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Normal Operating Sounds
- camhart 3y ago> Cabin Noise during Acceleration with Ludicrous Enabled This one is pretty good.
- xyst 3y agoThe sound of a teenager driving dad’s midlife crisis just moments before smashing into the side of a building
- dclowd9901 3y agoI didn’t hear a corvette?
- speedgoose 3y agoSo the sound of the impact is how you distinguish the sound of an old corvette with an automatic transmission and the sound of a GM powered boat as both their engines are from the same family?
- Arson9416 3y agoLet people enjoy things :)
- golem14 3y agoI wonder if this from the spaceballs movie and whether they had to license the sound ...
- andirk 3y agoI don't get it. OK there are sounds to let you know the car is falling apart constantly, but this one is ambient sound of people encouraging you to accelerate??
- yreg 3y agoIt's a joke. That clip is supposed to be your passengers.
- andirk 3y agoI still don't understand. Is that a feature of the vehicle or not? Is this an April Fool's joke or is there a setting that cheers on the driver while accelerating? I see some individuals took insult to my question. Some of the sounds are pings and pops and knocks to mimic a combustable engine. What is this sound for?
- freediver 3y agoProps to the person/team owning docs at Tesla. This made Tesla as a brand more humane in my book.
- vachina 3y agoThought the car would actually play that sound effect on Ludicrous mode.
- newaccount74 3y agoThis is the kinda good natured fun that I really liked Tesla for before they announced an armored vehicle that's designed in a way to increase the likelihood of accidentally running over your kids playing in the driveway.
- sneak 3y agoAlternately, it’s designed in a way that almost all trucks and SUVs in the US are designed, in a way that is generally expected/preferred by customers who buy those vehicles. I also don’t like it, but it’s not Tesla’s fault that that’s where the market is. I’ve heard from so many foolish people who don’t understand physics that they feel safer driving a big heavy vehicle and being up high. The armor has nothing to do with the height and sight lines; it’s also not anything specific to the Cybertruck. Even midsize SUVs now are so high up and boxy that you can’t see in front of the front bumper. I was in an Escalade or Expedition or Tahoe or something the other day on the way to JFK and noticed that the center console screen has an option to view a front-bumper-cam. It’s nuts. If this is truly a problem that needs affirmative fixing, it seems that auto industry regulation (which is already mandating cellular transceivers in vehicles, so it is definitely in scope) would be the place to address this. Expecting market participants to kneecap themselves in the face of clear market demand (especially whilst already fighting the risky and uphill battle that is EV adoption) is not fair or realistic. IMO it could be covered in giant sharp stainless steel hedgehog spikes and be nicknamed the Childslayer and it’s probably still less dangerous to our society than something that burns petrochemicals. If you want to regulate something for safety, ban the sale of gasoline/diesel and the use of internal combustion engines.
- maxlin 3y ago*Friends not included with purchase of Tesla(r) Vehicle
- danappelxx 3y ago“Cabin Noise during Acceleration with Ludicrous Enabled” was by far the most interesting
- rpmisms 3y agoAnd also incredibly accurate. I know Teslas are commonplace now, but the raw acceleration of an old Model S was seriously something to behold.
- jeffreygoesto 3y agoOn my very first onramp I nearly totaled it under the back of a heavy, slow truck. I was so used to flooring the pedal to get up to highway speed and totally unprepared for that instantaneous acceleration.
- noufalibrahim 3y agoWhat's the UX reason to use a chime rather than an (customisable) announcement? I suppose I'd get used to the alarms if I used the car but all of them on a page is confusing.
- bagels 3y agoText would take a lot longer to convey information than a short chime. You would also have to localize all the sounds.
- DrSAR 3y ago"TERRAIN, TERRAIN! whoop whoop PULL UP!" -- the makers of the Terrain Avoidance and Warning System (TAWS) thought that this extra information was useful. Maybe the timing is different or maybe it's just cultural.
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- tavavex 3y agoYeah, it's both an earlier development, and it also doesn't really apply fully. In almost all modern aircraft, aural alerts are only used for very dangerous situations that require immediate pilot action. However, there are still a lot of "abstract" sounds used, either where it occurs often (like autopilot disconnect) or where spelling it out isn't needed (like a generic warning or caution tone to bring attention to the display that describes the error)
- rootusrootus 3y agoNo localization necessary on that one, all commercial pilots are required to speak English.
