Sentences with phrase «reduce highway noise»
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Many protected areas already use noise - reducing strategies, like operating shuttles to reduce traffic or concentrating highways and flight paths into «noise corridors.»
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«Closing the fabric sun shade reduced the noise a little bit, but it was still a loud highway ride,» he added.
As copy editor Rusty Blackwell observed, «It seems that the highway mileage could be boosted significantly - and overall noise reduced at the same time - if Mazda made fifth and sixth gears a bit taller.
Wind noise and secondary vibrations are drastically reduced, and while some highway patter still enters the cockpit at high speeds, it never becomes obtrusive.
ROWLAND HEIGHTS, Calif. — Deputy Federal Highway Administrator David S. Kim today joined state and local officials to cut a ceremonial ribbon to open the Nogales Street Grade Separation Project, which will improve safety, reduce noise and emissions, and enhance freight movement in Los Angeles County.
The other upshots are shorter initial gears for better acceleration feel and taller top gears for better highway fuel economy and reduced engine noise.
Additional insulation and aerodynamic tweaks to the Civic Type R help reduce in - cabin noise on the highway even further.
The company says that cabin noise has been reduced by approximately 25 percent on highways.
Further, to maximize efficiency, the system can direct more available torque to the rear wheels during steady - state highway cruising for reduced drivetrain frictional losses and noise.
Four overdrive ratios benefit highway driving while also reducing overall noise, vibration and harshness.
At typical highway cruising speeds, the new Boxster displays greater refinement than the car it replaces; mechanical, road and wind noise are all reduced with its excellent new cloth roof in place.
A unique set of two overdrive ratios improve highway fuel economy and reduce overall noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) levels.
New door seals help reduce seal «pull - away» at highway speeds, which can cause wind noise.
The silencer is also aerodynamically shaped, another Civic first, to help improve airflow underneath the vehicle, helping to improve fuel efficiency, reduce emissions, and further reduce air turbulence - inducing noise at highway speeds.
The low operating speed range also reduces noise and provides a quiet cabin environment at highway speeds.
Road noise is significantly reduced and Subaru has worked to tune out certain frequencies to make conversation or listening to music at highway speeds more comfortable.