Rob Reedijk wrote:
Kurt Albershardt wrote:

S O'Neill wrote:


One of the worst things you can do to your hearing is to drive with the
window down. There are huge LF waves set up in your car that you don't
really hear, but the hair cells in your ear get broken as a result.

If you only have one window open and the wind is right, it can make a
sort of 7- or 8-Hz whistle out of the interior, very uncomfortable.


Which is why I've been driving with earplugs for anything over 30 minutes since about age 25.


You drive with earplugs on?

On long trips in the truck, definitely. I can still converse with my wife (alo wearing plugs now.)

Try it sometime. Turn up the CD player a little louder than normal and it's actually quite pleasant.




Do you also hold a cup of coffee with your
left hand, a cell phone with the right and watch DVDs?

Don't drink coffee.

Use an earset for the cellphone (removing one earplug.)

No DVD player in the truck (no kids.)