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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by sgerenser on Sunday June 04, 2023 @08:01AM (#36184938)
My RAV4 Prime is much louder than an ICE at low speeds, especially in reverse. It’s so loud it’s sparked a bunch of videos and discussion on how to lower the volume: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q1UqicqdzFE

Some have figured out how to disable it completely (just pulling the noisemaker causes a fault code to trigger) but quieting it down to roughly the volume of an ICE seems more reasonable to me.

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Re:The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated by emn13 on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @02:51PM (#36231620)
That noise sounds bad, and unreasonable. I suppose I've just been lucky not to live near anybody that has a car making that kind of noise.

Irrespective of the volume it is remarkable why any car designer thought that this was the right _kind_ of noise for the car to emit. Somebody chose that soundtrack, and you kind of have to wonder why...

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