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ncmncm · 2021-09-12 07:54:29

I hear mostly air and tires.

AmVess | karma 2749 | avg karma 4.2 · | 2021-05-21 15:19:55+00:00

I can't hear a single engine, but I can hear the hum of tires a long way away. Sure, I can sometimes hear a loud exhaust but those come and go in seconds. Tire noise is a 24x7 sound until winter (snow attenuates sound really well).

Source: typing this in a city with lots of roads and traffic.

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brokenmachine | karma 3145 | avg karma 0.82 · | 2018-11-29 02:52:36+00:00

Most of the noise from cars is from the tyres.

oittaa | karma 145 | avg karma 0.82 · | 2023-05-25 23:20:48

Outside the car the tires make quite a lot noise.

blktiger | karma 946 | avg karma 2.49 · | 2019-01-18 14:46:40+00:00

Less air polution for sure, but most of the noise from cars isn't from the engines. It's mostly the noise of tires traveling over pavement.

SkyPuncher | karma 7119 | avg karma 2.9 · | 2024-05-10 13:14:48

We live on a semi-main road. Normal engines aren’t really noticeable or annoying. Nearly all of the road noise is generated by tires with a fraction coming from large truck engines and vehicles with broken exhausts.

Tires are shockingly loud.

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bryanlarsen | karma 33883 | avg karma 3.16 · | 2019-03-15 13:41:46+00:00

Unfortunately tire noise contributes about 50% of the volume.

asutekku | karma 1384 | avg karma 2.69 · | 2020-07-11 17:04:20+00:00

Most of the time on certain environments you don’t hear the cars motors at all, all you hear are the tires having a contact with the ground.

zip1234 | karma 2460 | avg karma 2.5 · | 2022-05-20 08:20:13

Just a normal car makes an immense amount of noise. Especially at speed--tire noise.

oblio | karma 25694 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2022-06-14 16:40:52

Do you have numbers of that? Tires and drag cause a lot of noise.

andbberger | karma 1725 | avg karma 1.89 · | 2021-12-25 20:12:37

nah tires are quite loud

ricardobayes | karma 1788 | avg karma 1.58 · | 2023-12-18 02:53:18

Unless you have a souped up engine/exhaust, most of the sound of a car comes from the tires rolling (at highway speed).

sjg007 | karma 6164 | avg karma 0.98 · | 2021-05-21 15:52:48

Tires are an issue but diesels engine trucks and semis are audible. Also some times regular gas customers have modified exhausts. Tire noise is higher frequency though.

Jemm | karma 679 | avg karma 1.3 · | 2019-07-01 00:06:48

I find that tire noise is enough to alert me even at very low speeds. Modern tires are stupid loud.

shiroiushi | karma 2382 | avg karma 1.5 · | 2024-06-13 00:57:11

Not really. Go stand next to a highway sometime: the vast majority of the noise you're hearing is from tires, not engines. You'll notice the engine noise occasionally: it'll be from some moron who's modified their exhaust to be louder usually. With all the other cars, you're just hearing tire noise.

flohofwoe | karma 17782 | avg karma 3.67 · | 2023-05-15 06:19:01

Isn't it mainly tire- and wind-noise that dominates a car's sound emission? (unless it's a sports car where the engine noise is a 'design feature')

bmitc | karma 14276 | avg karma 3.06 · | 2023-10-01 16:58:57

> the noise from cars is mostly friction and turbulence

Agreed. I can't even hear the engine in my car on the highway over tire and wind noise.

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hamandcheese | karma 4274 | avg karma 3.04 · | 2017-10-13 16:21:45+00:00

At higher speeds I believe road noise from tires is the dominating noise factor.

catalogia | karma 2468 | avg karma 1.07 · | 2020-07-11 17:30:44+00:00

I'm surprised that noise propagates far enough for you to hear. In my experience, the noise that propagates furthest from roads is the low frequency tire rumble.

lm28469 | karma 12135 | avg karma 2.53 · | 2023-05-15 07:01:29

Nah clearly not, I'm on the 7th floor of my building right now I can hear engines every few seconds, I can't hear tires/wind. Windows are closed