- subroutine 3y agoConfirmation tones are used to convey that the car registered a deliberate user action (e.g. a button press). For example whenever you press the unlock button on your key fob, it would quickly become annoying if the car announced "The car is now locked". In the case of confirmation, you know what the tone is signaling, because you just performed the action to create the tone (and don't need a lecture about it). Mildly abrasive 'alert' tones are preferred for warnings over announcements because alerts typically require immediate action. You could follow the alert tone by an announcement but this is typically unnecessary because the the first time you hear it, the tone will be seared into your memory (e.g. you are messing with the radio and suddenly hear the lane departure warning or forward collision warning). And you really don't need to distinguish between them - they all basically mean "immediately allocate all cognitive resources towards driving this death machine safely".
- bigyikes 3y agoThis one is pretty cool and definitely surprised me. > Motor Humming or Whirring when Navigating to a Supercharger … > In some circumstances (such as cold weather), it is normal for the motor(s) and components to make noise, such as humming or whirring as it generates heat to warm the Battery. Super cool that the motors can be used for things other than moving the vehicle. It reminds me of how ESCs for RC vehicles use the motors to generate audible chirp tones to indicate status. Motors are multi-purpose devices!
- Waterluvian 3y agoI always thought about this growing up. How the engine’s heat is used directly to heat the cabin and there is no heater. Also my gaming PC in the winter. It feels like free compute given I’m heating anyways.
- bigyikes 3y ago> Also my gaming PC in the winter. It feels like free compute given I’m heating anyways. Totally. If it's cold and you have an idle rig, you might as well use it to run a crypto miner before reaching for an actual heater.
- xur17 3y agoAssuming you use electric resistive heat. The math changes a bit for gas or heat pumps.
- Rebelgecko 3y agoActual heating systems can be better than 100% efficient, while crypto mining or cinebench or whatever is <100%
- koverda 3y agowhat do you mean?
- Racing0461 3y agoFeels like a good opportunity to in addition to having the normal system diagnosis, have a process that listens to the sound the car makes and recommend bringing it into the shop if the sound sounds weird or off.
- mkranjec 3y agoSome ACs use exactly this method. Haven't found any other household appliances that use sound for diagnostics.
- dclowd9901 3y agoThis really is a tremendous idea and if vehicle software engineers were better they might actually be able to do it.
- alsodumb 3y agoSamsung appliances do this I think? Or some other brand. You basically call a number and then press a button on the appliance and it produces a sound that tells the customer service what's wrong.
- latchkey 3y agoAnyone mixed this into music?
- xcxcx 3y agoSome people deserve the Metaverse
- AYBABTME 3y agoThe loud "pops" at superchargers and when driving after supercharging surprised me for a while. I would stop to look under the car if I had hit something. The pops while charging are sort of self-explanatory, but those while driving took me a while to associate back to the prior supercharging. Basically, changes in temperatures are causing the pops. It's kind of weird and slightly annoying. Sometimes it happens for quite a bit after charging, particularly when driving through changing climate (i.e. climbing mountains). Having done Reno/SF round trips a good few times now, I've gotten used to it.
- jacquesm 3y agoWhat is the cause? Thermal expansion? I have a room in my attic that can make really loud bangs on hot summer nights (enough to scare the crap out of me when I am concentrating on something and do not expect them) when it contracts again after a day in the heat. The root cause there is stick slip: the thing doesn't move for a long time due to its weight so tension builds up and then suddenly it will shift a little and the whole structure amplifies the sound from the shockwave passing through it. Your 'pops' remind me of that (and supercharging must have some thermal effects).
- Kirby64 3y agoSimilar mechanism as your attic noises. There's a giant metal plate on the bottom of the thing, so all the heat generated while it's supercharging (in a very cold environment) causes that 'snap' which makes a loud noise. Same thing happens if you've ever heated up a thin metal baking sheet. It'll 'snap' from one position to another and make a horrible racket. Same thing apparently happens if you are heavy on regenerative braking when descending a mountain pass. Cold air, plus 50kW+ of regen braking is similar to just supercharging the car.
- timeimp 3y agoThese are gonna be the new SFX in the modding community, I guarantee it.
