is that the klaxon on that car had a motor driving a rotating drumstick that hit the diaphragm when you used the horn. Since it was literally one beat per revolution the sound was lower and the modulation more distinct than these modern klaxons. (this was 60 years ago so my memory may be faulty)

[@kokopellione]

If that was 60 years ago how old are you now

[@lxndshark4123]

Probably at least 60

[@jacobshort6528]

My Dad helped his Mother fix their 1932 Ford Model A in their driveway, during the winter, when he was younger than 10. It was their daily driver and had to run well every day. Grandpa died in 1949 when Dad was just 6 going on 7. So this man could be in his 70s.

[@jacobshort6528]

@jernejj5 My dad is 79, and he said that all the kids in the village of Onota went to a one room schoolhouse, kindergarten through 12th grade in the same room, with just one teacher. The older kids helped tutor the younger kids. 12 year-olds were in 5th grade, unless they scored higher on the tests and could skip some grades. But back then the really old cars were much simpler to repair and restore than cars of today. A toolbox might have 3 or 4 wrenches, a hacksaw, one flatbit screwdriver, a hammer and a coil of baling wire. This could fit in a small box beneath the seat. And kids helped work on cars from an early age, as their smaller hands could reach into places a grownups couldnt.

[@TheGearhead222]

@@jacobshort6528 Your adjust the tone by adjusting the nut on the top of the horn diaphragm. This changes the tension between the diaphragm, the ball bearing and the rotating wave washer-really simple in concept. -John in Texas

[@voltare2amstereo]

A tech-con video i can't listen to when trying to sleep

[@Ayeloo]

*Eyes pop out, pupils turn to bombs and explode eyes, slams fist of table multiple times and empty eyeholes shoot out smoke puffs like a factory shift whistle, howls like wolf, tongue rolls out, screams AWOOOOOOOOOGA* NOW THAT'S A DAME

[@RobCamp-rmc_0]

Ayeloo Official HAHT CHA CHAAAA

[@zangetsuu]

i was desperately in search of this comment, my brow was absolutely caked in sweat like a newborn is caked in its mother's juice with worry that i would never see this again. thank you

[@clark987878]

This

[@wyattroncin941]

you're forgetting the heart leaping out of your chest cavity about 3 feet

[@susano7135]

Ah yeah, we're on the same wavelength buddy

[@nagiuhti]

As a Greek person, I can tell you the ancient Greek word ”klazo” is used in its modern Greek version as "klano”,and it means ”fart". Very nice!

[@tetraphobie]

Farting, aka Nature's organic horn.

[@tho_tho]

As also a Greek person who actually knows Greek, "klazo" and "klano" are two entirely different words not even remotely relevant to one another. "Klazo" means to create any high pitched/piercing sound like metal ringing.

[@Vpmatt]

I wish I could fart "awooga!" on demand.

[@hilariousskullnamedcatzo647]

Hahahahahah klano

[@heroponriki518]

Very nice!

[@tylernatale7898]

This is the first ever noise warning I've seen that's followed by an actually sufficiently jarring noise

[@andrewpena9041]

Luckily I was in the process of turning my headset down. Glad I did.

[@lynxranger9226]

You’ve never seen “Scotland forever,” then

[@SobrietyandSolace]

I HAVE HEADPHONES ON AND IT WASN'T ENOUGH NOTICE

[@dillpixell]

was turning down the volume and it still scared the shit out of me

[@ashleystadlman2371]

I turned down my sound by like 2 dots and it still wasn’t enough

[@Catholic17]

The impression of the klaxon was amazing, and 3:13 dang

[@RonanNotRyan]

"And the result is a **CAR HORN** loud noise." This channel is brilliant.

[@mctv6486]

one time i remember hearing a horn like that and i droped a 6 pack of coke cans and they exploded all over the parking lot

[@johnmcquay82]

@@mctv6486 Did you go back into the store to replace the cans and buy a clean pair of pants?

[@mctv6486]

@@johnmcquay82 no it didnt get on me cuz i put them on a shelf and i was 5 feet away wehn they fell off the shelf and blew up

[@mctv6486]

@Y O J I M B O 用心棒 no i was in a walmart

[@clentistwoud]

@Y O J I M B O 用心棒 I'll ask you: Is it this important?

[@HexedPedestrian]

That was a surprisingly accurate vocalization of an old car horn.

[@Ralph-yn3gr]

"Better use this car battery that I just have lying around" You know, as you do. Also, fun fact: those things were originally hand cranked. I have a feeling that's why they're "mechanical loudspeakers" run by a spinning motor. They just replaced the hand crank with an electric motor and called it a day.

[@ET_AYY_LMAO]

Honestly, dont you? I dont even own a car and I got one

[@the_kombinator]

Currently (haha), I have 3 car batteries and some UPS 12v batteries lying around my house. Well, strictly speaking, they're lying around and being connected to a trickle charger, but yeah, they're around. Lying.

