A great deal of engineering effort has gone into quieting the automobile over the past century.\u00a0 In most major cities, transportation noise is a huge contributor to environmental noise both outdoors and in (who doesn’t live near a road?)\u00a0 Vehicle acoustics is a primary focus of many current applied acoustics research programs, with the enthusiastic support of the auto industry.<\/p>\n
Even so, some would argue that these great successes in reducing vehicle noise have come at the expense of exhilaration; gunning your engine at a stop light just doesn’t give the thrill that it did in the days of the big block V8.<\/p>\n
For those of us that would occasionally like to hear what we’re driving (which yes, sometimes includes even noise-averse acousticians), a Swedish company has developed the SoundRacer<\/a>.\u00a0 This gizmo fits into your cigarette lighter socket, and using the socket voltage to sense engine RPM, broadcasts real-time sports car engine sound through your car stereo.\u00a0 Even if your “sports car” happens to be less than sporting<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A great deal of engineering effort has gone into quieting the automobile over the past century.\u00a0 In most major cities, transportation noise is a huge contributor to environmental noise both outdoors and in (who doesn’t live near a road?)\u00a0 Vehicle acoustics is a primary focus of many current applied acoustics research programs, with the enthusiastic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[49,50,30,43],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","tag-audio","tag-cars","tag-noise","tag-soundscapes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}