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Re:Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (... by culopatin on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @09:16PM (#48030971)
I find electric cars louder than the current engines most of the time. The space travel noises they put out while driving are louder than say a non hybrid Camry, not to mention ICE cars don’t make any backing up noises. Parallel parking of electric cars is so annoying. Hybrids too, I can hear the whining of a Prius coming down the street from half a block away.

This is not to say I’m against electric and hybrid cars, I’m all for them. But the fake noises they added are not a benefit.

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Re:Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (... by kalessin on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @09:23PM (#48031016)
Weird, my experience has been that EVs are much quieter and that's a real improvement in densely populated areas. Past a certain speed the main source of noise is the tires and then EVs aren't much better than ICE vehicles (wrt noise).
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Re:Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (... by culopatin on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @09:25PM (#48031025)
Im in a super dense area. Speed limit is really low. So tire noise is not that big of a factor and the WOOOOOOO of electric cars is prevalent over others. Obviously comparing apples to apples, a diesel truck is going to be super loud.
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Re:Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (... by queryquartz on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @09:32PM (#48031076)
Oh man this does not resonate with me at all.

Motorbikes, trucks and cars make up the majority of noise where I live.

The teslas/BYDs pass without you noticing them.

One bike with a straight pipe though, more noise than the suburb's worth of traffic localised to wherever they inflict themselves.

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Re:Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (... by solumunus on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @02:35AM (#48032999)
They’re a benefit to the lives they’re attempting to save.

You’re objectively wrong about the nose but it could be that the sound is particularly annoying to you for some reason, or that your brain has not yet been conditioned to automatically tune it out like it has with ICE engines.

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