[@ZenoDLC]

Well, guess taking one hand for relatively a long time to crank a horn would be dangerous while driving

[@butre.]

I just rounded up my collection of car batteries a few days ago and discovered that 31 of them need to be brought to the scrapyard

[@hagerty1952]

A lot of them weren't "cranked" in the manner of twisting a handle in a circle. They used a rack and pinion with the rack sitting along side the flywheel inside. The device would be mounted to the side of the car near the driver (like on the door post or windshield pillar) and said operator would mash the top of the rack. This would spin up the flywheel for a quick burst. This is the same way those thumb-drive sparkler toys worked.

[@Victor-tl4dk]

6:51 I would love to see the look on a thief's face when the car suddenly goes into dive mode 😂😂😂

[@JuliaCV9]

"better use this... car battery that I have lying a-" *[OOOOOOOGA!!!]* 3:13

[@KrugerBabadook]

you can see the horn roll because of the motor

[@mySeaPrince_]

@@KrugerBabadook ... there's a video idea... 🐱 ...

[@KrugerBabadook]

@@mySeaPrince_ wat?

[@gab_v250]

Holy f[Gary horn honk] this thing is loud!

[@mySeaPrince_]

@@KrugerBabadook Torque reaction?

[@macdjord]

I d'know; if I heard a submarine announcing it was about to dive in the middle of the city, that would get my attention a lot better than just another car alarm.

[@SunriseLAW]

Oh please,, everyone know submarines are in the water... not the city. FACTS: They have STRICT laws about diving horns ...which prevented the end of the world. A couple weeks ago I was in my Ohio-class nuclear submarine deciding which continent to obliterate when a Seawolf submarine pulled me over and gave me a ticket for the wrong diving horn. They searched my vessel and temporarily impounded my 24 ballistic missiles with MIRV warheads until I installed the correct diving horn and paid the $200 fine.

[@tlangdon12]

@@SunriseLAW Did you ever decide which continent to obliterate?

[@SunriseLAW]

@@tlangdon12 Based on the Diving Horn Laws, I am thinking about the East Coast of USA from about Richmond VA up to Portland, Maine. I am still stinging over the $200 fine and I have to get a 'legal' diving horn. I contacted General Dynamics in Groton CT.... A new diving horn for an Ohio-class sub costs over $143 million!!!! I ended up ordering a Chinese-made diving horn, the exact same one they sell to General Dynamics for $95 and it is on its way!

[@tlangdon12]

@@SunriseLAW Result!

[@mySeaPrince_]

@@SunriseLAW Have you been watching too many TC videos... 🐱 ...

[@Spirit532]

"As in the event of a break-in, any would-be do-gooder will simply think your car is diving below the surface" was the line that killed me. That, and the short alarm blip.

[@Adenzel]

Was hoping someone mentored this, it had me in stitches.

[@cowtastic141]

@@Adenzel do you need an ambulance

[@Adenzel]

@@cowtastic141 Quite possibly, my typo makes it look like I'm having a stroke 😅

[@pomaranc747]

And I was drinking just as he said it, over my laptop as well...

[@FyreWulff]

gonna be honest i've been pretty down and out this past week and that line gave me one of the most unstoppable gut laughs i've had in a while

[@Pika915]

1:56 MISTAKE!!!! Two notes being played at once is called an Interval, a chord only happens with 3 or more

[@CODDE117]

Pedantic but true

[@thatonesigmer_guy]

yuh

[@Gab-zj7xt]

Sure but most importantly in this case it's major, not minor

[@nik4244]

Nerd

[@squeakyfoxx]

kinda? an interval is merely just the tone difference between 2 notes, like a 3rd or a 5th. that last part is right though, 2 notes played at once isn't quite a chord(unless you'te a metal guitarist, then that's a "power chord"). I don't know what 2 notes would be called, if anything.

[@UpsideDownCycle]

these horns could damage the ears of other people! You cant use them in a ca- haha red horn go *A W O O G A*

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

KLAXON BEAT

[@PanduPoluan]

@@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413 Now I'm so looking forward to DJs sampling the awooga sound and use it in their mixes 😆

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

You can't do anything in Commiefornia.

[@UpsideDownCycle]

wow! Thank you for 1000 likes guys! Very cool!

[@greenscreen1060]

I'm buying one right now to install in my car because of this video.

[@CaveyMoth]

"This would be an effective horn should you put one on your vehicle." [In the exact same tone] "Should you put one on your vehicle?" Hilarious!

