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Photo credit: Julia Avamotive by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition In a recent article about creative ways to use a vehicle key fob, Readers Digest recommended using a car’s panic alarm to enhance personal safety in isolated places, and to scare...
Photo credit: Karolina Grabowska by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition In March of 2023, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Anna Eshoo introduced the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Modernization Act. The bicameral piece of...
Photo credit: dcbel by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition A special issue of Noise News International, published on May 12, 2023, features an article that asks, "Will EVs Make Our Cities Quieter?" Authors Erik Bühlmann, Daniel Schweizer and Felix...
Photo credit: Q K from Pixabay by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition When a reader sent a question about sound to The Conversation’s Curious Kids column, editors turned to environmental epidemiologist Erica D. Walker, PhD, to serve as an expert....
Photo credit: Dodge by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition At Dodge Speed Week in Pontiac, Michigan on August 17th, automaker Stellantis introduced its Dodge Charger Daytona SRT concept car, calling it the first all-electric muscle car. While a press...
Photo credit: Life Of Pix by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition John Seabrook’s New Yorker article about branding with acoustic vehicle alert sounds covers some of the details in my recent blog post and earlier article in the Right to Quiet...
This photo by Pete Souza is in the public domain by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition A year ago I wrote an article that asked, Will pedestrian warning sounds be discernible? I raised concerns about the intended purpose of the Pedestrian Safety...
Photo credit: Scott Beale licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition People living close to construction sites attest to the stress caused by piercing backup beeps intruding in their space. With so many people now working...
Image courtesy of the City of Red Deer by Jeanine Botta, MPH, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition Earlier this month, Arline Bronzaft wrote about Operation Quiet-Down, a program introduced by New London Police to address increasing noise complaints that followed the...