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Designing a Soundscape for the Cars of the Future

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The Internal Combustion Era

In 18 60, a belgian engineer patented the first commercially successful internal combustion engine. It's a rather violent process of igniting gasolene vapors inside controlled area. A low, kind of low frequency rumble or growl that really forms the base line of urban life. So now that we've talked about the internal combustion era, prepare to say good bye to it, because we're entering a new era, the era of electrification.

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