ABSTRACT

Although the vehicle horn is a minimal audible unit for communication, we will show that its uses are impressively varied. Drawing upon a corpus of video recordings from dashcams, we show how drivers use the horn for creating awareness; how they target particular vehicles; and how they use it for warnings, for complaints, and in instructing the seeing of an aspect of an ambiguous traffic object. Drivers’ use of the horn involves, first, their sounding it in recognizable relations to past, current, and projected configurations of traffic on the road. Second, it involves drivers manipulating the vehicle horn to create sounds of shorter and longer durations that can then produce hearably distinct actions. Third, and finally, the driver can use the horn as an initiating or responsive action in relation to the actions of other members of traffic. The data are from road users in Chennai, India.

摘要

尽管汽车喇叭是用于通信的最小声音单元，但我们将证明其用途令人印象深刻。利用行车记录仪的录像集，我们展示了驾驶员如何使用喇叭来提高意识。他们如何瞄准特定车辆；以及他们如何将其用于警告，投诉以及指导查看模糊交通对象的某个方面。驾驶员对号角的使用首先涉及到他们与道路上过去，当前和预计的交通配置之间可识别的关系。其次，它涉及驾驶员操纵汽车喇叭以产生持续时间越来越短的声音，然后可以产生听觉上不同的动作。第三，也是最后，驾驶员可以将喇叭用作相对于其他交通成员的动作的发起或响应动作。