In 2014, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration established the very cool-sounding "Minimum Sound Requirements for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles," which does exactly what it says.
Earlier this year America's Department of Transportation proposed new minimum sound requirements for electric and hybrid cars, which may require sound generators to be added to some vehicles.
The new sound requirements applies across the U.S., and should help prevent as many as 2,400 pedestrian injuries each year once they span the range of EVs and hybrids on the road.
Moreover, the button's sound requirements received by interface manufacturers are ill-defined, insufficient or even inexistent, and consequently their conversion into specifications for manufacturing is problematic and leads to long and costly development processes.
Other venues couldn't adhere to the Dolby Atmos Surround Sound requirements that Netflix imposed.
The sound quality requirement of the high-resolution map in turn requires a large quantity of microphones, since the quality of the separated sound is mainly defined by the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), which is bound by the amount of microphones employed.
That the reasons for the changes which were made were made in good faith and for what may be considered sound professional requirements does not minimize the loss in aesthetic or philosophic punch.
In most countries in Europe, building regulations specify sound insulation requirements for dwellings.
Loud sound seemed a requirement.