- orangepurple 3y agoLoading this page causes the tab to crash with SIGTRAP on Chromium 119.0.6045.159 Linux
- wildrhythms 3y agoSame, it immediately crashes upon loading. On Windows with Chrome 119.0.6045.160 [Edit] Figured out Dark Reader extension is causing the crash. I turned it off for that specific site and it no longer crashes. Very strange.
- jakebasile 3y agoSame here. I've had other weird interactions with Dark Reader before - one was where minecraft.net refused to let me log in until I turned off Dark Reader.
- tkanarsky 3y agoI always get Access Denied errors when using dark reader on pages hosted by Akamai
- Nekorosu 3y agoI'm so waiting for a techno track made out of those.
- synaesthesisx 3y agoIt's astounding just how quiet EV's are; they can make you hyperaware of other noises (hence why this page exists).
- smt88 3y agoIs this universal? I've driven the Rav4 Prime and Ioniq 5 extensively and neither made weird sounds.
- kccqzy 3y agoI've driven the Ioniq 5 and I can easily hear a high pitched motor whine at speeds between 45 and 60 mph. I cannot hear any noise below 45 or above 60, other than the intentional pedestrian warning sound. I suspect as I age my ability to hear such high pitched whine will be gone.
- numpad0 3y agoThe fact that this page exists feel like they're having a lot of creaking/rattling complaints. Why else have it.
- gregoriol 3y agoIt would highly depend on the brand and model: one would expect Rolls-Royce EVs or even some like Lexus not to make any annoying noises.
- golem14 3y agothere are many "similar" chime noises for entirely different warnings on this page (no seatbelts; proximity alarms, ...). I'm not sure what is a good UI here, but I feel that this ain't it.
- a-dub 3y agoi wonder if they've put any effort in having the car listen to itself and explain ordinary sounds (and alert on problematic ones).
- miki123211 3y agoToday I learned. The Tesla owner's manual has alt descriptions for its images. They're not good alt descriptions, but they are there. In fact, it is one of the most screen reader accessible manuals for any device I've ever seen, most are some weird PDF abominations where all the button names are replaced by their unlabeled icons. Even devices made specifically for the blind have these issues sometimes. This? This is just perfectly readable HTML. It's especially ironic considering that Teslas (as far as I know) aren't accessible in any way. Even the infotainment system, which a blind person might want to use, for example when waiting for a sighted acquaintance in the car, does not have a screen reader and is not in any way usable.
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- tavavex 3y agoI don't think that there are any cars that are accessible in the way you've mentioned. It seems like too niche of a use case in exchange for more complexity and time to develop. These systems are usually built for drivers first and foremost, so them being able to see is an assumption that most can make.
- scandinavian 3y ago> Even the infotainment system, which a blind person might want to use, for example when waiting for a sighted acquaintance in the car, does not have a screen reader and is not in any way usable. It has really excellent voice commands for pretty much any function though. Sadly it can only be triggered by pressing the right scroll wheel on the wheel. While possible to just reach over, it's probably not optimal for your suggested use case.
- rpmisms 3y agoMy previous car, a 2014 Model S, had my favorite acceleration sound of any car: a guttural whine in a perfect third, ascending as speed increased, and louder as load increased. It's the only thing I miss after upgrading to a Model 3. Well, that and the ability to do burnouts. Confused quite a few people doing that.
- 1-6 3y agoI hope one day, Tesla would use these sounds to troubleshoot and perform preventative maintenance.
- rootusrootus 3y agoWhat would be the point? The car has a huge number of more accurate sensors for nearly every thing you can think of. If you're bored go look at some of the errors people have posted. It measures a huge number of variables directly that will indicate an issue well before ambient noise will.
- bhasi 3y ago"Creaking From the Tires or Brakes" I don't have a Tesla, but I hear this sound in my own car, especially now that it's winter. I began hearing this after my recent car service that involved a ~real~ rear brakes replacement. When I took my car to the service guy, it was afternoon and I was no longer able to reproduce the noise. This was driving me crazy until now! I now know it's nothing to worry about.
- kazinator 3y agoSounds like break-in of new brake pads.
