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Above ~30 km/h the noise of a car is mainly from the wheels etc., not the motor. Trust me, you don't want to live next to a highway even if all the cars on it a
by matsemann 9mo ago
Above ~30 km/h the noise of a car is mainly from the wheels etc., not the motor. Trust me, you don't want to live next to a highway even if all the cars on it are electric!
- xiomrze 9mo agoAdd honking, brakes squeals, people blasting music with open windows, etc.
- 1970-01-01 9mo agoEVs use regen for 99.09% of stops. Honking and loud music is a street problem and has nothing to do with cars. In the horse and carriage days, drivers would be required to carry a bell and whistle to move your butt out of their way.
- 1970-01-01 9mo agoSaying EVs are still too loud, trust me is the knife's edge of complaining to complain. Just take the win.
- matsemann 9mo agoWhich "win"? There were multiple complaints here, not just noise. These EV incentives have actively hampered other goals and projects for a decade, one could argue it's a net loss.
- 1970-01-01 9mo agoEV road noise is not a valid and mature complaint for stifling EV adoption.
- antonvs 9mo agoThe point is not about "stifling EV adoption", it's reducing problematic levels of over-dependence on cars in general. EVs don't solve all the issues that cars raise. Noise is a relevant factor in that discussion, not compared to internal combustion engines[1], but compared to fewer cars in general. [1] The acronym for this did not age well
- amanaplanacanal 9mo agoThey don't solve all problems, but they do make solving the "too much CO2 cooks the planet" problem easier. I'm all for fewer cars too!
- matsemann 9mo agoGood thing I had other arguments and a whole article linked as well, then?
- mahkeiro 9mo agoI lived near a train line with a train every 5-15m 24h, Trust me, you don’t want to live near it either…
- jcgl 9mo agoYeah, that has societal cost too, to be sure. Which implies prima facie that such infra (roadways, high-frequency train lines) should be minimized. Since the throughout of mass transit is so much higher (iow, the societal cost per-user), mass transit is a better way to minimize those costs than cars.
- seanmcdirmid 9mo agoWhen I was looking for a house in Seattle, I checked out a nice townhome in Wallingford beneath the I5 ship canal bridge that had a great view of the city. But this was during COVID and the noise was still horrible, so I noped out of that quickly. It was all tire noise.