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In my experience (living a mile away from a motorway), most of the noise is caused by the wheel bearings of badly maintained lorries instead of tires. One can u

In my experience (living a mile away from a motorway), most of the noise is caused by the wheel bearings of badly maintained lorries instead of tires. One can usually tell by the high pitched noise.

catalogia 6y ago
I'm surprised that noise propagates far enough for you to hear. In my experience, the noise that propagates furthest from roads is the low frequency tire rumble.
- sova 6y ago
  Hypothesis: you are both correct, your respective acoustic environs different
- jacquesm 6y ago
  Here it's the tires moving across the seams between adjoining panels on bridges that make the most noise, those you can pick up from very far away.