- CraigJPerry 3y agoI’m not sure I agree with Tesla on this diagnosis. To me that sound is metal rubbing against metal with friction. Before I investigated pads and discs, my first port of call would have been any ball joints. I don’t know the typical Tesla suspension make up but if there’s any bottom ball joint at the control arm / wheel carrier interface or tie-rod end, then that would be first. Either way, definitely sounded like a failing ball joint to me. I’d want to visually inspect the dust boots for cracks, use a pick to check it’s still fully packed with healthy grease, then with wheels in the air, manipulate the wheel - hands at 12 o clock and 6 o clock, rock back and forth (testing bottom ball joint). Hands at 3 and 9 o clock (testing tie rod end). Of course brake pads on discs can also fit the profile of “metal rubbing against metal with friction” but in that particular recording… unless the audio has been messed with (which from listening to some other clips I think they have applied some hi and lo cut with roll off in post)
- kuerbel 3y agoThis one is normal (every tesla I know of does this, ymmv of course). However their older model 3 and y were equipped with some very shoddy engineered suspension arms which, over time, started to creak because water can enter them. Also all the water from the front window was/is distributed more or less directly over the suspension arms. Newer models have somewhat better suspension arms equipped.
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- bottlepalm 3y agoThis owners manual is pretty nice in general.
- andreygrehov 3y agoI own Model Y and "High-Pitched Whining Noise while Accelerating" is my favorite sound. I hear it pretty much every day and it never gets old. I wonder if other EVs make that sound, but it's just incredible.
- rootusrootus 3y agoWe used to have a Bolt, and it had some whine. My '19 P3D had a lot of whine at full tilt, and my '23 3LR has a good bit as well. My guess is all EVs have it to some extent. I kinda want the ability to have that piped into the car. Make it sound like an R/C car.
- ngcazz 3y agoSafari is AFAICT the strictest browser in terms of ensuring no audio plays on a page until a user interaction triggers, and yet _all_ the sounds on this page played when I opened it. Confusing, to say the least!
- verisimi 3y agoIt should be possible to update the audio files and volume settings to express a totally different driving experience.
- Angostura 3y agoThe entry for 'Cabin Noise during Acceleration with Ludicrous Enabled' is very droll
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- wolframhempel 3y agoNow make the same page for Ladas.
- bad_alloc 3y agoRenaults unofficial slogan is " tous les jours un bruit nouveau", which means "every day a new noise". ... which is not that wrong with the Zoe. Especially the E-brake has some bark to it.
- jonplackett 3y agoI give it to them that Cabin Noise during Acceleration with Ludicrous Enabled is a nice touch.
- pests 3y agoDefinitely not what I was expecting but hilarious.
- morgunkorn 3y agoIt also made me laugth :D However, there is no ludicrous mode available on the Model 3 and they just copy pasted that from the Model S documentation
- pests 3y agoInterestingly the "Creaking From the Tires or Brakes" has a second or two of some random words. Wonder what that was. Any others with extra audio?
- anskia 3y agobackground: I had a model 3 for a couple of years and now have a Y ( no longer have the 3). The 3s are insanely quiet. The Y is ok but has a whistle at certain cruising speeds (90-100km/h). But when they are supercharging they are both ridiculously loud. Like having AC on full bore. Also starting a charge makes the most bangs and pops, regardless of the charger type. I just finished a 2000km drive and slept in the back on a sleeping mat. Sometimes I parked right next to the highway where trucks were flying past. It was almost silent inside, they really are well insulated from external noise.
- rootusrootus 3y agoI think maybe you just got lucky. My first Model 3 was sort of quiet (just wind noise, Model 3s and Ys are quite loud compared to other similar cars). My current model 3 (a 2023 model) has a whistle at highway speeds that I haven't been able to isolate. Along with a fluttering sound, which may be related, and sounds like it's coming from the passenger side mirror area. The next Model 3 ("Highland") uses laminated glass in the rear windows, whereas the current one just uses it for the front. Should be the quietest yet.
- thirtyseven 3y agoI've seen a Model 3 with very similar sounds coming from the passenger side mirror. There was a loose piece sticking out of the bottom, pushing it back in fixed it.
- neffo 3y agoAnd yet, no fart?
