The Quietest Spot at the Detroit International Auto Show

When they say noise... they mean noise! As you may have noticed in the audio files in the other posts, there is a lot of background noise. Using a standard voice recorder, we just are not able to fully remove that background noise of the 6000 news and journalists all gathered in one area at any given time!

Unfortunately, for those in the Michigan Arena, it is a seperate area of the show on a different floor. In this area you will find such groups as Meyers Motors, several smaller research groups, and several universities pretty much completely untouched - and uncovered by journalists - but not here! We will be covering some information on those in this area - some pretty cool stuff.

In the center of the Michigan Arena was a driving course with a fountain - so there was a little noise. As you will notice in the 1 minute 50 second video that follows is the absolute quiet of the hybrid and plug-in electric vehicles driving by with the exception of the Silverado (first time round) and the Escalade. The engines were running in these as they re-charged the batteries.

If you have not had an opportunity to drive a hybrid or plug-in electric vehicle, these are set up so that attendees to the show can drive them through the course.