Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Potential for Sonic Attacks from Bass-Heavy Vehicles?

You're sitting in your kitchen and eating dinner, when some kid drives past your house with ultra low bass at an extremely loud level. It shakes the walls and you might even be able to feel it in your skull. It's not very pleasant. So could this be the start of something new? Are sonic attacks that cause biological harm possible with loud and heavy bass from vehicles?
Rest assured, while very loud and bass-heavy music from cars can potentially cause some discomfort or disturbance to people nearby, it is unlikely that they would be able to create a true "sonic attack" in the military or scientific sense of the term.
A sonic attack typically refers to the use of concentrated, high-intensity sound waves as a weapon to cause physical harm or incapacitation. This requires specialized equipment and technology that goes beyond what is typically found in consumer-grade car audio systems.
Generating truly damaging sound levels capable of causing physical harm would require far more powerful audio equipment than what is typically found in even the most bass-heavy car stereo systems. The power requirements to produce those kinds of intense sound waves are immense.
For a sonic attack to be effective, the sound waves need to be highly focused and directed at a target. Regular car audio systems radiate sound in multiple directions, making them ineffective as targeted weapons.
Sonic weapons often utilize infrasound or ultrasound frequencies that are outside the normal human hearing range. Regular car audio is focused on the audible frequency range.
So while very loud car stereos can be a nuisance and may even cause temporary hearing damage at close range, they lack the key capabilities required to be considered true sonic weapons or "sonic attacks." The technology and power requirements for that type of application are far beyond what is found in consumer audio equipment.

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