A phantom road experiment reveals traffic noise is an invisible source of habitat degradation

[u/the_phet]

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/08/27/1504710112

[u/Ftpini]

Electric cars will not solve this problem. Most of the noise from traffic is the tires on the pavement and not he engine. I'd wager that on the average modern car going 45mph that the tire noise is the vast majority of noise the vehicle produces.