{"id":64362,"date":"2026-06-23T11:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=64362"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T14:52:20","slug":"almost-hit-by-a-car-contradiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/en\/almost-hit-by-a-car-contradiction\/","title":{"rendered":"A contradiction in my \u201cI almost got hit by a car\u201d story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone on Tildes <a href=\"https:\/\/tildes.net\/~life\/1uqm\/i_almost_got_hit_by_a_car#comment-i3ic\">pointed out a contradiction<\/a> at the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/quase-fui-atropelado\/\">my \u201cI almost got hit by a car\u201d story<\/a>, where I say that, since the incident, I started using the Loop Engage, which reduces 16&nbsp;dB \u2014 far less than the noise cancellation on AirPods&nbsp;Pro&nbsp;2, estimated at 27&nbsp;dB.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn 11 dB difference is far greater than it sounds on paper,\u201d I wrote. In that case, the 16&nbsp;dB reduced by the Loop Engage would also count as a significant reduction.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s right. If the point of changing my behavior is to stay as aware as possible of my surroundings, then any reduction in hearing works against that goal.<\/p>\n<p>Since last Thursday 18<sup>th<\/sup>, when I read that comment, I\u2019ve been testing walking on the streets at its normal volume. No Loop Engage, no headphones, nothing: bare ears.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, after about two uninterrupted years of walking around with something in my ears dampening the noise, it felt strange. On the other hand, it was less uncomfortable than I expected. Maybe my tolerance has increased over that time?<\/p>\n<p>Someone suggested I use the \u201cAdaptive\u201d mode on AirPods. Since 2023, some models have had this feature, a kind of blend of the original two modes. <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/pt-br\/104979#anc\">According to Apple<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Adaptive mode blends Active Noise Cancellation and Transparency mode together to control the level of noise you hear in your headphones based on the changing noise conditions in your environment. You can customize Adaptive Audio to allow more or less noise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019ve always used these headphones in an all-or-nothing way \u2014 either with noise cancellation or in transparency mode. Live and learn.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, adaptive mode doesn\u2019t solve the image problem. I\u2019d still be the kind of person who looks distracted by their headphones.<\/p>\n<p>That image problem intensified on Friday 19<sup>th<\/sup>. During halftime of the Brazil vs. Haiti match in the football World Cup, I was surprised to see Vin\u00edcius Jr. on TV, dancing confidently in a noisy city, yet sealed off from the sonic chaos thanks to his AirPods&nbsp;Pro\u2122&nbsp;3 with \u201cthe world\u2019s best in-ear active noise cancellation,\u201d in an Apple ad. What can I say\u2026?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone on Tildes pointed out a contradiction at the end of my \u201cI almost got hit by a car\u201d story. He was right. As I reflected on it, I saw an even bigger contradiction coming from Apple. Hard to beat that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/?p=64357"},"categories":[1575],"tags":[1185,600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64364,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64362\/revisions\/64364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manualdousuario.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}