Researchers consider replacing car horns with duck quacks because we live in 'Super Mario Kart'

If you've ever been forced to have a one-on-one confrontation with a duck, you know this: the duck is gonna win.

Sure, they might be smaller than you and have legs the size of a golf pencil on a diet. But their bark is mighty -- which is perhaps why many people apparently want to replace their loud, tooting car horns with the sound of a duck quacking.

Researchers at Soongsil University in Seoul, South Korea recently tested different car horn alternatives on 100 volunteers.

What they discovered will ... maybe weird you out.

Listeners were asked to rate car horn sounds according to their decibel and stress levels on a five point scale. Horns that most closely resembled a duck quack consistently performed the best.

Researchers were hoping to create a more soothing, yet still functional, alternative to the traditional toot-toot.

Full disclosure: As someone who lost a bag of Cheez-its to a duck during a devastating picnic attack in 2005, I'm probably not the best one to judge. I am, however, concerned that people underestimate the lethal danger ducks pose to the sandwich bread community. For many, including myself, the duck quack is triggering.

I guess we'll have to let the people (and the birds) decide.