[@jek__]

"People are stupidly dangerous nearly all the time!" lol, i love your tone when you said that Hey fun fact, sine wave sounds are fundamentally difficult to locate for creatures that audiolocate with two ears, as we do so by calculating time discrepancy between the sounds in each of our ears, and sine waves are hard to match up with other sine waves because they could go forward or backward, and both are just as reasonable. Thats why it can seem like the sound is rapidly switching from one ear to the other, with minor changes in orientation. So really, pure sinusoidal sounds are functionally the worst possible sound to use for stuff like car horns and phone ringers, because our ear hardware can't locate it very well. This is quite a dangerous oversight in many cases, one of the dangers is people swerving the wrong way in their cars, not being able to tell which truck is backing up to get out of the way, or simply missing a phone call because the tool designed to get located is fundamentally unlocatable. Klaxons seem much better for this, with their weird nonlinear sound. Wait, crap, did I pick up the information about sound locating from this channel? lol Honestly all the horns sound bad to me, because they're used as communication tools to indicate something bad. No matter how pleasant they sound, they will always sound bad because of their function

[@qwertyTRiG]

This is why many trucks now use white noise: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJKVaZ9_fNqrp5o.

[@sixstringedthing]

The science behind designing warning alarms is really fascinating. On the one hand, you'd expect pure sinusoidal waves to be good for the purpose as they don't occur in nature and are therefore quite distinctive to the human ear in terms of tone, but they're difficult to locate for the reasons described above. The use of specific frequencies for certain reasons and the use of white/pink noise are also very interesting. The subjective "goodness" or "badness" of horn sounds are a cultural/environmental thing to some extent. In countries such as India and China, bicycle bells and car horns are used almost constantly in dense traffic as a "Here I am, don't hit me" signal. I think anyone who grew up in such an environment would have a different subjective judgement of those noises. But on the other hand, such a person may be even more alarmed (heh) by a warning siren or horn sound they are unfamiliar with, which I suppose is the whole point.

[@SuperAWaC]

Fortunately we get directionality from sound reflecting off different surfaces and through life experience we pick up the intuition for it.

[@ziiofswe]

You need to get one of those air horn sets that play La Cucaracha or something. Play it at least once a day to increase your liking of horns.

[@Alloveck]

So is that the reasoning behind certain insects, specifically the ones with extremely monotone calls, somehow sounding like one source of sound in multiple places at once? If so, there's one lifetime mystery solved.

[@roytee3127]

That Gary horn - that's the sound that car horns made back when I was a kid. Sounds like men wearing hats and suits. The hoens in my Dad's cars looked like that, too. 7:43

[@justuni8735]

I edited this comment so you won't know what i said.

[@coolbionicle]

LMFAO! 😂 Criminal: "What the-?! Aaarrrgggbrlblbrbrlblblbrlblb!!!!" 🏊

[@lgn700]

Dammit I stole a bait sub!

[@bobafettjr85]

​@@lgn700 It was a sting operation by the Navy the whole time.

[@KenpachiZarakiX]

LMAO

[@YourLocalCatboy]

"Up rearview mirror!"

[@epiccollision]

“And people are stupidly dangerous nearly all the time” we really should come with a warning label of some sort

[@the_egg_]

Caution: stupid people

[@jcsjcs2]

"Here's your sign". Bill Engvall already had that insight ;-)

[@BrockPittsPhoto]

epiccollision warranty and information card delivered at birth

[@kogasoldier9379]

Most people do, you just can't see it. There's usually two types: Democrat and Republican.

[@dewetolivier2362]

It's almost as if we are the trailer trash of the galaxy , or the universe...

[@miguellefevre2089]

I’ve had one of these installed on my car for about two years. I hardly ever use my horn, and every time I do, I’ve completely forgotten about it and it scares me every time.

[@trainsntile]

LOL!!

[@J19_vlogger74]

just wait till you accidently set the alarm off

[@Smileyea81]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Netro1992]

"this joke will never get old." Correct, never stop doing it.

[@Duranceau]

When I was a kid, in the early 70's, my family used to live in Gabon, in equatorial Africa. As we were planning on leaving the capital to go traveling around the country, we had to have our car outfitted, in addition to the regular horn, with a "klaxon de brousse" (a bush klaxon), a super loud horn, that we'd use before every major curve in the road, so that we could make our presence known, up to a kilometre ahead, to the drivers of the huge logging trucks careening recklessly on the narrow laterite dirt mountain roads. It was quite striking hearing our little white Renault 4 howling like an old-timey truck.

[@johngaltline9933]

The magic of buying a second one does, in fact, never get old.

[@Sammie1053]

I will still never get over the mythical third toaster

[@landenfisher4754]

“Your manufacture decides to spurge on you”

[@trainsntile]

I installed one of these in my 1st new car, a 1980 VW Rabbit. I love cars of the 30s, 40s & 50s. In fact, I had my buddy put a 1950s 'flame job' on this car 3 months after I bought it! Nuts, HUH? Sand down a perfectly beautiful factory black paint job to put 'flames' on the hood, fenders & into the doors! The guy did an excellent job! Anyway, back to the horn. Everyone knew when I was around, as I DID make the 'ah-OOO-gah' my primary horn. I even had the state motor vehicle inspectors grinning & laughing. They said that the horn was DEFINATELY loud enough!! Anyway, I just sold the car to my daughter's girlfriend's dad about a month ago. I forgot to tell the guy about the horn. He hasn't gotten around to getting it running yet, but I'm sure my daughter will get a text about the horn. (PS- It never got wet, so I'm guessing that it still works!) Maybe I'll install one in the "06 Scion Tc that I just bought- Hmmm?

