If people are wondering how traffic noise is so deadly, it’s usually things like hypertension and the effects of chronic sleep disturbance
14.9dB is a BIG increase.
Yes and no. A 14.9db increase of 85db background noise is big, while a 14.9db increase of 40db background noise certainly is not.
Decibels is logarithmic and there is little information in this study about environmental ambiance.
One graph starts at 40db, which indicates data was collected at roughly the noise level of a refrigerator. A casual conversation would roughly qualify as “noise.”
Yeah I was going to put the background reference in but the study didn’t have it. I feel that’s important.
I fucking hate it.
@daniel_callahan Regular cars are bad enough, but then there are those fart cars with crazy loud exhaust, that are for some strange reason legal to drive. The same can be said about fart bikes. We don’t need these fart machines in the streets, there is no good reason why they should be making so much noise and they should be banned.
Sorry for the rant, I once lived near a bike club and the fart boys were robbing me of 1-2 of sleep each night…
@daniel_callahan This is wild! I mean, I hate traffic noise at least as much as most people, probably more, but that level of increase of mortality is… wow!
Sorry to be that guy but…
Danish study warns traffic noise
is killing peoplecorrelates with increased mortalityIt’s worth emphasizing that people are probably not being killed directly by noise. People who live near car noise probably live near cars. I imagine these cars are killing people more by violence, pollution/particulate, etc. than by noise alone.
