Road Noise

June 7th, 2016

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Noise levels inside a car can come from many different exterior factors, as well as from the car’s mechanical componentry.  Are there ways to nullify the racket?  When some cars get up and going they are just purely noisy contraptions.  The road and wind racket inside a noisy car’s interior can be almost deafening; and even at the best of times, your conversations are kept short, sharp and to the point.  Any lengthy journeys inside the worst culprits can be painful and wearisome.

Not so long ago some researchers in Germany thoroughly tested a range of cars to see which ones were the noisiest cars to travel inside, and which cars were the quietest.  This sort of information would be handy when one might be considering purchasing a potential vehicle for commuting purposes – particularly when it will be a car that you frequently spend long hours journeying in.  What the researchers came up with is amusing to read.  The noisiest was a Porsche 911, but here were the top 30 noisiest cars they tested:

The following were the quietest cars the team tested, and the top positions were taken by the BMW 730d, Jaguar XJ and Audi A8:

What interests me the most was the lack of Japanese cars in the top 30 quietest cars?  I always thought the Honda Legend was remarkably quiet.  Maybe, they didn’t add this model to the list because of the German bias?

There is such a thing as road cancellation technology, where new acoustic technology helps to nullify road noise in cars.  Audio giant Harman and British automobile-maker Lotus have recently collaborated to produce the Road Noise Cancellation (RNC) system.  By fitting accelerometers into the chassis of the vehicle, these gadgets identify and monitor the frequencies of unwanted tyre noise and relay the information back to a main control unit in the body of the car.  An algorithm in the controller creates inverse sound waves through the car’s speakers to cancel out the road noise.  With rolling road noise cancelled out, the cabin is a more relaxed and peaceful place for the driver and passengers to be.

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