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Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces by nixass on Friday May 10, 2024 @12:47PM (#40321090)
If you're nearby any moderately busy road it's not the engine what makes noise but the tires and then air going around the car. Engine/exhaust noise is a problem but easy to solve
Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces by lolinder on Friday May 10, 2024 @02:26PM (#40322242)
> Engine/exhaust noise is a problem but easy to solve

It's easy from a technical standpoint but practically impossible from a human one. The vast majority of people simply don't notice or care that some large percentage of vehicles are intentionally modified to be louder than the legal maximum. Police won't enforce it, and most citizens barely register the noise as present, much less a problem.

Banning ICE vehicles altogether may very well be the only thing that actually gets the problem solved, since that actually has more momentum behind it than enforcement of existing noise regulations does.

Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces by ldoughty on Friday May 10, 2024 @03:16PM (#40322836)
I'm not sure "large percentage" is a statement I'd agree with, my searching skills are failing me, do you have any kind of source for that? I'd be shocked if it was over 5%...
Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces by cassianoleal on Friday May 10, 2024 @03:33PM (#40322983)
I live near a medium-busy street. I haven't seen actual numbers but it wouldn't surprise me if at peak hours there are over 100 cars passing per minute.

If 5% of those are overly loud, that's an average of a very loud noise every 3 seconds, and most of them will take somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds to come and finally go away. If you don't think that's large, we have very different noise thresholds.

Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces by lolinder on Friday May 10, 2024 @04:00PM (#40323242)
I guess "large" is subjective. 1-5% is the ballpark I have in my head based on experience, which qualifies as "large" to me when I get passed by thousands of cars a day.

The hard numbers I'm aware of are about motorcycles, which have much higher rates of illegal modifications than other vehicles. This source documents a bunch of other sources, with estimates ranging from 40-70%:

https://noisefree.org/sources-of-noise/motorcycles/

Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces by smegger001 on Saturday May 11, 2024 @12:46AM (#40326018)
People that purposefully install loader than necessary pipes on their vehicles ought to be forced to stay awake by having a marching band play nonstop in their bedroom until the loud exhaust pipe is removed
Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces by llsf on Friday May 10, 2024 @03:27PM (#40322935)
I found this to be true for cars and maybe trucks, but not for motorbikes. Some extreme motorbikes rattle all parked cars and trigger alarms.

When Harley-Davidson and other moppet/scooters would be all electric, that would be quitter.

Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces by lukan on Friday May 10, 2024 @04:36PM (#40323532)
"When Harley-Davidson and other moppet/scooters would be all electric, that would be quitter."

Not that easy, the electric Harley is intentionally louder than the combustion version - because people want them loud.

(I am not a fan of banning in general, but banning noise is fine by me)

Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces by BeFlatXIII on Friday May 10, 2024 @01:38PM (#40321664)
I believe it bas to do more with vehicular speed than business. At low speeds, engine noise dominates; on a freeway, it’s the tyres.
Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces by pixl97 on Friday May 10, 2024 @12:49PM (#40321107)
Yep, there are plenty of ICE vehicles that are quite. A large number of cars/small trucks that are loud are designed that way because the roaring engine noise sells the car.
Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces by mrtesthah on Friday May 10, 2024 @02:45PM (#40322464)
Re:Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces by Alupis on Friday May 10, 2024 @06:58PM (#40324542)
> If you're nearby any moderately busy road it's not the engine what makes noise but the tires and then air going around the car.

You cannot even hear modern ICE cars running unless you are really close to them. My neighbor's garage door opener is louder than his ICE car...

Road noise is tires/air like you mentioned. Not a real way to deal with that.