Electric cars have to make noise on purpose because otherwise it would be a silent car. And most of these noises are are weird futuristic WEEEE-00000 UFO sounds. Therefore I posit that we should be able to change the noises our electric cars make
EDIT: These suggestions are Top-Notch! Keep em coming!
I’m not suggesting the following is standard, but the specific sound my car makes allows for people to not just hear the car, but to also know what direction the sound is coming from. The sound is engineered this way.
Compare this with those utility trucks that have those signature “reverse/backing up” (beep…beep…beep) sounds. You can hear it, but it’s almost impossible to tell from what direction. It’s been a complaint by blind people, and there’s still worker incidents where they step into a moving path of a vehicle despite the sound.
You can even make sounds that work against this technique. Home audio systems use directional audio to give the effect of sounds being in certain locations. I wouldn’t want people to be able to change a car sound to something that is more dangerous.
I think that’s what the static sound is for. It doesn’t have a broken speaker it’s easier to hear where the truck is at
I’d argue the sound should be standardized across all models. It needs to be immediately recognizable to nearby pedestrians.
Yeah it’s like saying that you think we should be able to customize our headlights to show the bat signal or something.
Like people die because of this shit, I frankly could not care less about what you wish your car sounded like.
Yes, because that is actually the purpose of those sounds. Not to sound “cool” but to warn pedestrians the otherwise nearly silent car may be moving.
That’s why Harleys are noisy.
Then why are Kawasakis much less noisy? I thought it was for the Harley’s owner’s inflated ego?
Harleys are not noisy until assholes remove the mufflers.
It obviously needs to be the Jetson’s sound
Under 20 I want choo-choo train noise, 20-50 would be tie fighter noise, over 50 flight of the valkyries.
The sound from a car is mostly tire noise.
Not when you’re going slow
Then I don’t hear them at all.
That’s how they sneak up on you.
Goddam right.
True but that’s not relevant.
So we need noisemakers on gas and EV cars.
Yes because drivers of EVs hit pedestrians and this helps save lives.
If cars (EV and gas) are travelling at road speed, tires are the loudest sound. If cars (EV and gas) are traveling at very reduced speed, neither make a sound. I have no idea what you are talking about.
The engine and everything in an ICE car make sound at reduced speed. It’s not the loudest on new cars but its still like 40db. I have no idea what you are talking about.
I’m saying a gas car travelling at low speed doesn’t make a sound. Does it help if I repeat myself?
That’s wrong. It very much makes sound.
I’m of two minds about this. On one hand, I could drive a car that makes a TIE fighter sound, or the time machine DeLorean from Back to the Future.
On the other hand, someone could have their car make the Dumb and Dumber “most annoying sound in the world,” or just one long continuous wet fart, or pro-fascist propaganda. Or worse, something completely silent and incredibly dangerous.
Maybe if you could download special sound packs, like you can for GPSes. I bet Lucasfilm and Universal would go for that.
Silent is actually the easy one, for many EVs you can just pull the fuse for the noise maker. It was pretty cool rolling down our driveway in a near completely silent car, but it felt very wrong, immediately replaced the fuse.
I question the need for a noise sometimes. My son has a 2001 Tahoe that is dead silent and has caused him to try to start it with it running a few times. Meanwhile if I start my car it’s loud enough to wake the dead (at least until it idles down), different strokes for different folks I guess.
As someone who lives in a city and is constantly exposed to car noise: No.
Like, people have no idea how loud cars are. When I turn the volume of my ear buds to 100%, it hurts my ears. It’s so loud it’s uncomfortable. But when I’m riding my bike along the street to the city center, I can barely hear my podcasts, even at 100%
Just imagine what it was like 50 years ago. How did people live in such insane noise polution conditions. Getting rid of noise should be one good enough reason for ev switch
But when I’m riding my bike along the street to the city center, I can barely hear my podcasts, even at 100%.
Get something with noise cancelling.
That seems dangerous when riding a bike through a busy city. I intentionally wear these regular earbuds that don’t seal your ear airtight. I don’t like the feeling of having one of my senses completely cut off, especially when participating in traffic. That seems like a big security risk.
TBH it seems dangerous to listen to a podcast without oncoming traffic blaring through it, as fisch@lemmy.world wants.
The same content hurts your ears that you can’t hear in the city center?
I have this exact experience. To hear music on some busy streets, I have to turn the volume up to unhealthy levels (I stop listening at that point).
… How many hours have you spent here on earth ? Adaptative senses is a nifty feature which allows you to see better in the dark, listen in on quiet conversations, feel the texture of stuff and all of that only when it matters.
That doesn’t answer my question. Things can be different volumes and voice only productions are especially quiet.
I always wanted to mod my car so the stereo plays different pod-racer sounds depending on rpm, but it never got past the idea phase. Wonder if you could do the same for EV’s
They’re the same for safety. People need to build a subconscious mental model of what a car sounds like so they can be safe as pedestrians and cyclists.
If there were 1000 different sounds, that mental model would never form.
I wish I could change the sound on mine. When we reverse it sounds like a Temu TARDIS.
Mambo de Chocobo lets go
When I can get my car to sound like this:
Without following your link, it reads like you want your car to sound like“dwiomp”! I had a healthy chuckle
Clean up that link, everything after the question mark is for tracking.
Done.
“silent car”
lmao nope those things are loud as fuck because of the tires and weight
F=forward, R=reverse, D=Don’t move.
F= fast, R= real fast D= dangerously fast.
What do we got on this thing, a CuisinArt?!? LUDICROUS SPEED, GOOOO!!!
You can load sounds of different model trains into the decoders that go in them to make them drive and light up and make sound. The sounds follow what a real locomotive does, too, like the chuffs, turbocharger, or what have you.
Imagine loading a steam locomotive sound into a car
Yeah, let’s confuse and distract the people around us in 2 ton moving death machines. Hahaha wouldn’t that be fun?
I love this idea. It would also be a lot of fun to load in niche locomotive sounds and see the secret train nerds light up when they hear a DC-10 or whatever
