Autonomous vehicles have eyes—cameras, lidar, radar. But ears? That’s what researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology’s Oldenburg Branch for Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology ...

Cities aren’t noisy, cars are. And we need to fix that if we are to retain our sanity, says one of the leading scholars in ...

Electric vehicle engines are almost silent. They’re so quiet, automakers have to add sounds to warn pedestrians and cyclists that EVs are approaching. To avoid collisions, the National Highway Traffic ...

This patent describes a system that would detect tunnels and automatically lower windows, engage sport mode, and downshift ...

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Future Porsches could automatically roll down the windows and downshift when they detect a tunnel coming up. Nice.

Sound artist Nicola Di Croce wants cities to include sound in tactical urbanism projects. As Kea Wilson explains in ...