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Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W... by Doxin on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:09AM (#15958821)
Modern gas car engines are already pretty much inaudible over tire noise at slowish speeds. Electric cars don't make any less tire noise. People will manage without artificially adding sounds to electric vehicles.
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Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W... by testestx on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:45AM (#15959000)
Car sounds are important for small children and animals in the street though.
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Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W... by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @09:25AM (#15960356)
At speeds below tire noise, drivers should be very careful about those anyway. Plus modern cars have collision detection hard- and software too. Do electric cars have better braking performance?
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Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W... by Doxin on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @06:15AM (#15959349)
And as I've stated at those speeds tire noise is dominating the overal sound for most cars already.
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Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W... by ju-st on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @06:02AM (#15959317)
That's why many/most EVs have loudspeakers which make "electric car noises" below 20-30kmph. Above that the tire noise becomes dominant and there is no noise level difference between EV and ICE.
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