Electric cars have to make noise on purpose because otherwise it would be a silent car. And most of these noises are are weird futuristic WEEEE-00000 UFO sounds. Therefore I posit that we should be able to change the noises our electric cars make
EDIT: These suggestions are Top-Notch! Keep em coming!
I want to do this very thing if/when I have an electric car. I specifically want that old school cartoon jalopy sound. Put put put put BANG BANG put put put put
Horn goes arOOga.
This reminded me of how I read the Grapes of a Wrath in its entirety before learning that it’s ja-LOP-ee, not JA-la-pee. Also, “oncet” is not On-set, it’s wunst.
Wunst!? I know the joke with reading something before hearing it is you won’t always be right but wunst??? vaguely gestures at everything😩😂😩
It’s a regional way of saying “once.” As in, “oncet I finish this, I’ll start on that.” The spelling is a crime though.
that’s mostly what I was getting at lol. who came up with that spelling??
If I had an electric car, I’d turn my sound into Jeremy Clarkson yelling “POWER, MORE POWER!!!” over and over again so people would know I’m coming.
This is a you think you want this but you don’t moment. If this is allowed you will constantly hear ads or people saying check out my channel at annoying.TV as they use driverless cars to circle your block.
They already do that with moving billboards. In my neighborhood the billboards are louder than my tv at half volume. Really pisses me off when they roll by.
That vehicle seems to have six vulnerable tires.
I see three and can imagine where a fourth would be, but where are the 5th and 6th?
Double tires in the back.
Double tires in the rear.
Slightly behind the front ones, they do seem to be slightly obstructed from view though.
https://billboards-n-motion.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/GregHart-002-2048x957.jpg
These seem to be the same trucks from the same company, so the other guy saying double wheels in back is more likely correct
What the fuck, is this real? Moving billboards that make noise? That is just fucking insane
That’s a great idea! I would just record myself making car noises and use that.
That’s the best idea!
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I’d finally have a use for all those ringtones I bought in the 2000s
8-bit linkin park here I come!
Motorola put out pc software that allowed you to transfer any mp3 file you had to your phone and use it as a ringtone. AFAIK it only worked with their devices, but it felt awesome doing that and then checking how much money I didn’t just spend.
I used to have the circus music (Entry Of The Gladiators) as my ringtone in my Razr.
I wish we could bring back custom ring tones. Some people use the same sound for calls that I use for wake-up alarms. It’s jarring when I hear it, especially since my phone likes to fuck around on its own in my pocket sometimes (even though I use a biometric lock, it still finds a way.)
What do you mean “bring back”? At least with Android, any audio file you can transfer to your device can be used as a ringtone.
You can do this with any android phone and probably any iphone. My text notification is the “!” Alert noise from Metal Gear Solid.
Do you have one of those old people limited phones or something? Every phone supports custom ringtones lol.
I have an iPhone, about 5 years old.
You can load your own ringtones, but you have to use a Mac or Windows computer with iTunes. I did this years ago to help my old rocker mum to have Born To Be Wild as her ringtone on her iPhone (13?).
I’d argue the sound should be standardized across all models. It needs to be immediately recognizable to nearby pedestrians.
Just like this:
As someone who lives in a city and is constantly exposed to car noise: No.
Like, people have no idea how loud cars are. When I turn the volume of my ear buds to 100%, it hurts my ears. It’s so loud it’s uncomfortable. But when I’m riding my bike along the street to the city center, I can barely hear my podcasts, even at 100%
Just imagine what it was like 50 years ago. How did people live in such insane noise polution conditions. Getting rid of noise should be one good enough reason for ev switch
But when I’m riding my bike along the street to the city center, I can barely hear my podcasts, even at 100%.
Get something with noise cancelling.
That seems dangerous when riding a bike through a busy city. I intentionally wear these regular earbuds that don’t seal your ear airtight. I don’t like the feeling of having one of my senses completely cut off, especially when participating in traffic. That seems like a big security risk.
TBH it seems dangerous to listen to a podcast without oncoming traffic blaring through it, as fisch@lemmy.world wants.
The same content hurts your ears that you can’t hear in the city center?
I have this exact experience. To hear music on some busy streets, I have to turn the volume up to unhealthy levels (I stop listening at that point).
… How many hours have you spent here on earth ? Adaptative senses is a nifty feature which allows you to see better in the dark, listen in on quiet conversations, feel the texture of stuff and all of that only when it matters.
That doesn’t answer my question. Things can be different volumes and voice only productions are especially quiet.
It obviously needs to be the Jetson’s sound
I’m not suggesting the following is standard, but the specific sound my car makes allows for people to not just hear the car, but to also know what direction the sound is coming from. The sound is engineered this way.
Compare this with those utility trucks that have those signature “reverse/backing up” (beep…beep…beep) sounds. You can hear it, but it’s almost impossible to tell from what direction. It’s been a complaint by blind people, and there’s still worker incidents where they step into a moving path of a vehicle despite the sound.
You can even make sounds that work against this technique. Home audio systems use directional audio to give the effect of sounds being in certain locations. I wouldn’t want people to be able to change a car sound to something that is more dangerous.
I think that’s what the static sound is for. It doesn’t have a broken speaker it’s easier to hear where the truck is at
Under 20 I want choo-choo train noise, 20-50 would be tie fighter noise, over 50 flight of the valkyries.
Weird that no car manufacturer implemented some overpriced “car sound store” where you can change the obnoxious default UFO sound with another sound from a list for only $29.99 each
This is quite close: https://faq.bmwusa.com/s/article/BMW-ConnectedDrive-Upgrades-BMW-IconicSounds-Sport-Availability-UzXZE?language=en_US
You can buy a sound package addon in the BMW “Connected Shop”.
I’m of two minds about this. On one hand, I could drive a car that makes a TIE fighter sound, or the time machine DeLorean from Back to the Future.
On the other hand, someone could have their car make the Dumb and Dumber “most annoying sound in the world,” or just one long continuous wet fart, or pro-fascist propaganda. Or worse, something completely silent and incredibly dangerous.
Maybe if you could download special sound packs, like you can for GPSes. I bet Lucasfilm and Universal would go for that.
The sound from a car is mostly tire noise.
Not when you’re going slow
Then I don’t hear them at all.
That’s how they sneak up on you.
Goddam right.
True but that’s not relevant.
So we need noisemakers on gas and EV cars.
Yes because drivers of EVs hit pedestrians and this helps save lives.
If cars (EV and gas) are travelling at road speed, tires are the loudest sound. If cars (EV and gas) are traveling at very reduced speed, neither make a sound. I have no idea what you are talking about.
The engine and everything in an ICE car make sound at reduced speed. It’s not the loudest on new cars but its still like 40db. I have no idea what you are talking about.
I’m saying a gas car travelling at low speed doesn’t make a sound. Does it help if I repeat myself?
That’s wrong. It very much makes sound.
Would absolutely drive around with the spaceship noise from Scooby Doo.
You can but it takes some work
