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It’s an amazing boost to quality of living that most urban Americans don’t even realize they’re suffering from.
by presentation 2y ago
It’s an amazing boost to quality of living that most urban Americans don’t even realize they’re suffering from.
- ZoomerCretin 2y agoAnd suburban. At least in Texas, the road noise is inescapable, even in the early hours of the morning. It's never really silent.
- meyum33 2y agoIn reality the noise is mostly from tyres anyway. You don’t feel your neighborhood is actually quieter when most cars are EV. For me the really nice thing is kids that are barely taller than exhaust pipes or being carted are exposed to absolute ZERO emission. As a parent in a parking lot you feel much less stress.
- presentation 2y agoNot sure where you’ve experienced but when I was in Shanghai it was definitely noticeable, nowadays I’m in Tokyo and I can’t wait for all the mopeds and motorcycles in particular to get electrified.
- meyum33 2y agoCould be related to speed and asphalt and macadams. I travelled to Guangzhou a few months ago, the noise on the road is comparable to Beijing, despite having significantly higher proportion of EVs.
- ahartmetz 2y agoAFAIK engine noise dominates at city speeds and tire noise dominates at highway speeds. Just yesterday I was watching a car slow down from 100 km/h to 70, much more noticeable than I expected.
- jkmcf 2y agoIME, accelerating engine noise dominates, but at velocity tires are super loud on less than smooth roads — especially truck and SUV tires.