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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.
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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.
Yeah but petrol cars go brum brum
Funny, that’s why I picked EV as a family car. I could turn on the AC and let my daughter and my dog sleep without any brum brum.
I have a proposed solution to this …
Straight cut gears
There is that! I’ve been thinking of marketing exterior sound systems, that go Brum BRum, for EVs. Do you think it would help?
I believe I recall reading about one EV brand that was going to let customers ‘design their signature sound’ or something along those lines.
This was originally allowed in the USA, but NHTSA banned it: https://www.teslarati.com/nhtsa-wont-allow-evs-to-have-unlimited-or-custom-pedestrian-alert-sounds/. Otter countries might still allow it.
I can see it making sense. If you’re blind and you hear the sound of a waterfall approaching you, you’re not going to immediately think “that’s a car.”
Otter countries are famously permissive.
I’m not even going to fix that typo. We need more otter countries.
It’s the very definition of a happy accident.