nasa has a mission called advanced air mobility it's our vision of what the future of traveling in
air vehicles might look like we look at how could we use air vehicles in the future how could we
use something that's safe that's accessible that's affordable and that's quiet in order to get across
town to go to the grocery store to commute to work all these kind of things may lie in our future
one area that the nasa team is working on is vehicle noise looking at how to make sure that
when these vehicles come into our communities that they're very quiet and can be integrated
quietly into our communities we need to understand exactly what's making the noise so we start with
what pieces of the vehicle make noise and how can we make those pieces be quieter and then we look
at how does the noise get into the community how do people hear it outside or in their homes what
do they think about that sound and we need to then look at human test subjects and how they react to
those sounds so that we can take that back and design the vehicle so that it really doesn't
make noise that's annoying to people nasa's working right now with our
industry partners that are exploring how these new vehicles are going to sound
so we're going out as the industry partners are developing their configurations and we're
making measurements of these vehicles flying we're also using our laboratories and our experimental
facilities within nasa to investigate different types of noise and how it sounds to people
for advanced air mobility we're looking at what nasa's vision is for the future of transportation
in and around our cities and things that we'll be using in our everyday lives and we know that
part of making that vision a reality is making sure that we understand the noise these vehicles
make and then we make sure that they're as quiet as they can be as they come into our communities
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