Can noise-canceling tech make your car lighter and handle better? The answer might be yes.
You may own a pair of Bose QuietComfort noise-canceling headphones or earbuds. You may also be aware that Bose has been helping manufacturers trim the mass and cost of isolating powertrain noise by letting the vehicle's audio speakers broadcast out-of-phase sound waves that cancel powertrain noise the way headphones eliminate white noise on airplanes. Bose is now taking on the much tougher task of canceling road and suspension noise with a system called QuietComfort Road Noise Control.
A fourth build shows what's possible when adding RNC to an existing vehicle, or when brought in quite late in the design process.Broadly speaking, vehicles heavily optimized for quiet refinement generally offer the greatest cost and weight savings via RNC, while also deriving the greatest ride/handling improvement .
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