[@tuxrandom]

TC: Holy [honk] this thing is LOUD! Me: Now that would make for a perfect alarm clock upgrade.

[@24ecko]

Here you go lol kzbin.info/www/bejne/bquoeWh9rbWBhZo

[@jacobshort6528]

That'll bust your ear drums!

[@tbuk8350]

@@jacobshort6528 and as an added bonus, wake you up instantly! Heck, you might start automatically waking up 10 minutes before the alarm goes off, so you can defuse it first!

[@kayleighmoore6951]

@@tbuk8350 Oh wait! You can't defuse it.

[@richardbaumgart2454]

@@tbuk8350 😂

[@SwankeyMonkey]

I love how he taunts us with the challenge of installing these into our cars. Telling us how bad of an idea it is, yet with a wink gives us full instructions on how it can be managed.

[@ethan323z]

SwankeyMonkey I actually installed one of these on my old Ford Taurus and it was hilarious

[@joelpowell4424]

An old fella I lived with had 2, one on his car and one on his mobility scooter 😂

[@1115devon]

The horn in my 78 f150 died so I replaced it with one

[@justinjrebbert]

“Layered sounds can be difficult to decipher, and I’m not a proctologist.” I swear I almost passed out after laughing so hard from this…quite possibly the funniest thing I’ve heard so far this decade!

[@kevinrandlett2920]

Omg this will age like a fine wine!

[@kevinbirge442]

I agree, He tells his jokes all the time and I usually smile and nod out of politeness. This time I laughed out loud.

[@quilynn]

I seriously can't figure out the joke...

[@Inferryu]

@@quilynn The best I can think of is the fact that proctologists can use ultrasound to check your bum, going thru the different layers in your skin, I can't think of anything else.

[@TheOtherCiphbruh]

@@quilynn Honestly, you are not alone.

[@Blakeyrobinson858]

3:14 MY SOUL JUMPED OUT OF MY BODY THAT WAS SO LOUD

[@SuperCookieGaming_]

“to ahoog” that cracked me up. 5:53 for those who want to hear it again and again.

[@Nostaljack]

I remain dead. Someone send help.

[@Wutsizbukkit]

​@Nostaljack nah, you'll be fine

[@OneironauticalOne]

What about those distinct eerie sirens that we hear during a tornado or air raid?

[@cthulutech4697]

He should definitely cover those too

[@bmjames]

I always wondered how they worked, having seen people cranking them in war movies. How could something hand-cranked be so loud!?

[@tinfoilhat38]

Ben James the small ones were hand cranked the bigger ones had electric motors. Some of the really big ones had Chrysler V8 engines.

[@YourLocalCatboy]

A turbine-type-thing with alternating slots. That noise is it spinning up to speed and then slowing down, a more drawn-out sound because there's a lot of inertia in the thing.

[@redsquirrelftw]

They work sorta like a furnace blower, but instead of fins designed to move lot of air it's more like bars and it generates a noise. There's more to it than that but that's basically the gist of it. There's some videos of people who have built them, I kinda want to but I have no where to test it lol. My whole city would hear it and I'd be seeing a billion posts on FB. Ok now I kind of want to do it.

[@smonkyduck3248]

sees woman My jaw drops to the floor, my eyes extend at a velocity never before seen, I take out a boxing glove and hit myself with it 17 times, pant like a dog, and yell AOOOOGA AOOOOGA then turn to the audience and say in 1930’s New York accent “HOT MAMA, now that’s a dame!”

[@itsrazvinotrizvi]

Smonky Duck ahhhh the mask..

[@baryl]

I wonder if she plays overwatch

[@XistoKente]

The klaxon's speedy click is a great example of how speeding up rhythm creates pitch.

[@FreihEitner]

"When in doubt take the silly option." Amen brother!

[@seanwieland9763]

Does the girl come with the horn? 😝

[@Tech-Nobby]

@@seanwieland9763 i think she provides it ;)

[@kyandeiai]

My family’s car had a klaxon horn on it, we did indeed install it separately from the main horn. We mostly used it for jokes and scaring people, they are very, very loud. Edit: I am perfectly aware of the usage of a/an. Proofreading my writing for a KZbin comment is not something I bother to do.

[@DryPaperHammerBro]

“An klaxon”

[@mumbles552]

I've done the same thing. It really wakes up people with their nose in their phone!

[@neilforbes416]

@@DryPaperHammerBro Yes, "A Klaxon", not "An Klaxon" It's bad enough the letter 'H' gets abused like that...... A herb, not An Herb!

