Comment on A nightly Waymo robotaxi parking lot honkfest is waking San Francisco neighbors
tyler@programming.dev 5 weeks agoI wonder if Colorado has required this because I know when I was looking at apartments about 11 years ago they told us the decibel reduction of the windows and doors in the apartments we looked at that were near highways. And then a few years later in 2016 when we were house shopping they told us the sound reduction for the houses that were near major roads. I’ll have to look it up and see if it’s a law or not.
MagicShel@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
I don’t think I’d want to live anywhere it is necessary to worry about sounds reduction levels. Wow.
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
You have never been to a car centric city? Cars are loud af. Noise pollution from cars is so bad that studies have been able to link living next to higher traffic roads with poorer health outcomes
MagicShel@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
I’ve visited NY and Chicago, but I guess my digs were nice enough not to notice. And I used to live 75 minutes (assuming no traffic lol) from DC—far enough away that I didn’t have to deal with that kind of thing. Just like maybe some highway noise from far away.
I did once have a townhouse that had a rail track in the back yard, but I know what I was getting in that case. It was only noisy when there was a train.
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Interesting, I’d guess that you are better than average at tuning traffic noises out then. I am probably worse than average myself as traffic would constantly wake me up when I lived downtown.
tyler@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Yeah we got a place where I can sit outside in the sun and hardly hear anything. But really if you get a single family home anywhere within a few hundred feet of an artery you’re going to be dealing with road noise. So it applies almost in every city in America.