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My experience in Brazil and Uruguay is that since the 80s, cars have become much much quieter and also people don't honk as much. In Uruguay, especially, the b
by forinti 3y ago
My experience in Brazil and Uruguay is that since the 80s, cars have become much much quieter and also people don't honk as much.
In Uruguay, especially, the bus fleet was awful in the 80s and 90s. They were very old, made a lot of noise, and polluted like hell. There are many electric buses nowadays and the old Leylands are gone.
You don't see electric buses in Brazil and most of the noise comes from diesel buses and the small ones are the worst (I think this is regulatory failure, not a technical issue).
- rsynnott 3y agoIn a recent worrying sign that I’m turning into a grumpy old man, I got on a bus and was instinctively annoyed that it glided away more or less silently (it was a plug-in hybrid in battery mode). Double decker buses are _supposed_ to be noisy, damnit! (Back in the day they sounded like they were constantly about to explode, particularly if faced with even a minor hill; even pure diesel examples are a lot quieter these days…)