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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Honk If There’s A Natural Disaster | Autopia | Wired.com

Honk If There’s A Natural Disaster | Autopia | Wired.com: "Autopia Planes, Trains, Automobiles and the Future of Transportation
Honk If There’s A Natural Disaster"

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Few things are more annoying than an endlessly honking horn. German scientists think that maddening sound is a great way to warn people of impending disasters.

The guys at the Fraunhofer Institute for Technological Trend Analysis are working on a way to use automobile horns to, in effect, crowdsource the network of emergency warning sirens that used to cover Germany. Such a system would cost next to nothing to adopt, they say, and could be introduced as early as next year.

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