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I find it fascinating that as a society, we allowed automobiles to pass close to homes I'm glad we are finally going to transition to EVs.. about time

7jjjjjjj 1y ago
At a distance, most of the noise from a car is road noise, not engine noise.
rebeccaskinner 1y ago
Unfortunately even without engine noise people will still install gigantic subwoofers in their car and roll around rattling windows. This has consistently been the biggest problem with my sleep for years, and nothing I've been able to do (including trying to move to different locations) has helped because they are so incredibly loud and prevalent these days.
- anal_reactor 1y ago
  I bought an apartment next to a cycling path that connects the area to the city centre and that was singlehandedly the biggest mistake of my life, because the path also allows mopeds, which have engines orders of magnitude louder than loudest cars. This is insanity. Thankfully, the city is planning to ban fossil-fuel mopeds within five years. They already started phasing them out, you can't register a new one, only old ones are allowed. These are going to be five very long years though. Also, it's a mostly black area, which means people hanging out and talking right in front of the apartment building, even though there's a public park five minutes of walk away. When I was searching for an apartment to buy, there was one on tenth floor, and I regret not buying that one, because I'd be shielded from all the noise on the street. I was fully conviced that I'd be able to stomach living in poorer area and wait for gentrification to happen. I can live with trash on the street. I can live with vandalism. I can live with beggars by the supermarket. I can live with theft and other crime. But the noise. The noise is fucking unbearable. My dream is to wait until the apartment doubles or triples in value, then sell it, and move to rural shithole where nobody lives.
  - rangestransform 1y ago
    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/let-brooklyn-be-loud/670600/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/let-bro... didn't you get the memo that wanting peace and quiet is racist and classist now?
    - anal_reactor 1y ago
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adonovan 1y ago
Yeah, it is sad to think how different things could have been, especially when you consider how loud/dangerous/toxic early cars were. On the other hand, before that, we (humans) allowed horses to shit (and decompose) in the streets, and long before that, we invited livestock to spend the winter in the same room. So the past wasn't idyllically clean or well organized either.
ojhughes 1y ago
In the UK there is a trend of modifying motorbike exhausts and you can hear them from a mile away.

7jjjjjjj 1y ago

At a distance, most of the noise from a car is road noise, not engine noise.

rebeccaskinner 1y ago

Unfortunately even without engine noise people will still install gigantic subwoofers in their car and roll around rattling windows. This has consistently been the biggest problem with my sleep for years, and nothing I've been able to do (including trying to move to different locations) has helped because they are so incredibly loud and prevalent these days.

anal_reactor 1y ago
I bought an apartment next to a cycling path that connects the area to the city centre and that was singlehandedly the biggest mistake of my life, because the path also allows mopeds, which have engines orders of magnitude louder than loudest cars. This is insanity. Thankfully, the city is planning to ban fossil-fuel mopeds within five years. They already started phasing them out, you can't register a new one, only old ones are allowed. These are going to be five very long years though. Also, it's a mostly black area, which means people hanging out and talking right in front of the apartment building, even though there's a public park five minutes of walk away. When I was searching for an apartment to buy, there was one on tenth floor, and I regret not buying that one, because I'd be shielded from all the noise on the street. I was fully conviced that I'd be able to stomach living in poorer area and wait for gentrification to happen. I can live with trash on the street. I can live with vandalism. I can live with beggars by the supermarket. I can live with theft and other crime. But the noise. The noise is fucking unbearable. My dream is to wait until the apartment doubles or triples in value, then sell it, and move to rural shithole where nobody lives.
- rangestransform 1y ago
  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/let-brooklyn-be-loud/670600/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/let-bro... didn't you get the memo that wanting peace and quiet is racist and classist now?
  - anal_reactor 1y ago
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adonovan 1y ago

Yeah, it is sad to think how different things could have been, especially when you consider how loud/dangerous/toxic early cars were. On the other hand, before that, we (humans) allowed horses to shit (and decompose) in the streets, and long before that, we invited livestock to spend the winter in the same room. So the past wasn't idyllically clean or well organized either.

ojhughes 1y ago

In the UK there is a trend of modifying motorbike exhausts and you can hear them from a mile away.