What is harmful loud music in the car
Many car owners like to listen to music while driving, as it helps to pass the time and get in the right mood. The audio system market is responsive to the needs of users and offers the most sophisticated devices, speakers and subwoofers. With their help, you can significantly increase the volume of the sound, but not all drivers think about the danger that such loud music is fraught with.
Doesn't allow you to focus
Experts have done many studies trying to determine whether loud music affects driving safety. There was once an opinion that some musical genres, on the contrary, increase the concentration of the driver, and therefore reduce the number of accidents.
Later it turned out that the genre is not as important as the specific emotions of an individual. Let's say, for someone, classical or calm background music does not cause strong emotions, and someone prefers to listen to unobtrusive electronics in the background, which is also not able to greatly distract from the traffic situation. In addition, both violent joyful emotions and smoother negative emotions are dangerous.
For example, it turned out that the feeling of nostalgia that often arises when listening to certain songs increases the accident rate by 40 percent. Music affects a person in such a way that he is carried away by his thoughts into his experiences and memories, as a result of which control over driving falls. Such high accident rates are alarming, so experts suggest completely abandoning listening to music while driving.
Silences sounds that can warn of breakdowns
Drivers often turn up the volume "to the fullest" to drown out the noise of the engine and various technical signals emitted by the car. Many familiar signals - for example, a warning about a loosely closed door or an unfastened seat belt - annoy the driver, because these actions will be carried out anyway.
But in reality, electronics can give sudden signals for a wide variety of reasons and malfunctions. In addition, sometimes there are non-standard noises in the operation of the engine (knocking, squealing, clicking, and much more). With “screaming” music in the cabin, it is simply impossible to hear all these sounds, and sometimes you need to respond to them immediately in order to avoid bigger problems and breakdowns.
Thus, “losing” sound information about events occurring with the machine is by no means worth it. If you are really annoyed by the noise of the engine, you can contact the service, where the car will be glued with a special soundproofing material, after which it will become more comfortable to drive. After such an operation, you can listen to music at a completely normal volume.
Interferes with others
The most painful thing to find out is not whether it is possible, in principle, to listen to music while driving, but how exactly to listen to it. Often in the stream you are faced with wild noise somewhere behind, in front or to the side of you. The windows of the car vibrate, powerful bass literally hits the head and does not allow you to concentrate on driving. It is completely incomprehensible how the driver himself, who, apparently, considers himself very cool, can withstand such noise.
It turns out that such loud music unnerves all drivers who are “lucky” to be nearby. According to experiments, people sometimes forget to shift gears: a sudden and powerful source of sound is so confusing. In addition, both passengers and pedestrians suffer. There is nothing to say about the unfortunate driver himself, the accident, most likely, will not wait long for him.
It is worth mentioning separately those who arrange an impromptu disco at night. It is well known that at night the streets become quiet, and therefore the sound is transmitted much farther and stronger. It will not be good for the residents of the surrounding houses. At night, of course, everyone wants to sleep, and if an unplanned wake-up is more likely to cause irritation in adults (although we should not forget about those who suffer from insomnia and fall asleep with difficulty), then in the case of young children, such a “concert” can be a real disaster.
At the same time, it is almost impossible to hold the driver accountable, since listening to loud music is not punishable by a fine. At most, traffic police officers can stop a “screaming” car to check if the car owner is in a state of alcohol or drug intoxication. If the driver arranges noisy rides at night, then he can be attracted under the law on silence, but this is quite difficult to implement, and the amount of the fine is small - from 500 to 1000 rubles.
So, listening to loud music in the car brings some problems. The driver's concentration is lost, information about malfunctions can be missed, and in addition, strong noise is very disturbing to others. If you can’t give up your favorite songs at all, or the silence at the wheel depresses you, try to set an acceptable sound level that will not cause any trouble.
