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In France I see (and hear) more and more use of a special type of warning device, "le cri de lynx" that reduces sonic pollution by building sites. https://m.yo

• lostlogin 9mo ago
  Sadly I don’t speak French and Searching for whatever this is isn’t working. If it’s noise cancelling it sounds amazing. Can you further expand?
  • tom_ 9mo ago
    It's the noise you hear at about the one minute mark when the digger is reversing: https://youtu.be/BljL3XO0fyg?t=59 https://youtu.be/BljL3XO0fyg?t=59 Actual cri du lynx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtsdVQWGibQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtsdVQWGibQ
    • lostlogin 9mo ago
      Oh this is horrible. We don’t want people run over by reversing vehicles, but also, if I had to listen to that every day, I’d leap in front of them.
      • slobotron 9mo ago
        IMO, in person it's much nicer on the ears than the old single-tone beep that they used to have. It's less jarring and easier to locate where the noise is coming from, ye olde beep seemed to come from everywhere at once.
• VageGast 9mo ago
  It does remind me of a video from Tom Scott about the use of white noise for reversing trucks. It has multiple benefits over the old beeping sound, including being easily able to hear the direction the sound is coming from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa28lIGuxq8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa28lIGuxq8