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Re: Mercedes-Benz pre-safe sound

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Post by nradov »

userbinator wrote: post #85
cr0sh wrote: post #47

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I've heard that German luxury cars (what we consider them here in the USA) are more like what we think of Fords here; so common and normal, considered affordable. Or maybe just not "high end" due to being common? Again, though, only heard that - nothing to back it up. It also may be that because Mercedes and BMWs are "local brand" vehicles, there are more of them, and more mechanics out there able to service them? Wh…

It also may be that because Mercedes and BMWs are "local brand" vehicles, there are more of them, and more mechanics out there able to service them? Whereas (to them) foreign cars like American vehicles you have to take to special American automobile repair places (like we have European auto repair places here that specialize in those makes/models)? That's been true for taxis in the US for a long time --- which are u…

The Chevy Caprice and Ford Crown Victoria have been out of production for years so regardless of their advantages they won't be used as taxis much longer.

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Post by jansan »

gavia1 wrote: post #15
nradov wrote: post #10

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Unfortunately they don't devote any attention to longevity or serviceability. But yes the safety features are excellent.

Please provide some non-anecdotal evidence to this claim?

Look at the bottom of the doors of almost any Mercedes B-Class produced before 2009 and you will see brown corrosion traces. My B-Class (bought new in 2005) was literally falling apart from corrosion. They had massive quality problems in the early 2000s, with the B- and C-Class. I know this is my personal experience, but I will never be able to purchase any Mercedes car ever again.

Re: Mercedes-Benz pre-safe sound

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Post by gnicholas »

owenversteeg wrote: post #159

Am I the only one who listened to the video and didn't have anything happen with my tensor tympani? I can voluntarily control mine ("ear rumbling") so I know what it would feel /sound like.

Unless you played it pretty loud, nothing should happen. What speakers did you play it through, and at what volume?

Re: Mercedes-Benz pre-safe sound

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Post by gnicholas »

FYI, the pink noise sample in the video played back at 80 dB on my MBP (2017, 13") when I set the volume to max. I used an iPhone app to test the dB, and when I put the mic about an inch from the speaker, it registered about 80 dB.

Back where I was sitting, it was much much lower, and definitely didn't affect my hearing.

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Post by fgonzag »

fyfy18 wrote: post #97
anyfoo wrote: post #51

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While it’s true that BMWs and Mercedes are extremely common (and by feeling also less of a “luxury brand”), at least in Munich, I’ve rarely seen a BMW taxi. They’re not all Mercedes, but I’d say that the majority easily is. So there has to be reasons for that, but the potential existence of special maintenance packages for taxis could easily be one of them.

My observation of Germans is that they have a strong sense of nationalism towards their own car brands, so I'm not surprised taxi drivers use a local brand rather than Prius like the rest of Europe. As others have said older Mercedes had very good reliability, so that probably still rubs off on how people feel about cars today. I'd consider BMW more sporty than luxury.

BMW is local to Munich though. So they'd lean more towards BMW than Mercedes. I'm thinking it might be Mercedes having more leg room or being more comfortable on the back than BMW, which have always been marketed as driver centric.

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Post by shawabawa3 »

0xfaded wrote: post #132
GeorgeWBasic wrote: post #125

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I recall reading that discussion when it was first posted. There was something I didn't understand at the time, and now that it's brought up again, I want to ask: He mentions there being a fairly short window in which an ENT physician can try to treat the damage, after which no treatments will be possible. I thought all hearing damage was permanent, always, notwithstanding the potential new advances in growing the ha…

This comes up fairly often on tinnitus fora. Basically there is some "consensus" that a shot of steroids within a very short window, ideally less than 24 hours, can help. Unfortunately, the most common response to damaging one's hearing seems to be to sleep it off for a week and hope it gets better, making it difficult to conduct a study on early responses. There are studies though, and my conclusion is that it's sti…

I had minor hearing loss after a festival, went to an ENT around 72 hours afterwards and was prescribed steroids

After a week my hearing was back to normal, so at least in my case it worked (although I guess there's a question of whether it would have recovered anyway)

Re: Mercedes-Benz pre-safe sound

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Post by VBprogrammer »

gambiting wrote: post #151
megaremote wrote: post #120

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Fantastic, someone driving a deadly vehicle responsible for 40,000 deaths every single year, and now they can't even hear anything either. Hey, but as long as you are ok, right?

You do realize that deaf people can drive legally, yeah?

People with double arm amputations can also drive but if you or I decided to go out and drive with our feet it would be stupid.

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Post by Tempest1981 »

Cerium wrote: post #52
coke12 wrote: post #31

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There was a pretty good HN comment thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16723099 From the linked thread: """ 5. The stupid toilet bowl lid only fell about 8 inches. How could it damage my hearing so badly? I looked up the speed of sound in ceramic, divided by the length of the toilet bowl lid (and divided by 2 since the fundamental vibration is a half wavelength). This predicts 3.5 kHz. 6. This frequ…

Be careful dropping glass bottles into recycling bins too; they pose nearly the same problem - they don't usually shatter and the sound escapes the bin upwards towards you.

I've started tilting the bin at a 45 degree angle, and sliding the bottles in. Seems to help somewhat.

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Post by adrianN »

misterdoubt wrote: post #82
wycy wrote: post #78

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That office building alarms are worse is all the more annoying since they theoretically shouldn't need to wake people from sleep.

Well, they do need to overcome my noise-cancelled high-volume drown-out-coworkers music...

At one of my former workplaces we weren't allowed to wear over-ear noise cancelling head phones because of the risk that we didn't hear the fire alarm.

Re: Mercedes-Benz pre-safe sound

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Post by adrianN »

outworlder wrote: post #32
CaliforniaKarl wrote: post #6

I think this should be marked [2015], as the video included on the site was uploaded in 2015. But still, this is really cool! I also didn't know that the ear has a "self-defense" mechanism against loud noise. I wonder how that mechanism interacts with things like headphone audio being played at high volumes. Does the mechanism eventually wear out? How does that affect people who do sound effects/mixing/mastering for…

> Does the mechanism eventually wear out? I hope not, because I have been able to control the muscle voluntarily and it is still works after almost four decades. It doesn't go off by itself all the time though. It's more for sudden loud noise, I don't think it works at all for sustained loud noises.

I wonder whether deliberate ear-rumbling trains the muscle sufficiently to improve the protection.
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