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SkyPuncher 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces

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.

photonbeam 7 months ago [–]

Smooth roads really help with this, but no one seems to care

SkyPuncher 7 months ago | [–]

Smooth roads come with grip problems - especially in the rain.

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