Vehicle horn Several languages have either borrowed or transcribed the name into their lexicons. In Japanese, the word refers to car horns in general, and in verb form () refers to sounding the horn. This is also true in languages such as French (), Italian (), Dutch (), Russian (), Polish (), Spanish (), Romanian (), Czech (), Turkish (), Indonesian (), and Korean (). In countries applying the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, usage of audible warnings is limited, and allowed only in two cases: Vehicle horn A horn is a sound-making device that can be equipped to motor vehicles, buses,
Siren (alarm) Siren (alarm) A siren is a loud noise-making device. Civil defense sirens are mounted in fixed locations and used to warn of natural disasters or attacks. Sirens are used on emergency service vehicles such as ambulances, police cars, and fire trucks. There are two general types: pneumatic and electronic. Many fire sirens (used for calling the volunteer fire fighters) serve double duty as tornado or civil defense sirens, alerting an entire community of impending danger. Most fire sirens are either mounted on the roof of a fire station or on a pole next to the fire station. Fire sirens can