- seeekr 3y agocheeky one: "Cabin Noise during Acceleration with Ludicrous Enabled" (https://service.tesla.com/docs/Public/om_media/plaid_reactions.mp4 https://service.tesla.com/docs/Public/om_media/plaid_reactio...) :D
- mangamadaiyan 3y agoEven more cheeky that the name of the audio file is "plaid_reaction*" :)
- londons_explore 3y agoIf I was the engineering team, I would be trying to eliminate all these noises. Every single one of these could be engineered away. For example the pops and bangs at a supercharger is the metal shield deforming when heated. Instead, it should have circular ridges stamped into it around the fixing points to let it expand against the springiness of the steel. The clunk noise from brakes could be engineered away by using stainless steel spring clips to prevent the pads being able to wiggle around in the calipers (used by many manufacturers already). The clunk from the contactors opening/closing could be engineered away by having the contactors open/close far slower - with a proper precharge, no current is flowing, so there is no longevity benefit of fast close/open. Or... decide not to have contactors at all - I don't really see any reason they're needed, just keep the high voltage system always energized and design all the other components to have a suitably low leakage current. For maintenance and emergency de-energization, have a manual lever or a pyro-fuse.
- benhurmarcel 3y agoOf course there are ways to eliminate most noises. But at some point it’s not worth the cost.
- astrea 3y agoRight. As they’re clearly cutting costs at their current price point /s
- grey_earthling 3y agoI suppose it depends on whether their more important goal is to provide the best possible service to their customers, or to make the most possible profit.
- two_handfuls 3y agoYes? Tesla historically cuts costs as much as possible, putting all the focus on an excellent electric engine and batteries. Everything else takes a second seat. For example they removed the ultrasonic parking sensors. They removed the radar. In the next revision, they removed the stalks in favor of buttons on the steering wheel to control the blinkers. The car is still expensive, but that’s down to in part batteries and the tech still being somewhat pricey, and in part just profit (contrast to e.g. Ford selling their cars at a loss).
- jerrygenser 3y agoLove the expected noise while in ludicrous mode
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- junon 3y ago> Cabin Noise during Acceleration with Ludicrous Enabled Cute little Easter egg.
- foobarbecue 3y ago"You may hear this noise when you press the accelerator pedal with Ludicrous (if equipped) enabled. See for more information." See what?
- krunck 3y agoAre there many car-hypochondriacs?
- peterleiser 3y agoPlaying the sounds "Navigate on Autopilot" through "Traffic-Aware Cruise Control" sounds like the song "Oh! Susanna"
- warner25 3y agoI'd love to see the same collection of sounds and authoritative explanations for the Prius. I own a Gen II, and it makes a lot of interesting noises. After 15+ years I've learned what sounds are normal, but I still don't know what most of them are.
- smeej 3y agoI think I would happily pay money for an archive of high-quality recordings of what various problems sound like, in a variety of cars. It would really be nice not to have to go in and try to imitate the sound to my mechanic, and it would help give me an idea what the repair ought to cost. I've spent thousands of dollars on misdiagnosed (or misrepresented) "repairs," and it would be great to get a diagnosis from the mechanic, look it up, and say, "No, it doesn't sound a thing like that."
- water-your-self 3y agoI have fond memories of car talk on NPR.
- graphe 3y agohttps://youtu.be/RKT-sKtR970 https://youtu.be/RKT-sKtR970 Check out this engine sound simulator. Perhaps a preconfiguration of this?
- smeej 3y agoThat would be a great help!...whenever it's an engine issue. Or when it's a failure of one of the parts of the engine. Recent sounds I've tried to imitate have included "I got a bad tank of gas that was 20% water, and it's January in New England, and ice is pinging around," "I think my muffler has a leak," and "Maybe one of my wheel bearings is going bad?" I drive a 17-year-old car with 225k miles on it because I don't want to drive anything made after the advent of smartphones, so I get to make lots of funny noises. The muffler one and the wheel bearing seem like they should have been findable!
- kasdi 3y agoAfter listening to a few dozen chimes and confusing some of them I can't help but wonder why we accept technology to communicate to us in this crude way. Why not make it talk to us, "too fast", "too close", "hand brake active", etc.? Might want to keep chimes for emergency warnings where speech would be too slow, although there's an argument to be made that speech would still be better, since jarring chimes might scare you so much that you take just as much if not more time until you've identified the emergency.
- schwarzp53n 3y agoTank U https://soundcloud.com/rose-black-726613886/some-tesla-operation-sounds https://soundcloud.com/rose-black-726613886/some-tesla-opera...