OT: Loud Noisy Cars?

[Get a Job]

Me too, Kia Niro EV, absolutely love it

I'll never go back. I've had a VW e-Golf and now I have a Chevy Volt and Bolt.

 

[Slasher]

My Tesla is so breathtakingly silent and I love it. And now I can't stand noise from other cars at all.

 

[Get a Job]

My Tesla is so breathtakingly silent and I love it. And now I can't stand noise from other cars at all.

Agreed. The silence was weird for like 3 minutes, but once I got used to it, I never wanted to hear an engine again. I really hate when the gas motor kicks on in the Volt.

 

[Excalibur]

My car doesn't make a peep, and I can outrun you.

 

[Watchdog]

Agreed. The silence was weird for like 3 minutes, but once I got used to it, I never wanted to hear an engine again. I really hate when the gas motor kicks on in the Volt.

My car doesn't make a peep, and I can outrun you.

I'm too into the visceral pleasures associated with driving so I can't relate to silence, no matter how fast you can go. No offense, but you can have all the tech and torque in the world but it's not the same.

We go on two driving tours annually with Cobras and GT350's and there's just something indescribably pleasurable about 20-25 of the cars cruising nice two lane, twisty, highways in rural parts of New York, New England, Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri, Arkansas and, in two months, the hill country of Texas.
No show offs, no law breaking, just good fun roads, extended happy hours, great meals and lots of stories to be told and heard about why we all love the cars and love to drive them.

 

[temery]

They make 'em loud so they don't have to hear you yelling at kids to get off your lawn.

 

[Excalibur]

I'm too into the visceral pleasures associated with driving so I can't relate to silence, no matter how fast you can go. No offense, but you can have all the tech and torque in the world but it's not the same.

We go on two driving tours annually with Cobras and GT350's and there's just something indescribably pleasurable about 20-25 of the cars cruising nice two lane, twisty, highways in rural parts of New York, New England, Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri, Arkansas and, in two months, the hill country of Texas.
No show offs, no law breaking, just good fun roads, extended happy hours, great meals and lots of stories to be told and heard about why we all love the cars and love to drive them.

Like others have said, you don't miss the sound after about two days. The driving experience is first rate -- great handling, acceleration, responsiveness. More fun to drive than anything else I've been in.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I'm too into the visceral pleasures associated with driving so I can't relate to silence, no matter how fast you can go. No offense, but you can have all the tech and torque in the world but it's not the same.

We go on two driving tours annually with Cobras and GT350's and there's just something indescribably pleasurable about 20-25 of the cars cruising nice two lane, twisty, highways in rural parts of New York, New England, Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri, Arkansas and, in two months, the hill country of Texas.
No show offs, no law breaking, just good fun roads, extended happy hours, great meals and lots of stories to be told and heard about why we all love the cars and love to drive them.

There are studies out there suggesting electric cars will need to produce artificial noise to avoid car/pedestrian accidents. Even with automated electrics and accident avoidance software which "predicts" human movements, the lack of noise becomes a problem for humans who are conditioned to hear noise with automobile traffic.

You can even create staggered option pricing so your Prius can sound like a Ferrari.

Fake noise will be added to new electric cars starting today in the EU

A safety feature for pedestrians

www.theverge.com

Why Electric Cars Are Getting Louder

Electric vehicles are notoriously quiet. But new laws are pushing automakers to experiment with unusual noises.

www.discovermagazine.com

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

There are studies out there suggesting electric cars will need to produce artificial noise to avoid car/pedestrian accidents. Even with automated electrics and accident avoidance software which "predicts" human movements, the lack of noise becomes a problem for humans who are conditioned to hear noise with automobile traffic.

I've thought about this a lot. But in the meantime the simple pleasure of rolling up behind someone walking in the middle of the street, laying on the horn, and watching them jump twenty feet in the air will never get old.

 

[Slasher]

There are studies out there suggesting electric cars will need to produce artificial noise to avoid car/pedestrian accidents. Even with automated electrics and accident avoidance software which "predicts" human movements, the lack of noise becomes a problem for humans who are conditioned to hear noise with automobile traffic.

You can even create staggered option pricing so your Prius can sound like a Ferrari.

Fake noise will be added to new electric cars starting today in the EU

A safety feature for pedestrians

www.theverge.com

Why Electric Cars Are Getting Louder

Electric vehicles are notoriously quiet. But new laws are pushing automakers to experiment with unusual noises.

www.discovermagazine.com

This is already the law in the US. At low speeds (I think it's under 20 MPH) electric cars needs to emit some kind noise. Tesla is having fun with theirs:

 

[Get a Job]

This is already the law in the US. At low speeds (I think it's under 20 MPH) electric cars needs to emit some kind noise. Tesla is having fun with theirs:

Yeah, my Bolt and Volt both make artificial noise at low speed. I can't hear it from in the car, though, unless the windows are down and I'm in the garage.