you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And fully autonomous vehicles would be electric, so no noise increase

At low speed, most of the noise an ICE car produces is the engine. At high speeds, most of the noise is the tires on the road. At high speeds, electric and ICE cars are equally loud. At even higher speeds, they're even louder.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    Electric vehicles have to artificially add engine noise so people can hear them...

    Compared to ICE vehicles, they're silent. Whenever hybrids came out people kept getting hit because they couldn't hear them coming.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment