{"id":1674,"date":"2011-01-21T10:41:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T18:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.everhear.com\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2022-09-29T13:55:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T20:55:27","slug":"convertible-driving-and-your-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/convertible-driving-and-your-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Convertible Driving and Your Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/blog\/1053195_study-finds-high-speed-convertible-driving-hazardous-to-hearing\">new study released<\/a> by the St. Louis University School of Medicine and the Ear Institute of Texas found that high-speech convertible driving can be hazardous to your hearing. When cruisin&#8217; at speeds of 55MPH+ with the top down you are exposing your ears to <a href=\"http:\/\/everhear.wpengine.com\/hearing\/hearing-health\/how-to-prevent-loss\/\">sound levels<\/a> greater than 85 decibels. This decibel range is where irreversible hearing damage can begin. It&#8217;s not only the sound level, but also the constant battering of turbulence on your ears during the drive that can play a role on hearing loss. The research found that with each MPH increased, the chances of hearing loss damage increased.<\/p>\n<p>The study recommends that if you are planning on driving around in your convertible, you pop the top on for drives that might bring you over 55MPH.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study released by the St. Louis University School of Medicine and the Ear Institute of Texas found that high-speech convertible driving can be hazardous to your hearing. When cruisin&#8217; at speeds of 55MPH+ with the top down you are exposing your ears to sound levels greater than 85 decibels. This decibel range is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Convertible Driving and Your Hearing","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","schema":"","fname":"","lname":"","position":"","credentials":"","placeID":"","no_match":false,"name":"","company":"","review":"","address":"","city":"","state":"","zip":"","lat":"","lng":"","phone1":"","phone2":"","fax":"","mon1":"","mon2":"","tue1":"","tue2":"","wed1":"","wed2":"","thu1":"","thu2":"","fri1":"","fri2":"","sat1":"","sat2":"","sun1":"","sun2":"","hours-note":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9],"tags":[448,449,12,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10698,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/10698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everhear.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}