reid0 t1_jdlvw30 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 10:58 AM

Reply to comment by RevolutionaryCoyote in Road Noise Makes Your Blood Pressure Rise – Literally | Study shows the sound of traffic is associated with increased risk of hypertension, calls for public health measures to reduce noise exposure by Hrmbee

Sure, but I don’t hear any road noise from my apartment except for the odd motorcyclist or car tearing down the street at full throttle, and it’s definitely not the tyres that I’m hearing.

So yep, quieter tyres are great, but EVs’ lack of an obnoxiously and unnecessarily loud exhaust is definitely a big bonus, too.

RevolutionaryCoyote t1_jdmpzt6 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 3:30 PM

I have never used the Common Noise Assessment Method that they referred to, since it sounds like a European thing. But I used to work in noise control in the US and even published research on traffic noise modeling.

It sounds like this model would have assessed your home as having low noise impacts, since it's pretty sporadic. They usually are based on average daily traffic counts.

This research is establishing a causal relationship between the steady background noise and increased hypertension. Transient noise from horns or an obnoxious motorcycle are related, but outside of what they were looking into.