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Sort of. People aren't very loud. Cars are very loud, especially their horns and the loud beeps from locking/unlocking with a clicker. Amsterdam is a good examp

Sort of. People aren't very loud. Cars are very loud, especially their horns and the loud beeps from locking/unlocking with a clicker. Amsterdam is a good example of a bustling city that is relatively quiet.

andai 6y ago
I was being kept awake by loud traffic the other day and suddenly realized, in my lifetime, that sound will probably go away, replaced by quiet electromotors -- along with the smell!
- wffurr 6y ago
  It could be replaced today largely by bicycles. $30,000 electric cars and charging infrastructure not required.
- duxup 6y ago
  > along with the smell! I grew up in rural US. I took a few trips to Europe and to date the smell of car / bus exhaust reminds me of European cities. It's not a pleasant smell but the memories are pleasant. Weird that in the US I just never associated big cities that I visited here with it as much I did with my trips to Europe.
  - ben7799 6y ago
    This is cause the cars are actually cleaner here... Europe is getting over its experiment with Diesel after the whole VW-gate thing, for years they were driving diesels that were polluting more than gas/petrol cars in the US were allowed to.
  - akgerber 6y ago
    Europe, for decades, promoted diesel cars for the sake of fuel efficiency in the erroneous belief that effective car-scale emissions filtration could be developed. The US didn't, and gasoline car exhaust, while still terrible for human health, is much better than diesel exhaust. This has improved dramatically in recent years with truck/bus filtration systems, electrification, and car bans (or dirty car bans) in European city centers.
- jschwartzi 6y ago
  Now that the din of the freeway has been reduced here it's been replaced by the sound of everyone's noisy exhaust. I'm debating sitting on the front porch at night with a paintball marker and firing away at anyone with a loud exhaust.
- dmitrygr 6y ago
  ha, if only, but no: https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13651106/electric-car-noise-nhtsa-rule-blind-pedestrian-safety https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13651106/electric-car-no...

andai 6y ago

I was being kept awake by loud traffic the other day and suddenly realized, in my lifetime, that sound will probably go away, replaced by quiet electromotors -- along with the smell!

wffurr 6y ago
It could be replaced today largely by bicycles. $30,000 electric cars and charging infrastructure not required.
duxup 6y ago
> along with the smell! I grew up in rural US. I took a few trips to Europe and to date the smell of car / bus exhaust reminds me of European cities. It's not a pleasant smell but the memories are pleasant. Weird that in the US I just never associated big cities that I visited here with it as much I did with my trips to Europe.
- ben7799 6y ago
  This is cause the cars are actually cleaner here... Europe is getting over its experiment with Diesel after the whole VW-gate thing, for years they were driving diesels that were polluting more than gas/petrol cars in the US were allowed to.
- akgerber 6y ago
  Europe, for decades, promoted diesel cars for the sake of fuel efficiency in the erroneous belief that effective car-scale emissions filtration could be developed. The US didn't, and gasoline car exhaust, while still terrible for human health, is much better than diesel exhaust. This has improved dramatically in recent years with truck/bus filtration systems, electrification, and car bans (or dirty car bans) in European city centers.
jschwartzi 6y ago
Now that the din of the freeway has been reduced here it's been replaced by the sound of everyone's noisy exhaust. I'm debating sitting on the front porch at night with a paintball marker and firing away at anyone with a loud exhaust.
dmitrygr 6y ago
ha, if only, but no: https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13651106/electric-car-noise-nhtsa-rule-blind-pedestrian-safety https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13651106/electric-car-no...