And car makers have found a way to use these shitty sound generators to signal who is driving the biggest and most expensive vehicle. Fucking Audi is just ridiculous.
Their EVs are so loud, they might as well have an ICE.
You just described exactly why the “tire noise is enough, you just gotta go fast” comment was so stupid, but also yours is stupid and backwards because drivers do drive faster than they should.
You can look both ways and still get hit by a car that was around the corner, just turned onto your street, or was just going that much faster than other cars or what you realized when you saw them. Tire noise is far from enough to call that out and make you look-again, in-time; Even if you keep your head on a pivot as you walk.
That’s really only needed at slow speeds. At higher speeds the tire noise is enough. Even for most modern ICE cars, at higher speeds the tire noise dominates over the engine/exhaust noise.
Most modern ICE cars are still deadly-quiet at slower-speeds as well. Also, pedestrian safety is a weird context in which to be espousing “tire noise is enough for pedestrians, just gotta go fast”.
I mean, EV’s were too-quiet for pedestrian safety until they added various noise-makers …
And car makers have found a way to use these shitty sound generators to signal who is driving the biggest and most expensive vehicle. Fucking Audi is just ridiculous. Their EVs are so loud, they might as well have an ICE.
No disagreement here. Gimme a speaker or three, and let me decide what plays on it. Too bad an Ice-cream-truck jingle would just tease people.
Heaven forbid pedestrians look both ways. As instructed since childhood.
The biggest problem with humanity is natural selection left us loooong ago… now look at how many morons we have to suffer.
You just described exactly why the “tire noise is enough, you just gotta go fast” comment was so stupid, but also yours is stupid and backwards because drivers do drive faster than they should.
You can look both ways and still get hit by a car that was around the corner, just turned onto your street, or was just going that much faster than other cars or what you realized when you saw them. Tire noise is far from enough to call that out and make you look-again, in-time; Even if you keep your head on a pivot as you walk.
That’s really only needed at slow speeds. At higher speeds the tire noise is enough. Even for most modern ICE cars, at higher speeds the tire noise dominates over the engine/exhaust noise.
Most modern ICE cars are still deadly-quiet at slower-speeds as well. Also, pedestrian safety is a weird context in which to be espousing “tire noise is enough for pedestrians, just gotta go fast”.