{"id":2279,"date":"2013-08-08T00:28:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T00:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2013-08-08T00:28:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T00:28:31","slug":"how-gm-makes-a-car-sound-like-what-a-car-is-supposed-to-sound-like-thoughtful-design-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/08\/how-gm-makes-a-car-sound-like-what-a-car-is-supposed-to-sound-like-thoughtful-design-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"How GM makes a car sound like what a car is supposed to sound like \u2014 Thoughtful Design \u2014 Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Totally fascinating. Medium.com has been running some really interesting stuff lately, I’ve noticed. -egg]<\/p>\n

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During the car sales pitch, there is a moment when you first get behind the wheel. You hit the ignition, the engine turns over, and the car comes to life. You are bathed in the sound of countless mechanical and electrical parts as they spin, twist, push, pull, and rub against one another. It\u2019s Kara Gordon\u2019s job to make sure you like what you hear.Gordon is a noise and vibration performance engineer with GM. She\u2019s been doing this since 1999 and is part of the team that designed and tested the soundscape of the new Chevy Impala. GM is pushing the luxury car as their quietest full-size sedan, ever. While they\u2019ve clearly put a great deal of effort into isolating and sealing the cabin, what\u2019s more interesting is the effort they put into the sounds you do hear.<\/p>\n

via How GM makes a car sound like what a car is supposed to sound like \u2014 Thoughtful Design \u2014 Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Totally fascinating. Medium.com has been running some really interesting stuff lately, I’ve noticed. -egg] During the car sales pitch, there is a moment when you first get behind the wheel. You hit the ignition, the engine turns over, and the car comes to life. You are bathed in the sound of countless mechanical and electrical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-AL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}