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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.

    • BarqsHasBite
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      12 days ago

      It’s incredible how certain people are conditioned to think the sound of a gas motor and shifting because your puny motor is out of optimal torque and rpm range are manly.

      • @[email protected]
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        612 days ago

        I’m a car guy and far from manly. I drive a loud annoying stick shift because it’s fun and life is too short to be bored while driving.

        • Liz
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          312 days ago

          Life is too short to have to fucking drive everywhere.

          • @[email protected]
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            412 days ago

            Yeh, but unless I uproot my life and move to a different country, I’m stuck doing it, so I can either bitch and moan about how much I hate it, or have the best time I can doing it 🤷🏾‍♂️

            • Liz
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              211 days ago

              For sure, I used to drive stick when I drove, but I also argued for town planning that would make driving optional. Personal choices to deal with the reality you’re given, public policy activism for the reality you want.

      • @[email protected]
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        -212 days ago

        Yeah, I guess all those professional female race car drivers are doing it to feel “manly”

    • @[email protected]
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      1212 days 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        412 days 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
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          112 days 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        -212 days 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
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          412 days 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.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 days 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
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              411 days 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.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 days ago

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

                • Liz
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                  211 days 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      1012 days ago

      When accelerating my Leaf makes a “woooooooooooOOOOOOOOP” noise I’ve seen described as the “UFO sound”

      Tbh I like it a lot more than the vroom of even my motorcycle cuz it’s funny

      • @[email protected]
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        412 days ago

        I do love the whine of the drive units when going full throttle on EVs, it reminds me how much current is surging through those wires

    • @[email protected]
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      1012 days ago

      Think of the most annoying sound you know. Whether it’s country music, rap, lawnmower before 8am on sat, etc that is your “good noises” sound like.

      • @[email protected]
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        1312 days ago

        There is a huge difference between a finely tuned V8 with an appropriate muffler versus a gas lawnmower, but to each there own.

        Great username btw

        • @[email protected]
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          1012 days ago

          Mr. Monkey subjectively your finely tuned v8 sounds like a 400lb basement dwelling gorilla someone has fed laxatives and recorded from the bottom of a well used coachella porta potty.

          • @[email protected]
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            612 days ago

            I dunno, I’m “team electric is objectively better in every way” but I gotta agree, a fancy tuned racecar engine sounds like angry beast and that’s pretty sexy.

            The jolt of max acceleration of an electric motor in complete silence is also extremely sexy, though.

            • @[email protected]
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              -212 days ago

              Lol ok I get it you’re all Car-o-sexuals. It’s cool but can you guys just keep it to your bedrooms and rest stops?

      • @[email protected]
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        512 days ago

        Think of the nicest sound you know. A well-tuned instrument performing a delicate melody, a passionate singer performing their heart out, a cacophony of songbirds. That’s what my good noises sound like when done right.

        Obviously nobody wants to hear a fart can Honda Civic at 4am, but a fantastically engineered Italian V10 has its own melody that can’t really be replicated otherwise. These examples will be missed, and the survivors will be sought after like a vintage violin.

      • @[email protected]
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        112 days ago

        You just gonna sit there and yuck the mainstream yum like your opinions are better than everyone else’s?