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Emergency sirens being so loud is an unfortunate consequence of how good sound isolation is in contemporary cars.

Unfortunately I don’t know of an easy solution to this. Perhaps vehicles should be required to rebroadcast emergency sirens internally? Or maybe it will solve itself when electric cars reduce road noise.




I wish the alternate-woop-and-ksssh had replaced the simple siren in more than just construction sites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cykmhi6bF4k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa28lIGuxq8




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