[@heinousdickanus6040]

@@neilforbes416 while i know and acknowledge it isnt correct, saying "an herb" rolls off the tongue better because its pronounced "erb" by everyone around me.

[@GinjaNinja32]

@@neilforbes416 Depends how you pronounce "herb". If you say it with a hard "h", like you'd say at the start of "huh", then "a herb" is correct. If you say it with no "h", like if you pronounced "huh" as "uh", then "an herb" is correct. Basically, a/an doesn't depend on whether the next *letter* is a consonant, it depends whether the next *sound* is a consonant - otherwise it'd be a hour and an uniform.

[@andreabotti99]

Fun fact: in Italian even modern car horns are called “clacson”

[@MetalheadAndNerd]

I guess they just skipped the r.

[@KrzysiuNet]

Cool! In Polish it's quite the same: "klakson".

[@thingman100]

In Dutch we call it claxon

[@Gribbo9999]

Jeremy Clacson. A big noise signifying little.

[@bog2k3]

same in Romanian: claxon

[@gehinkun]

Would love to see a video where increased current is applied to the klaxon and to see how the spin speed of the motor affects the sound

[@KolemansShow]

Me: *sees noise warning* Me: its prob not that loud Me 2 sec later: why is the video now mute?

[@JodyBruchon]

My pants are now brown.

[@cact_i]

i was surprised because it actually hurt my ears

[@PanduPoluan]

Holy fHONK this thing is loud!!!

[@fenrix155]

It get like that part in doctor strange where his astral body gets punched out of him

[@chopun3862]

I jumped out of my skin

[@jesseschilling]

"...cars are dangerous things, and people are stupidly dangerous almost all of the time..." I feel seen

[@RetroArcadeGuy]

Just heard cars about to crash while typing this. So, yeah. I can confirm.

[@ClokworkGremlin]

Car accidents kill more people in the US every year than firearms.

[@PrincessLorelei]

This sums up my entire experience with humanity.

[@alexgrovejones]

"I'm not a proctologist" What a bummer.

[@ryderragone1167]

omg

[@littleonion216]

And the winner for the most underrated comment goes to...

[@poiiihy]

definitely not urs

[@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo]

BUM-er

[@itchykami]

ok bummer.

[@Mad_Maximus7]

3:14 RIP headphone users

[@the1stLoudHeart]

“I think there wasn’t a Greek word for.. to awoog.”

[@PixelSchnitzel]

It has been long enough. Is there one now? I mean, surely at some point over the centuries, *someone* in Greece has needed to awoog by now. The odds are just too high.

[@theodoro89]

I'm Greek and I've never heard that word. I guess we've stopped awooging...

[@Dark0neone]

@@theodoro89 Man dies twice. Once when he stops awooging and once when he sheds this mortal coil.

[@SkylarsTerribleMemes]

"The other style of horn is this style, which I will call Gary." I love this channel.

[@pyxyne]

I love how that was immediately followed by "A Gary horn, also known as a trumpet horn, [...]"

[@richardemms3050]

If you aren't sure what something is called, give it an unnecessary name.

[@pHD77]

Gary... Hmm 🤔 By any chance a SPONGEBOB reference? 😂

[@1959Edsel]

There's an aurora called Steve.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@TD070VA1 not necessarily. Gary is a common name. It could also be a Pokemon reference, given Alec's age.

[@carwyn3691]

I'll need to add "To Awoog" to my everyday vocabulary

[@EvilishDem0nic8732WhatItDo]

Honey, wanna cuddle? AWEOOGAHH

[@mutated__donkey5840]

It’s my new favorite verb

[@bravobird9435]

Rohan fancy seeing you here

[@wcs792]

"the magic of buying two of them" is an eternal joke because like... yeah, you obviously didn't break down the one you were using for filming the intro, hanging a lampshade is a long-honored comedic tradition. It's a classic and good joke.

[@rzpogi]

I remember this became a popular aftermarket motorcycle horn in the Philippines about 10-15 years ago. Almost all motorcycles had it that when you hear that sound it's definitely a motorcycle honking at you.

[@JTguitarlessons]

Lol of course it did

[@jheanelltabana8713]

Can you hear any ahoogas today, or was it just a fad?

[@vaclav_fejt]

Again, I want this on my bicycle. Purely mechanically driven, if possible.

[@posthistoricdino422]

The fact about having two horns tuned to a minor third makes me wonder what other intervals of horns would sound like. Want to sound more pleasant as you make your car yell at other cars? How about a major third? A perfect fifth? What if you want to sound more harsh and make it a tritone? And what if you added a third horn and honked in chords? Truly, the possibilities are endless.

[@0JayDoubleU]

@Martha Sviniard 😂 is not that hard to just accept that it fascinates him, Lolol who cares.

[@teodelfuego]

A tritone would sound evil!

