Electric vs Gas
xkcd.com

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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

  • RustyNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    153·
    5 months ago

    I don’t see how making noise is good. I live in a street that doesn’t get much traffic, but even one car is loud enough to be bothering.

    I don’t want to pause my music and conversations just because someone decided that vroom vroom sounds were more important than me hearing literally anything else.

    Even more that noise pollution is definitely a thing, and affect both mental health and physical one.

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      The majority of sound for cars are not the motor but the wheels compressing air, after I think 50kph, the sound of an ev or a ic is basically the same.

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Well, in a neighborhood, cars won’t always be driving 50 km/h. And the engine will be especially loud, when they need to accelerate after a turn or whatever.

        Either way, I do hear the difference when an electric car goes by.

    • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
      35·
      5 months ago

      Vehicles making noise actually is good, for pedestrians’ sake, but yeah ICE vehicles make far more than they need to. Some (? many? I’m not sure how standard it is) electric vehicles make a sort of beeping sound for that reason.

      • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        If you’re in an area where pedestrians may be crossing the road, traffic should be slow enough to use permeable brick pavers, which increase road noise, help with rainwater drainage, and add a little green to the road if find right.

        • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
          23·
          5 months ago

          Well that sounds cool; what about those of us who live in conservative hellscapes? I’m pretty sure ‘road maintenance’ is a sin here

          • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
            4·
            4 months ago

            I dunno, maybe take their conservative advice and violently overthrow your government?

            Real talk, you’ll have a hell of a time arguing for the upgrades, but even so, I only suggest switching to bricks when the road needs to be resurfaced anyway. The road works well enough as-is, this is just an improvement.

            • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              4 months ago

              Oh, the road needs resurfacing, most of them here do. Decades of conservative government will do that

              • Liz@midwest.socialEnglish
                2·
                4 months ago

                When you’ve inevitably barricaded yourself in city hall, just remember: we never met, this conversation didn’t happen. Revan? Never heard of 'em.