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>> that make the world look worse for everybody in exchange for making someone money. There are places where billboards act as rather effective sound barriers,
by sandworm101 1y ago
>> that make the world look worse for everybody in exchange for making someone money.
There are places where billboards act as rather effective sound barriers, shielding quiet neighborhoods from road noise.
- FranzFerdiNaN 1y agoThen build a sound barrier , no need for an advertisement on them. Or decorate it with art if you want to make them less ugly.
- wiseowise 1y agoFound marketing director of an ad agency.
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- wiseowise 1y agoIt's a joke, calm your knickers.
- anon7000 1y agoI highly doubt a billboard is thick or dense enough to effectively block freeway sound. It’s not like you have a seamless wall of billboards “protecting” a neighborhood
- rascul 1y agoIt'll block some. It's not generally big enough to be effective.
- sandworm101 1y agoA solid, tall, wall of wood ... Like maybe a fence? Many small towns put up fences to keep highway noise out. The residents don't see the billboards, not from their side. Only the drivers ripping by notice them.
- ptero 1y agoTrees, dissipating sound instead of reflecting it, are even more effective.
- vntok 1y agoHow can dissipating be more effective than reflecting? Wouldn't you need multiple dense rows of trees to reach the efficacy of a single pane of sound-reflecting material?
- mensetmanusman 1y agoImpedance matching (dissipation) converts more energy into heat while also reflecting and transmitting energy as sound waves.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoThis is some weird shilling for capitalism or weird devil's advocate tbh. Don't feel like you have to find solutions or positive sides to everything you see on the internet. Billboards are visual noise, road noise is audible noise, neither is desireable.
- sandworm101 1y agoAnd I'm sure the rural landowners dont care a jot about the opinions of drivers flying past on the highway. Nobody is going to pay them to not put up ads.
- antisol 1y agoDo you know what's better on those surfaces than ads? Art. Or nothing.