[@charliestubbs6151]

you’re mean. delet this

[@Sgt_Glory]

As a child I remember my grandfather having an English friend who had a rather complex aftermarket horn setup in his Oldsmobile. He had an little keyboard with keys in the car with which he could play little melodies with what I just assume were several different horns. I believe it even had the ability to store a few pre-programmed combinations. This was in the late 90's, I've no idea if these still exist.

[@johnsmith1882-x2i]

PosthistoricDino I experimented with custom horns. A major triad sounds ridiculous , Like a clown car. A minor third is very appropriate as it is a ‘serious’ sound.

[@SimplyV3rna]

I don't think the question why it sounds like that is answered in detail.. Let me try: The "ahooga" sound is basically the motor speed curve. The ramp up "ah" part is the motor gaining speed and the "hoo" part is acheiving the max speed and the "ga" part is motor decelerating without power. The ridges is constant so the only thing that will affect the frequency is the motor speed at a given time. The diaphragm will dictate the characteristic of the sound and it should remain relatively similar on different frequency.

[@MojoPup]

That's what we figured in shop class too. One of the guys decided to make his own horn, so we played around with voltages, etc..

[@hansoak3664]

Excellent explanation. Thanks!

[@anandsuralkar2947]

He did answer that partially though

[@YesYesYoureRight]

@@dnfking6509 The jerries were never in the united states, kingly.

[@YesYesYoureRight]

Yes, you are quite right arvi verona. I mentioned that "there is a metal plate and something scratches it by means of the pumping handle". It is a quiet scraping noise but is naturally amplified by the metal housing all about it. Looked very primitive and "simple", when I opened mine, I was shocked, I thought it would have been much more complicated. . My OOagah horn is from New York (factory) in 1906 manual not electric. Have A Nice Day. Thank you arvi verona o0o

[@jonnyhifi]

Another superb video. Pleasingly I’d forgotten I’d watched it 5 years back. So worth another watch. I’d never thought of informative technical documentary as a stand up comedy form. I So enjoy your content ! Millions of views are not wrong :)

[@franceslarina5508]

"This joke is never gonna get old" I came back six months later to say...yeah, it's still funny.

[@violetsteele350]

Whenever I walk around thrift shops, I find myself looking for machines there are 2 of to "through the magic of buying two of them" myself.

[@narnigrin]

Honestly, by now I've come to expect it in every video

[@nathanielhill8156]

​@@narnigrinsame, it's the best and it's still funny

[@couchmaster3773]

"All submarines are legally required to have one of these to signal that they're about to *die.* "

[@Littlebill85]

I believe the term is Dive. ;)

[@michaelfoye1135]

Dive, not die.

[@firstdictonary]

Sort of. In non-combat dives, that is the case. In combat dives... Using a horn is a really bad idea unless you want every enemy to know where you are.

[@scythelord]

@@firstdictonary yep. A diving sub with a klaxon would instantly be detected with accuracy. It'd be a death sentence.

[@NeonBeeCat]

Before you sea sea life, you must DIIIIIIVVEEEEEE

[@andrewandcubes]

Two notes make a chord!? You'll surely anger the music theory gods with that one..

[@TechnologyConnections]

I have already received feedback, yes

[@Tokkemon]

@@TechnologyConnections love you Alec!

[@blindleader42]

@@TechnologyConnections Mission Accomplished, eh?

[@stevethepocket]

According to 8-Bit Music Theory, yes, you can make a chord with only two notes.

[@BatteryCoverMissing]

You could argue that any sound with extreme upper harmonic overtones (like a horn or siren) is already a chord. Power chords are just two notes for that reason, the excessive overtones of a distorted guitar would make playing "correct" chords with 3 notes sound bad / messy.

[@robcat2075]

5:06 this is where a comparing/contrasting digital recording of the waveforms of the various horns would be revealing.

[@johnopalko5223]

Forget the minor third. I want a pair of horns that's tuned to a tritone.

[@echodelta9]

No, 4 horns for a minor flatted seventh, The blues chord. Trains use it.

[@ganaraminukshuk0]

@@user-vn7ky2xr1x isn't that what it literally is? (The tritone is also called the Devil's interval; I just remember it as that one pair of notes whose ratio of pitches is the square root of 2 that wants to resolve by having one or both notes move up or down a half step so that you get a major third or major fifth or something like that.)

[@johnopalko5223]

@@user-vn7ky2xr1x Thank you! That's the response I was hoping for! It's nice to know I'm not the only music theory geek around here. 😁

[@fletcher1710]

Summoning demons would be the least of your worries!

[@gcarlson]

If it wasn't for the devils interval, Black Sabbath would have never existed. And that would not be cool.

[@franceslarina5508]

"but if you do, you're my kind of weirdo" Me: (Thinks back to high school when I replaced my car's only horn with a junkyard klaxon...)

[@daniellewis5302]

How in the world did you do the best imitation of a Klaxon I’ve ever heard at 0:07?

[@ShoutingHarp]

He doesn't need a horn

[@LeCheeZy]

best ever

[@bananya6020]

I legitimately thought he had one in his hand under the desk or something.

