Why are car horns push pads and not push buttons?

Dec 05, 2007 by SpiderPig | Posted in Other - Cars & Transportation

I know there is probably a good reason behind this, (easy access maybe?) but why are car horns a giant pad which requires pressure instead of a button like that of the cruise control system on your steering wheel?

Money. Easy to make, more expensive to fix...

Remember that you have a 1/4 stick of dynamite in the wheel as well....( airbag )

Journeying through Yahoo! | Dec 05, 2007

Train Horn Kits For Your Ride

www.airbagit.com - Train horn kits bring the real sound of a locomotive right to your vehicle. Get the loudest train horn kits you can buy with ...

Buying Cars In China Limited By: Lottery, Fitness Tests

20.05.12

The young Chinese couple have taken delivery of their first car, a Ford Mondeo midsize sedan, from a dealership in western Beijing. Juan Lu and her husband, Jun Gao, can't suppress their new-car grins. --> BEIJING -- Things most Americans take for granted aren't so easy in other countries including buying and owing a car. China is limting car buyers by lotteries and fitness test.

Source: WFMY News 2

Every Monday Matters - Don't HONK - It's all apart of life's pageant

by Paula Wessells

Common sounds include normal conversation (60 dBA), a noisy restaurant (85 dBA), a car horn (110 dBA), and a jackhammer (130 dBA). Only use your horn when it is reasonably necessary to ensure the safe operation of your vehicle. The law states that a driver of a motor vehicle, when reasonably necessary to insure safe operation, shall give audible warning with their horn. The law prohibits the use of horns for any other reason, except as part of an alarm system. Hearing loss is occurring at younger and younger ages. At 110 dBA, the maximum exposure time is 1 minute and 29 seconds before damage could occur. Noise-induced hearing loss, though preventable, is permanent....

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New York Daily News - May 20, 2012
Car horns make goats faint New York pedestrians have a hate-hate relationship with motorists who blow their horns the split second they don't agree with whatever's happening in front of their vehicles. Some level a well-placed kick to an offending car's quarter panel,

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Jalopnik - May 20, 2012
If you were shopping for a car based on how well you could haul your burlap sacks of doorknobs, french horns, and candelabras, I can't think of a more valuable resource. More importantly, I find the shapes strikingly beautiful to look at— they sort of

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Texas-based Sensory Assault prefers Mazda rotaries, and their main LeMons car is a Day-Glo pink FC RX-7 equipped with a generator-powered household air-conditioner, nautical air horns, a whiskey still, and an exhaust-powered rib smoker.

Cyclists Ride in Silence For Bike Safety Month
WHSV - May 20, 2012
"We take the right side and we let the cars pass us, but a lot of times cars aren't as kind or friendly to us. They honk their horns or lay on their horns which scares us more than anything," said Melia. As these cyclists hit the roads in a silent

Vineland Police
Vineland Daily Journal - May 20, 2012
When other motorists started to blow their horns, she got nervous, went through the intersection and collided with another car. • Jonathan K. Marion, 48, of Delmont was issued a summons for failure to stop following a collision at Wood and Fourth