Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud

Re:Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud by Mawr on Friday May 19, 2023 @09:16AM (#36001560)

There's a key relationship you're missing here. The closer a car is to humans, the slower it will drive. The slower it drives, the more important engine noise is.

A car going 50km/h+ is on some sort of a highway, where noise and pollution are less relevant. It's the cars going <50km/h on residential streets that cause problems.

Empirically, engine noise dominates then. The difference between ICEs and EVs passing by is staggeringly obvious.

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Re:Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud by Mawr on Thursday May 25, 2023 @10:55PM (#36079215)

It's the stroads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM ("Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) [ST05]")

Turns out when you design a road for high-speed driving, people will drive fast on it.

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