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Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces by dns_snek on Friday May 10, 2024 @06:38AM (#40317308)
Only at very low speeds, past 30km/h (18mph) the noise from the tyres starts to approach or surpass the noise from the engine so they're nearly equivalent.
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Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces by harywilke on Friday May 10, 2024 @07:08AM (#40317526)
There are efforts to attack the car tyre noise problem by grinding groves into the surface of the road. it's called "Next Generation Concrete Surface" I remember hearing about it on the "Twenty Thousand Hertz" podcast [0] [0] https://www.20k.org/episodes/sonicutopia
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Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces by PeterStuer on Friday May 10, 2024 @07:21AM (#40317621)
We had grooved concrete here some decades ago. Luckily they got rid of those as the noise was much worse than normal surfaces.
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Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces by rplnt on Friday May 10, 2024 @06:57AM (#40317429)
Yes, but then there are few idiots with modified cars (or most motorbikes in general) that are orders of magnitudes louder and can be heard from kilometers away.
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