The new sound of electric cars?
 

From https://www.carthrottle.com/post/thi...tric-vehicles/

I really think that no sound is the best sound, though I do think that this new sounds is pretty cool sounding..

Put straight cut gears in the drivetrain, problem solved.

How on earth could you possibly think that sounds cool?

I now want to stab someone.

Probably a EV driver.

Well that just ruins the element of surprise when some idiot walks onto the road without looking :upsidedow

wait, so the onus is now on pedestrians to scramble out of the way of cars?

aren't cars supposed to yield to pedestrians?



i would think alerting (waking up) the driver with an annoying sound would be a better solution to, you know, a driver about to run over a pedestrian and expecting them to jump out of the way. have y'all walked through a grocery store parking lot lately? it's like death race 2000

how fucking backwards is this place?

women are worth 10 points

teenagers are worth 40 points

The sound of the future. :thumbsup

Typically the general idea is that a car can hurt you so it's good practice to not walk onto a road without looking for something that might hurt you first. :2 cents:

Here cars need to give way to pedestrians when turning left or right at a set of traffic lights, zebra crossings, school crossings, etc. But you spend a day in Melbourne and you'll see complete idiots crossing 20 metres away from an intersection, diagonally, while reading their mobile phone and not looking.

oh i agree. we are all ultimately responsible for our own lives. i can tell you i keep my head on a swivel when i cross the street and certainly when walking through parking lots.

but i do that because of shitty drivers who have little concern for pedestrians. the problem is not poor walking, the problem is poor driving.

in reading the actual study results mentioned in the article, i can highlight that the problem is inattentive (poor) drivers:

http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811204.pdf


EV drivers do not check to make sure things are safe and clear when backing up or parking. the test could in fact be showing that EV drivers are worse drivers than ICE.

i strongly believe the problem is with the driver, not the pedestrian, even though pedestrians are certainly responsible for themselves.

:2 cents::2 cents:

Why not the sound of normal car? With a beep or something for those "cool" guys who want to announce it is actually an electric car :1orglaugh

I would think that the sound of a real car would be best. A nicely tuned deep sounding exhaust note would be perfect.

I don't know. It reminds me of some sci-fi space sounds from 60's sci-fi movies... maybe its a sound that as a kid, I always associated with "The Future"... ? Not sure. Just kinda like it.

No Stabbing! Stabbing bad.

exactly. and all cars already have this, it's called a horn. which goes to my point, honking your horn at a pedestrian right before you are about to run over her entirely misses the problem.

this is just a silly idea smarmy horn for elitist EV drivers who couldn't be bothered to pay attention.

outta my way lady, i'm drivin!

:thumbsup

Sounds like an intro to a dubstep track.

My EV will need a few sub-woofers to make the growl of an AC 427 Shelby Cobra.

Sounds like something the bureau of ATF would use on a prolonged compound raid to drive their targets insane.

I bike every day, usually 10-30 miles..... And electric cars are freaking dangerous to bikers.

If they sound like that I'll pay Hood Rats to torch them. :2 cents:

I see the headlines now.

Increase in EV leads to higher stabbing rate.

next: warning beepers on knives, to let people know they're about to get stabbed.

I'll help fund the Bic lighters.

Might be a bit too much. lol

It's like the sound they use to put for UFOs in the 60s... careful old school UFO is on the road!!!

I thinks is good if they make the sound of a normal car but that doesn't goes well with noise pollution. They are trying to strike balance between awareness and pollution but my call for this sound is a total utter fail

to the points of who's responsible for what, roads a kind of made particularly for the cars so people have no business stepping on the road as they please unless it's a zebra crossing or something. Obviously as a driver you should look and be aware for idiots going on the road without looking and if you are crossing the road even on a crossing you should look for carmagedon racers...

Sounds like the Mothership coming in to pick up all the treehuggers.


Buh-bye :upsidedow

That's horrible!

Like the new sounds for turn styles(?? The Things that you walk through in a subway that spin around when you walk through em after you put i the money).. Cant remember if that is t he real word for them... Turn Styles???????

I understand the appeal of a big throaty V8 engine. Car engineers spend lots of time to tune the exhaust note to be "just right" during the design of a new sports car. And of course, car owners spend more money swapping the exhausts and mufflers to get the sound they want, because.... just because. I get why a lot of people love the sound and think its cool.

But to me though, that sound doesn't impress me anymore, and I no longer think that sound is "cool".

The sound you hear is of course, air rushing out of the cylinder after each little explosion of each cylinder. This is actually wasted energy. The louder the car is, the more energy it takes just to move that air around. Even worse, it's dirty air. In North America at least, you need to have a catalytic converter to reduce pollution, which of course reduces air flow and efficiency, adding more weight, etc.

What I think is "Cool" is doing away with all of that. Electric means no explosions, so no exhaust, no muffler, no catalytic converter, so you save money, save weight, etc. It's just smarter and makes a lot more sense, and is therefore cool, to me.

Add a sci-fi whirring sound? Meh.. I'd still prefer it to be silent, but the sci-fi whirring sound seems kind of cool.

Peace.

Yes that's right!

I think you should be able to change it like a ring tone. Make a custom one or choose from 20 presets.

If they did choose a standardized sound like that, maybe it would be really easy to filter out using noise cancelling technology to those that don't need to hear it (like the driver of the car).

ridiculous :2 cents::thumbsup

Sounds like a flogged out 200something cube motor to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7kk0pfpFcI

about 1m30 in :thumbsup