[@paulocardoso9605]

Plot twist: the guy is a robot and the real Technology Connections was the horn all along

[@maximeduchalet4662]

I was impressed

[@asteriskpound]

"Through the magic of buying 2 of them ... This joke is never gonna get old" fast forward to 3 years later, still using the same joke, and it still isn't old.

[@Cyberplayer5]

0:35 To quote Men in Black: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it!"

[@Meeminator]

Josh Nordin awooooOOOOOoooga!

[@democratshateamerica8196]

I guess that relates to this video

[@EVAUnit4A]

@Cyberplayer5 That is one of my absolute favorite movie quotes _ever._

[@nathanalday3062]

"...should you put one on your vehicle." "But should you put one your vehicle?" Unexpected Vsauce.

[@BrianFullerton]

With the redirection that simultaneously recommends use of a relay controlled by the original horn circuit to avoid compatibility issues...nice touch.

[@GundamDroid]

lmao dammit the theme song just played in my head as he starts explaining

[@NightBazaar]

Frequently pops up from behind the table into camera view. "Hi, Michael here..."

[@tedk.9093]

@@NightBazaar What is this, a crossover episode?

[@amymoriyama6616]

Could you? Sure. Should you? That depends. Will you? Possibly. I know I will.

[@azur3125]

Alec's face every time he cracks that "through magic of buying two of the" :D 4:26

[@thomasfinch6292]

Thank you, KZbin algorithm, for answering a question I didn’t know I had

[@AssemblerGuy]

Imagine hearing this noise for the first time in the distance without seeing the source of it, and having absolutely zero idea about what sounds like that. A week or so after hearing it for the first time, I happened to go to the local small mall, just as a vintage car drove into the parking lot, doing it's Å-RØØØØØ-GAAH!

[@KVergara]

Text: Noise warning! Me: Ehh, the other ones sounded okay so this one probably won't be so ba-

[@leechowning2712]

And it was at that moment his eyes crossed. This is why I mute it and watch him suffer.

[@DryPaperHammerBro]

AHOOOGA

[@PanduPoluan]

Rest in peace, anonymous KZbin viewer with the blown out eardrums...

[@aidenbuchler4202]

Same.

[@botigamer9011]

Holy fuck! this thing is loud!

[@exipolar]

Wife comes home cranky after a bad rain storm. “I guess I’m gonna go bookmark this video about car horns, and save it for later”

[@exipolar]

No, i just didn’t have my headphones in xD

[@5roundsrapid263]

4:58 Maybe her diaphragm needs a bumpy ride. That usually cheers up my wife.

[@davincent98]

@@5roundsrapid263 giggity

[@LadyMoonstar6601]

1:21 love what you did there bro

[@MigunoOS]

“Submarines are legally required to have on them” Crap I need to add one on my flex seal colors submarine

[@speckofdignity2487]

6:27 this just reminds me of my parents old car when we lived in Pennsylvania, it’s horn didn’t work, and for some reason couldn’t just be fixed. It needed a horn to pass state inspection though, so the mechanic just rigged up a new horn that for some reason had a button that you could either reach down with your hand to hit, or reach up with your leg, but it was incredibly easy to bump with your left knee in such a tiny car (especially since my parents are both over 5’10”) the amount of times someone accidentally honked when getting in and out of that car was ridiculous

[@trainsntile]

LOL!!!

[@jameshamilton2480]

"It appears to run on some form of electricity"

[@subduedreader5627]

"Well, you're not wrong..."

[@Magnitude7]

I understood that reference

[@Sick-cada]

The perfection of your verbal impression of the horn really caught me of guard in the first 10 seconds of the video. Was NOT expecting such a good sound.

[@jimbartosevich498]

"Not only is it incredibly silly...." Are you trying to talk me out of it? Cause you're doing the opposite.

[@mennolente4807]

I am silly! And don't call me incredible.

[@michaelesposito2629]

He said tremendously silly

[@mennolente4807]

@@michaelesposito2629 Not only am I silly, but my looks are tremendously average.

[@afroize]

My dad bought one for our truck when I was a kid and he scared the fuck outta me, ever since then I wanted one 😂😂

[@soylentgreenb]

Can't threaten me with a good time.

[@_JayRamsey_]

"Layered sounds can be difficult to decipher and I'm not a *proctologist* .”

[@brickshitter8015]

I mean, he's not wrong.

[@Horny_Fruit_Flies]

I'm not a proctologist either.

[@misterkaos.357]

Vegeta is tho

[@figboot]

for anyone out of the loop, a proctologist is an ass doctor / specialist

[@---cr8nw]

That one had me rolling.

[@alexdamaceno]

A music theory snob would come here and say: “two notes doesn’t make a chord, but an INTERVAL”

[@md_vandenberg]

Good thing there's no accursed music theory snobs lurking around here!

