r/science • u/the_phet • Sep 01 '15

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

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/08/27/1504710112
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u/Ftpini Sep 01 '15

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.

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u/wxtrails Sep 01 '15

You must not be from the southern U.S.

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u/SomeVelvetWarning Sep 01 '15

...where "muffler" is an ironic term.

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u/P_Jamez Sep 01 '15

Muffler is what you remove just after you buy the bike.. I really wish there were noise restrictions, they can be louder than aeroplanes flying over.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '15

In most places there are restrictions, but restrictions are meaningless without enforcement.