Do you enjoy listening to music while driving? Do you find radio
traffic information indispensable? Do you like to sing along with
whatever you like as you drive?
This book tells the fascinating story of how, over the course of
the twentieth century, we turned automobiles from intentionally
noisy contraptions into spheres of auditory privacy that make us
feel sound and safe. It explains how engineers in the automotive
industry found pride in making car engines quieter once they
realized that noise stood for inefficiency. And, after the
automobile had become a closed vehicle, it follows them as they
struggled against sounds audible within the car. The book also
traces how noise is linked both to fears - fears of noise-induced
fatigue, fears about the danger of the car radio and drivers'
attention spans - and to wants, exploring how drivers at one point
actually desired to listen to their cars' engines in order to
diagnose mechanical problems and how they now appreciate radio
traffic information. And it suggests that their disdain for the
ever-expanding number of roadside noise barriers made them long for
new forms of in-car audio entertainment.
This book also allows you to peep behind the scenes of
international standardization committees and automotive test
benches. What did and does the automotive industry do to secure the
sounds characteristic for their brands? Drawing on archives,
interviews, beautiful historical automotive ads, and writing from
cultural history, science and technology studies, sound and sensory
studies, this book unveils the hidden history of an everyday
phenomenon. It is about the sounds of car engines, tires, wipers,
blinkers, warning signals, in-car audio systems and, ultimately,
about how we became used to listening while driving.
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