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Recently drove a Tesla Model S P85D... best thing about it is that the torque is immediate and silent. Not only can you blow other cars away at lights, you can
by mikepalmer 12y ago
Recently drove a Tesla Model S P85D... best thing about it is that the torque is immediate and silent. Not only can you blow other cars away at lights, you can do it casually, with no noise or fuss. Car is here; put car over there. It's like piloting a UFO.
- aidenn0 12y agoThe article makes it sound like that is going to have to go away, if laws are passed to make electrics play fake engine noise.
- ferrari8608 12y agoI just wonder, why does it have to be engine noise in particular? If I saw a Tesla, Leaf, Volt, etc. I wouldn't expect any engine or exhaust noise. Beeping, maybe.
- Svip 12y agoBeeping? Like a lorry backing up? Even a low pitch beeping would become annoying pretty quickly. It should just be a sort of hum.
- ferrari8608 12y agoA hum would work just as well. I was just trying to think of a noise I would expect from an electric device, and beeping was the first thing that came to mind. It's better than coil whine at least.
- gpvos 12y agoLorries are switching to white noise instead of beeping, because humans hear that better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa28lIGuxq8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa28lIGuxq8
- fizx 12y agoI'd love Tesla to license https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdWswvLPdE0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdWswvLPdE0
- davegardner 12y agoI expect there'll be a new set of businesses built up around custom engine noises. If the manufactures don't make it easy to load your own MP3, then you'll probably be able to take it to a car mod specialist.
- anon4 12y agoExpect to hear this a lot more often then https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI6nc3aH_pI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI6nc3aH_pI
- iliis 12y agoDomino's Pizza did something like this with their electric scooters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n17B_uFF4cA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n17B_uFF4cA
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- smileysteve 12y agoClassical music would be pretty awesome.
- robin_reala 12y agoBenny Hill theme, played at a speed that matches the car’s speed.
- JetSpiegel 12y agoI'd prefer La Cucaracha
- brazzy 12y agoYou see a car, you expect engine noise, that's all.
- ctdonath 12y agoI have a Leaf. The sound is precisely what you'd expect for "electric car noises".
- yaeger 12y agoDon't you see any problem with the silence in terms of safety? There is a reason bicycles need to have a bell. Because these you also cannot hear when they approach you. Although, it would be funny seeing a Tesla with a nice little bell and the tacked on law that you have to use it to alarm others in front of you that you are approaching. That'll be a sight to behold.
- Svip 12y agoI was once almost hit by a Tesla, because I didn't hear it coming. Fortunately, the driver noticed I wasn't aware of his presence and slowed down.
- tlrobinson 12y agoMy car has "cutout valves" on the exhaust which can bypass the muffler (making it louder), and I've noticed an interesting phenomenon: the car actually seems faster (to it's occupants) when it's in the quieter mode. I've dynoed it in both modes, the torque and horsepower curves are nearly identical, so it's not actually faster.
- digi_owl 12y agohttp://www.gizmag.com/soundracer-vx-sound-racer/34898/ http://www.gizmag.com/soundracer-vx-sound-racer/34898/ The tester claims that the beefier engine noise made him a more aggressive driver, or something of that nature.
- burger_moon 12y agoThey you don't have enough backpressure to need a cutout valve. Why even have it on there at that point?
- tlrobinson 12y agoI like the sound (and I'm shameless about it).
- mabbo 12y agoI was a passenger in a Model S my friend owns the other day. The biggest thing I noticed was that we were able to have a conversation at very normal volume levels. I had never noticed that I always needed to speak up in a car- until I didn't need to.
- kbenson 12y agoI wouldn't mind some auditory feedback on engine performance, it can be very useful. I definitely don't want it to be simulated noise that's meant to approximate some fictional engine. Making it specific to what it is for and embedding more useful audio clues within it would be good (along with the ability to easily disable). As someone who's owned a few older cars, the sound is one of the most useful early diagnostic tools. It tells you immediately how the engine is running. Often you can tell the difference between a cold engine and a hot engine running. Losing this entirely isn't necessarily a good thing, but neither is faking it, which is the worst of both worlds, no useful information conveyed (beyond possibly RPMs, depending on implementation) but noise nonetheless.