Tesla Cybertruck may be unsafe for other road users: Australian safety chief

Re:Tesla Cybertruck may be unsafe for other road users: Aust... by ericmcer on Friday November 29, 2019 @07:00PM (#21667542)

In cities lifted trucks and motorcycles and cars without sufficient muffling should be illegal. Engineers have spent so much time and money trying to solve problems around noise, pollution and safety so that we can operate internal combustion engine vehicles in crowded cities without ruining each others lives. Then someone can just lift their truck and take the muffler off for vanity reasons? Seems insane

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck may be unsafe for other road users: Aust... by dharmab on Friday November 29, 2019 @07:14PM (#21667607)

Those _are_ illegal already. It's just that in many places the police don't actively enforce the laws because they have more important work to do.

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck may be unsafe for other road users: Aust... by diogenescynic on Friday November 29, 2019 @08:12PM (#21667841)

Not disagreeing with your point, but a what is the more important work they’re supposedly working on? In SF cops aren’t enforcing traffic laws, drug laws, or really even patrolling so what are cops actually spending their time on?

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck may be unsafe for other road users: Aust... by gberger on Monday December 02, 2019 @08:42AM (#21682190)

Presumably, violent and property crimes.

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck may be unsafe for other road users: Aust... by Reason077 on Friday November 29, 2019 @07:30PM (#21667677)

I think the only solution for this is to phase out ICE vehicles entirely. No matter how quiet they are when they leave the factory, there is always some idiot who's gonna modify the exhaust because he thinks that making extra loud noises makes him cool.

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck may be unsafe for other road users: Aust... by banana_giraffe on Friday November 29, 2019 @07:58PM (#21667796)

And some companies that will modify the non-ICE cars to make more noise:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1180877114226008064

Though, the first time I hear a Tesla making the coconut noise from Monty Python I will no doubt laugh. The second time? Yeah, it'll get old fast.

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck may be unsafe for other road users: Aust... by Reason077 on Friday November 29, 2019 @09:06PM (#21668055)

NHTSA recently updated the rules for vehicle pedestrian warning sounds, and now allows user-selectable sounds. Previously these were prohibited, so vehicles could only have one fixed sound.

I'm not sure that "coconut noises" would be allowed, however, as the rules require continuous tones (modulated according to speed and acceleration) that must be recognisable as an engine noise.

Perhaps the coconut noise will be a manually-activated alert/horn feature rather than the mandatory pedestrian warning sound.

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck may be unsafe for other road users: Aust... by jcadam on Friday November 29, 2019 @09:48PM (#21668209)

My 2018 Honda Clarity makes a really cheesy synthetic new-age sounding "hum" noise at low speed. I wish Honda would put out a software update to make the noise user-selectable.

The intro to "The Final Countdown" in a continuous loop would be swell.

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Re:Tesla Cybertruck may be unsafe for other road users: Aust... by toomuchtodo on Friday November 29, 2019 @09:27PM (#21668133)

Coconut noise mp3 from Monty Python is already being deployed in Tesla software based on recent decompiling.

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