New electric vehicles will have to feature a noise-emitting device,

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New electric vehicles will have to feature a noise-emitting device,

New electric vehicles will have to feature a noise-emitting device, under an EU rule coming into force on Monday. Now I’ve heard it all, so if I ever I get an electric car, I’m going to make mine sound like a 500 Manx Norton revving to 8000 RPM on an open Megga!


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48815968
 
It will still go towards helping t cart blanch he old biddy’s walk across the road quicker, as they think they have carte blanche to cross the road where they like, not on a Pedestrian / pelican crossing since they cannot see it’s there!
 
Speaking of speaking of “old biddies” - I find the mobility scooters a significant hazard when in town. Full speed down the high street on a busy Saturday whilst expecting everyone to get out of the way of a SILENT ELECTRIC VEHICLE - the shape of things to come?
 
I was nearly runover by a Tesla once for this very reason, so I do ‘get it’ think it’s a good idea overall.

But I LOVE the irony... governments have spent decades beating the auto industry, legislating for ever quieter products... when they finally achieve their aim and get a really quite one, they legislate to make it noisy !!!
 
The Rolls Royce Ghost is a pretty quiet car...

Over a hundred years ago Harley-Davidson amazed the public with "The Silent Gray Fellow".
 
Fast Eddie said:
I was nearly runover by a Tesla once for this very reason, so I do ‘get it’ think it’s a good idea overall.
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I wanted to cross the road in my village and that electric single seater spider car from Renault nearly killed me, and I mean outright.
 
The Harley Live Wire was engineered with a gear drive specifically to make some noise.
 
When I was at the TT last month I wanted to sneak into one of the TT Zero Interest tents and clothes peg some cigarette cards into the spokes.
 
Sound is like a funeral procession going by.
What a horrible sound - leave it to bureaucrats to come up with pure crap.

Why not go back to the future?
People love horses, lets bring back the sounds of horses walking down the road.
Horse hooves on concrete, with periodic (every 10 seconds or so) flatulence, an intermittent whinny, or neigh.
All the pleasant aspects of equines without the horsesh**.

 
I'm sure with time, hackers will come up with customizable sounds.
Like turbine sounds, like the turbine cars manufacturers told us back in the 60's that we would have by 1980.
All manner and variety of sounds will be possible:
V8
Ferrari V12
Merlin V12
Harley V twin.
Ring Ding 2 stroke
Idling NHRA top fuel dragster
Steam Engine
Stuka diver bomber

If you can imagine it, it can be programmed.
 
A Pzkw Vl would be good or a RR Merlin winding up. Both have that attention grabbing sound, or a well strung Command going through it's paces because we all look up for that.
 
At the ebike race following the Indy MotoP a few years ago, all you could hear was chain noise and tires as the 400-volt factory specials flew past start/finish at 170 mph. And I was just over the hot pit wall, not in the stands.

My racer buddy said he was amazed during his first e-race because he could actually hear the public address system speakers as he lapped the track.
 
Danno said:
At the ebike race following the Indy MotoP a few years ago, all you could hear was chain noise and tires as the 400-volt factory specials flew past start/finish at 170 mph. And I was just over the hot pit wall, not in the stands.

My racer buddy said he was amazed during his first e-race because he could actually hear the public address system speakers as he lapped the track.
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They are super quiet.

On the FIA Formula E broadcast coverage you can hear the rattle of bodywork as the cars brake and go through the corners.
Rattle is reminiscent of soap box derby racers.
The whine of the electric motors is not unlike the sound of hobby slot cars from the 60's.
 
All they have to do is run one or two laps, and "self identify" it as a "race." Hold eight or ten such one lap "races" and call it a series, and a championship. Then, tell the fans, who complain because they expect at least 10 laps per race that they're awful bad people, that they are "denialists" for resenting that their spectator entrance fees only bought them one or two laps of spectating.
 
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