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It's more that it's a lot easier to hear the tires with no combustion engine chugging away.
by EdwardDiego 2y ago
It's more that it's a lot easier to hear the tires with no combustion engine chugging away.
- shiroiushi 2y agoNot really. Go stand next to a highway sometime: the vast majority of the noise you're hearing is from tires, not engines. You'll notice the engine noise occasionally: it'll be from some moron who's modified their exhaust to be louder usually. With all the other cars, you're just hearing tire noise.
- Tempest1981 2y agoI figured the ratio was different inside the car. Which is what buyers care about.
- bitsinthesky 2y agoYou are correct. “Karl Fundkvist, a design engineer at Goodyear who specializes in acoustics. At low speeds, the engine and exhaust system are the primary sources of noise, but at about 35 mph tire noise comes into play. At freeway speeds, the tires account for about 60% of the noise a typical car makes, Fundkvist said.” https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-may-12-hy-wheels12-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-may-12-hy-wheel...
- EdwardDiego 2y agoThey're not, you're not. As my comment (nor the sentence in question) was obviously not referring to the noise heard by others, but rather by people _in_ the car.
- EdwardDiego 2y agoI'm talking about the internal experience, which is presumably what Honda is trying to optimise.
- FireBeyond 2y agoMy last two cars have had acoustic/noise dampening to the point where one of them (Audi) even pumps engine noise into the cabin at a low level (and it's not a particularly quiet engine - twin turboed 2.9L V6).