I stood at the curb and listened as our friend climbed into the driver’s seat and slammed the door. I waited to hear the Prius hum into life and move forward. I heard the chatter of sparrows; the distant roar of a leaf blower; and, after a minute or two, the opening of the car door.“I did start,” our friend answered. “I drove down to the end of the block, and then I backed past you and drove up in front of you again.” I felt a cold sense of dread. I thought, we’ve got a real problem.
Without real-world data proving that quiet cars could be dangerous, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the federal agency charged with reducing deaths, injuries, and economic losses on the nation’s roadways, could do nothing. The breakthrough came later in the decade, when the N.H.T.S.A. investigated crash rates for hybrids and E.V.s in incidents involving sighted pedestrians and cyclists, and compared those with crash rates for I.C.E. vehicles in similar incidents.
Many electrical appliances make sounds, although few are scored by famous composers. My family’s seven-piece kitchen ensemble, for example—dishwasher, electric oven, microwave, refrigerator and freezer, electric kettle, and coffee maker—creates a discordant symphony of simple beeps, tones, and chimes of clashing frequencies and rhythms throughout the day to inform us when the machines have begun or completed the particular tasks they were designed for. An acoustic ecosystem it’s not.
When the researchers first began working with Renault, Misdariis told me, the collaborators struggled to find a common language in which to talk about acoustic design. “When a graphic designer says to you, ‘This is a red triangle,’ there is no different interpretation possible,” he said.
For the answer, simply play Rocket League and find out. You can customize your engine sound for every car.
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This one got by the fact checkers: there were no Camaros built between 2003 and 2008.
Should it have its own virtue signal?
You still need to be able to hear cars clearly when walking, biking etc…especially true of children.
Infrastructure will fail.
A cacaphony? Buddy I will be happy if Stacy is not eating Amanda for sustenance and to steal her spot so she can enroll Preston in childcare for twenty thousand dollars a month. Fuck a car noise. I am worried about collapse of society RN also pistachio not year-round Starbucks
Even though this is a well-written, well-researched and documented article, I was very disappointed that there was not one sound file included in the online version. Not one.
Nine-thousand pounds?!? It had better sound like an air-raid klaxon to the potential-roadkill pedestrians nearby.
newyorker_nb wait, what? Did I miss something
🚦 On the other hand ..
My song to SpeakerPelosi did you make it outta Taiwan and don't let this go to your head - me worrying about you more THAN me WORRYING about some DICTATOR prick telling us what to do - ok DeptofDefense PentagonPresSec HARRISFAULKNER FaulknerFocus OutnumberedFNC POTUS
jmseabrook It should continuously apologize for destroying the roadbed. Who needs a 4.5 ton car?
jmseabrook Electric vehicles have a bright future and huge development space.😆
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