I'm hard of hearing, and car noise significantly decreases my quality of life. Almost anywhere you go in the city, there's too much traffic noise for us to talk

I'm hard of hearing, and car noise significantly decreases my quality of life. Almost anywhere you go in the city, there's too much traffic noise for us to talk. Meet at a coffeeshop or something and there's too much noise inside to talk. So I too was really looking forward to electric cars, and dismayed by this. The worst was hearing about a push to make quiet cars illegal -- yes, that might be the best practical safety measure in the current state of the art, I don't know, but must we stop all innovation? Is there no other imaginable way to address the problem? (I don't know how much quieter a street full of electric cars would actually be. Would like to find out.)