Well, my point was simply that the same wish has been made - almost to the letter - when the horseless carriages were introduced, or - if you prefer - that when

Well, my point was simply that the same wish has been made - almost to the letter - when the horseless carriages were introduced, or - if you prefer - that when the electric cars will be the only vehicles around we will have finally some less noise after several centuries, but the noise was not "introduced" by cars, and as a matter of fact 19th centuries city streets were likely as noisy or worse.