That UFO sound is so goddamn irritating as well. Could they not have picked something that sounded, I dunno, like a car? Why did it need to be a noise that no one would immediately recognize as a vehicle? And why are they all slightly different, it's not the electric motor noise, it's gotta be piped out speakers right, so they could/should all sound the same?

I could hear and feel the subway from six stories up when I was in New York last month.

My neighbor has one of the UFO models, quite creepy when they first moved in before I identified the source!

yea, we have an equinox EV, and it sounds like you are acending to heaven.

Im wondeirng how hard it would be to intercept the speaker signal, and play my own sounds, at a similar pitch/volume, say... a tie fighter

It's an old misleading story against EVs in new cloths.

Even pre 2021 the noise generation when driving slow was just a standard feature.

Bikes are much less dangerous and much more manouverable. Bikes are used to anticipating the many unpredictable ways pedestrians may move and avoid them appropriately.

The bike bell can help too.

Better infrastructure would be best

I feel like this is one of those cases where the solution is just being really really precise about how it's done, like it's gotta be juuuuuuust the right sound and it's gotta ramp up in volume in precisely the right way depending on both the speed AND acceleration and maybe the cars even need microphones so they can adjust the sound according to the acoustics around them.. Or, you know, we could just stop having cars near people.

I've done this kinda tweaking with the acceleration and braking on my e-scooter and it makes a world of difference to how it comes from the factory, it feels waaaaaay safer and easier to control.

Harley Davidson, the official transport of man with erectile disfunction has entered the chat.

i'm convinced the core problem is that cars fuck up your view of the world.
Stuff like not hearing your surroundings and the sounds your own cars makes, the big hood and all the other parts of the car blocking the view, probably the fact that you're seated plays a part as well, and of course the absolute lack of subtle feedback to the controls.

When you get into a car it becomes way more difficult to do any sort of fine adjustments and suddenly 15km/h feels painfully slow, so a driver who thinks they're crawling along is actually going fast enough that they have absolutely no chance of stopping in time if something pops out from around a corner.