Why are European car horns honked louder than Asian ones?

While Asian-origin cars are often easy to honk, European-origin cars are often more difficult to honk.

Specifically, European car models such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, or Audi . are often very difficult to honk. When wanting to use the horn, the driver must use both hands, pressing hard on the middle of the steering wheel.

Meanwhile, car models from Asia such as Japan and Korea only require using the thumb to honk.

Explaining this, experts say , is because European car models are designed by manufacturers with horns according to European culture, habits and usage standards.

Asians often have a preference for using horns, while Europeans rarely honk when participating in traffic. Therefore, on the streets of European countries, it is rare to hear car horns. In particular, the act of honking loudly in European countries is discriminated against and strongly condemned.

Europeans are aware that the arbitrary use of car horns will cause noise pollution, which is harmful to the health of themselves and the community. This has created the culture of using car horns in Europe.

Understanding this problem, manufacturers design the horn on European car models to be very difficult to press, partly to limit drivers from honking and also to meet European usage habits.

European car horns are often harder and louder to press than Asian car horns. (Illustration photo).

Meanwhile, in Asia, the use of horns and honking has become so widespread that even honking indiscriminately makes traffic participants unable to distinguish the reason when they hear the horn. Therefore, the use of horns has become saturated and does not attract the attention of other drivers. Thus, the horn has lost some of its main function.

The reason is that there are too many vehicles on the streets , leading to a situation where vehicles move around haphazardly, causing congestion and chaos, forcing car drivers to use their horns a lot to ensure safety when participating in traffic.

And the abuse of honking over the years has become a common habit of the majority of people, because everyone wants to go fast, every vehicle wants to be given the right of way. And honking has become a tool, the only way out.