[@caseymcmurtry2124]

This music theory snob always thought a car horn sounded like the 5th and 3rd of a major cord... I just don't hear a minor chord at all.

[@nuberiffic]

@@caseymcmurtry2124 The 3rd and 5th of a major chord form a minor dyad. You sure, you're a theory snob? ;)

[@Daniel-oq7xy]

@@caseymcmurtry2124 the interval of those two notes is a minor 3rd. Take a Cmaj chord, C-E-G. C to E is a major third, which gives the chord its quality. E to G is a minor third. The inverse is true of minor chords. Cmin is C-Eb-G, C to Eb is a minor third, and Eb to G is a major third. Other cases include diminished triads, which are two minor 3rds (C-Eb-Gb for example) and augmented triads, which are two major 3rds on top of each other (like C-E-G#)

[@cr4shmycar118]

Not a music theory person, just a guitar noob here: what about power chords?

[@JBHUTT09]

One of my favorite things about this channel is the thinly veiled contempt he has for the audience. It's half a bit and half genuine dread of having to deal with online disagreements because they can be so tiring even in the best of cases. I absolutely love it.

[@sunharmonics5490]

2:00 - Potentially interesting bit of music theory here. The minor third set up this way is something many people actually hear as part of a major chord - in particular, we hear it as the third and the fifth (mi - sol) in the chord, and if you listen carefully you can totally hear the root note (do) being played underneath, but that's entirely a psycho-acoustic phenomenon! Here we have F4 and Ab4 sounding through the speakers, which are two prominent overtones in the harmonic series based on a fundamental Db2. For whatever reason (probably because there aren't many pure sine waves in nature), the brain takes the two pitches which are actually sounding and it will infer the lower pitches in the harmonic series (Db2, Db3, Ab3, and Db4), which are perceived by the listener even though they aren't actually being sounded. If you have a hard time hearing it, play a Db underneath the two tones - it's like one of those weird magic eye paintings where once you 'see' it, it's hard not to notice it.

[@paavobergmann4920]

Jup. Also, I think I heard that in some (most) countries, emergency vehicles have multiple horns (2+) that are tunes at dissonant intervals that do not occur in any naturla harmonics series, so they a) stand out from any ambient noise, no matter what circumstances and Doppler effects are at play, b) they simply annoy the frak out of you and can hardly be ignored, and c) they produce a lot of Schwebung, which adds considerably to the generall anoyingness of the sound. In my country, I believe Ambulance and Firefighter horns are tuned in a tritonus, or or 2 tritonuses, a half-step apart, something pretty close to that, and they feature 2 sets of horns actually: 1) a set of big, loud, annoying disc horns that serve as a gentle reminder that there is actually an Ambulance speeding towards you in a city. These are the ones that are usually run, although the driver needs clearance from dispatch to actually engage them, but then he can basically honk on his own on approach to any crossroads, or just leave them running if the terrain is difficult and /or the road full. 2) A set of nightmarishly loud and bone-shakingly annoying horns run by pressured air. These can totally freak you out, and are usually not allowed to be used in cities (it´s an offence, actually), except for extremely urgent situations, but they come in handy if you are speeding along a country road at night in the fog. These, however, do carry the risk that whatever is in the road freezes up in terror and you slam into it. That actually happened a couple of times.

[@saganandroid4175]

What the hell did you just say?

[@Bull3tBikes]

Nerd alert

[@pgramsey1]

@@Bull3tBikes I'm pretty sure that nerd alert is not legally required in the comments section of a Technology Connections video.

[@scottasin]

I just figured it was because, at least in Western countries, a minor 3rd would generally be considered more aggressive/angry/associated with an emotion that would cause a defensive reaction. If the point is to make you understand that there is potential danger, a minor chird would produce that more effectively than a major one.

[@TheLunaLockhart]

you say "don't put this in your car" but I'm going to figure out a way to hook like 4 of these up exclusively for the event of a break-in, and they're all gonna be pointed at the driver's seat

[@arrivedknight7632]

Robber: breaks into car Car horns: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*

[@JodyBruchon]

I have a Peterbilt truck horn I was going to install somewhere hidden under my vehicle...

[@pteppig]

@Stock Name most times, there is plenty of space under the seat

[@TheLunaLockhart]

@Daniel Ashar bin Mohd Fraziali * "can you please sign your name for us?" "DO YOU HAVE A PEN" "I think we have our suspect"

[@alt8791]

“They can’t drive the car if their eyeballs are liquified!”

[@kareemalmond]

0:07 i wonder how many times he practiced that sound to make it near perfect

[@Niemelan1106]

Sounded damn near perfect 🤣

[@marcblanchet678]

@@Niemelan1106 whats this "damn near" nonsense?

[@nejiross]

“No effort november.” Very catchy wording and also a genius way to sort of have a small'ish break while still cranking out good content. You are an absolute success with your channel of ideas. Keep staying in the game as you always do my friend! We all appreciate you!