Why do e-bikes use bell instead of horn?

[Heatman]

From my experience of using bikes for years, all of their bells typically have a familiar sound that others can easily recognize as a bike bell. But I keep wondering why they don't have bikes use horn?

Could it be that there's a way they expect people to reach to bike bells and car horns differently?

 

[Shortie]

I feel you may have hit the nail on the head right there if I am honest. When it comes to a horn, you expect it on a car or even a vehicle on the road, but with a bell, many associate it with a bike, and with e-bikes being a lot more popular now, they will also be associated with e-bikes.

I don't know about anyone else, but a horn always scares me, so maybe the use of a bell is to make it less of a jumpscare, I suppose, compared to a horn.