The aero guys did a particularly nice job of managing wind noise around the mirrors.
Auto Wind Cut intelligently reduces wind noise without that annoying unnatural muting of sound.
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The headlights split and redirect airflow away from the door mirrors, reducing wind noise and drag.
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An innovative vortex-shedding roof-mounted antenna is one of many design elements utilized to help reduce wind noise.
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Each of the first 3, 000 will be driven 40 kilometers to check for rattles, wind noise and other problems.
On the road, the Volt is serenely quiet, without a hint of road or wind noise interfering in the cabin.
Sound is recorded in stereo, another feather in the Sensation's multimedia hat, though we found the phone unusually prone to picking up wind noise.
The cabin is pretty quiet although we did notice a little bit of wind noise coming from the driver-side frameless window in our test car.
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Toyota says it went to great lengths to cut vibrations and engine and wind noise by adding insulation in the floor and sound-deadening glass in the windshield.
Unlike the RX1, it didn't pick up any wind noise when filming outside nor did it suffer from the clicking noise problem that once plagued the 5N.
Wind noise was readily audible when filming outside, but the color reproduction was quite accurate, and the RX1 adjusted to varying amounts of light quickly on the fly.
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One of the biggest complaints we've had with the ContourHD line of cameras has been excessive wind noise at speed and, while the 1080p addressed that somewhat by allowing for reduced microphone sensitivity, it's still far more intrusive than on the Hero.
Not only is the motor quiet but the car has been meticulously designed to minimize wind and tire noise as well.
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The engineers have done a beautiful job with wind and tire noise, opting for big acoustic blankets in the wheel wells, which quelled the roar coming from our test car's 19-inch summer tires.
Industry group RenewableUK said its members took the noise from wind farms very seriously.
The case is being viewed as a test on the law relating to noise nuisance from wind turbines.
Today, on the long wraparound porch, the music of the wind chimes competes with the noise of the cars rushing by.
Noise pollution from wind turbines, free sunscreen for children and more ladies toilets at entertainment venues were some of the other petitions discussed at the morning's committee.
In the open-wheel race cars I had driven previously, wind buffets your helmet violently, and the noise is deafening--nothing relaxing about it.
Residents of Waubra, a town near Victoria's biggest wind generator, recently complained that low-frequency noise was causing headaches and earaches.
The spokeswoman added that wind direction was "a valid contributing factor" to noise.
"At the moment we are looking at various wind turbines as it is important to find out about noise and also the visual impact, " he added.
Moreover, the data could be useful in determining safe noise limits for other ocean-based equipment as well, ranging from offshore oil rigs to wind turbines to ocean freighters.
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