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At least they'll be quieter than the mopeds, I couldn't open my window in Paris due to the noise of hundreds of those things.
by _Wintermute 6y ago
At least they'll be quieter than the mopeds, I couldn't open my window in Paris due to the noise of hundreds of those things.
- amatecha 6y agoRight? I cannot stand the sound of these loud buzzing things speeding past nonstop. Very grating and honestly stressful to listen to constantly :(
- lostlogin 6y agoYour comment reminded me of the piss-take someone made of moped noise. Once the exhaust system has been modified it’s awful. https://youtu.be/0UotZ_ZLB5A https://youtu.be/0UotZ_ZLB5A
- caro_douglos 6y agoYour comment reminded me that whistle tips go woo [1] [1] https://youtu.be/zUXow3d3-b0 https://youtu.be/zUXow3d3-b0
- kube-system 6y agoThat’s just for decoration.
- nogabebop23 6y agoanyone bothered by these early in the morning should already be up making breakfast
- nkrisc 6y agoNot everyone works 9-5. Some people work odd hours so you can, for example, go to the hospital at 0200.
- codetrotter 6y agoThere’s another video kind of like this one that I saw once, but instead of an actually motorized bike they are riding on a conventional bicycle and playing a trumpet to make it sound like a motorcycle. I can’t find the video now but I think it was filmed in Brazil and the guys on the bicycle we’re like teenagers or something.
- RealStickman_ 6y agoNote that that's actually a trombone and not a trumpet, contrary to what the video title says.
- emteycz 6y agoThere are electric scooters (not push-bikes) in Prague, it's absolutely quiet. A better future awaits you!
- grugagag 6y agoI almost got run over by one of those quiet electric scooters. Using sound as a cue isn’t gonna be very useful and it’ll take a while to get used to these things
- felipemnoa 6y agoSeems to me that you are not looking both ways before crossing the street.
- emteycz 6y agoIt's so easy to forget! If only a scooter nearly ran me down, I had Tesla drivers rightfully shouting at me more than one time
- srtjstjsj 6y agoSounds like the drivers aren't.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoYour safety, especially avoiding being hit, effectively rests on mostly your own shoulders. That's why drivers learn defensive driving which teaches them they can get railed even when they have the right of way. "I only look up from my phone when I hear an engine, so they should be stopping for me!" and the fact that the driver shares some of the blame isn't much of a consolation once you're laying in a hospital bed. I also think it's a terrible justification for noise pollution. That said, I'd be totally down for a city center that was just silent scooters, and where accidents got your scooter license revoked for 6mos no questions asked. ;)
- grugagag 6y ago
- mlang23 6y agoSame here. However, I am thinking about the "loud pipes save lifes" nonsense. Loud pipes should simply be banned, and thats it. The argument always seems to be the same, for kids as well as for grown up bikers: "But they're just kids, they just wanna play!"
- olivermarks 6y agoDisagree. Banning things is rarely effective, can't be enforced and tends to make people install loud exhaust systems. I've seen far more confederate flags in California recently probably because of all the cancel culture efforts to ban them as an example. Also loud pipes actually do save biker lives, and I think as EV's start to break out of their niche market the manufacturers should have to build in some sort of pedestrian/cyclist/other motor vehicle awareness audio. Electric racing vehicles have to sound like wooping ice cream vans to compete so they don't kill marshals on track...link to VW hill climb EV(the perfect use of electric power - short run, altitude change acceleration) https://youtu.be/kAJaGAMWjHM https://youtu.be/kAJaGAMWjHM
- virgilp 6y ago"loud pipe save lives" has always struck me as such an egotistical, anti-social argument. Do you know what would save much more biker lives than loud pipes do? Limiting speed for 2-wheeled vehicles to 30mph, by construction. Somehow, I've seen exactly zero bikers that advocate that.
- olivermarks 6y agoThat's because it's a idiotic idea. A huge problem for bikers is getting out of the way of barely there car, suv and truck drivers looking at phones and drinking hot beverages. Accelerating away from these dangerous idiots is a major problem for cyclists too, who don't have the acceleration abilities of a m/c to get out of the way.. I used to always worry about red BMW drivers as being the most aggressive and worse drivers but these days a red prius is always a major red flag warning based on my experiences with them. Maybe attention wandering sensors and alerts should be put in silent hybrids and ev's to get the driver to be more considerate of those around them
- morsch 6y agoHere's a tip: Inevitably you'll sit outside in a restaurant, 3m from the street -- if you're lucky. Many streets in the Paris city center are one way, and many are on an incline. Pick one where the street slopes down. Most scooters will coast down relatively quietly. Conversely, avoid slopes going up. The locals don't seem to notice it.
- josefrichter 6y agoFirst world problems :-) How about moving to a quieter city? I personally hate "unnecessary" noise, like a neighbour drilling on Sunday morning, but I don't mind big cities buzz.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoThe third world still has to deal with the noise and pollution of cars.