Study Show Quiet Cars Lead to More Speeding
September 25, 2008 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Automotive
Some perceptive (literally and disciplinary) scientists have scientifically proven something obvious: cars that are designed to be quiet inside make people drive faster.
In their study Horswill and Plooy presented participants with pairs of video-based driving scenes and asked them to judge their speed.
The participants heard either in-car noise at the level it occurred in the real world, or reduced in volume by 5 decibels.
Full article available here.
Interesting. I am seriously into electric scooters. And they’re as quiet as anything. I do find myself going faster than I realise. It’s only when the wind noise kicks in that it dawns on me.