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Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud (2021) [video]

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Post by toxik »

randallsquared wrote: post #13

> Pretty quiet, for the area right outside of a train station. This, while the video is showing a virtually empty space. It doesn't matter that it's right outside of a train station if there's no one around!

Our LNG buses are so ridiculously loud, especially when they motor break which seems to be basically every time. Stockholm, Sweden.

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Post by lillecarl »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #12
dwighttk wrote: post #4

Busses and trucks are louder…

Trucks might be but electric and hybrid buses are rather quiet.

Yup, the bigger tyres makes a noise difference at speed, it's more energy efficient because of this. You'll notice a sound difference between good and bad tyres too.

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Post by leipert »

s_dev wrote: post #11
enlyth wrote: post #5

The author in the video kind of dismisses EVs saying that at speed there's not much of a difference, but one of the things I definitely noticed when visiting Bergen was how damn quiet the city was because almost everyone was driving EVs. It had a noticeably positive effect on me.

It's so weird that the 'noise' of petrol cars is considered a safety feature. I've heard from the older generation "Yeah but EVs don't make noise which makes them extremely dangerous. Could easily kill a child or old woman who steps out on to a road because they don't hear a car coming". It must be the same group of people with their anecdotes about seatbelts and airbags making cars more dangerous.

In Germany some organizations advocating for visually impaired people (rightfully) complained about this. Apparently the problem is that the „sounds“ EVs play to mimic other vehicles at low speed are too different from other vehicles, and that they stop playing them to early when reaching a certain velocity.

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Post by pluijzer »

Like mentioned in the video Moppets are annoyingly loud. They are allowed on many of the bicycle paths (and go on the once they're not supposed to anyway). So if a city center diverges car traffic but has a bicycle path through it they ruin the otherwise calm. In my personal opinion they are not suited for bicycle paths at all. And don't get me started on 'brommobielen' (tiny cars that can go max. 45 km/h and you can drive with just a scooter license). Those things annoy the heck out of me. They either drive you off the bicycle path because they are just cars and should be on the road, or, they clog up the roads because they are not cars and shouldn't be on the road. Dutch infrastructure is just not made for them.

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Post by wrp »

Living in Tokyo, I found the most constantly intrusive noise to be the deliberate noise-makers at stations and crossings. Less frequent but even more annoying because they intruded into areas supposed to be quieter were the PA systems mounted on trucks. Traffic rumble was always there but for me it was ignorable away from the major thoroughfares.

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Post by Sharlin »

jenadine wrote: post #18

I live near an intersection, and the most annoying noise is honking. Why do driver have to honk so much is beyond me. Also quite annoying is ambulance/police. They are really loud.

Oh my god I'm so lucky to live in a culture where unnecessary honking is almost nonexistent…

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Post by outime »

david-gpu wrote: post #17

I live in a high-rise condo next to a six-lane stroad that was even showcased on this YouTube channel and the 24/7 traffic noise is annoying, particularly when you want to go for a walk and can't even hold a conversation. This didn't happen in the places where I lived back in Europe because zoning laws were different. Instead of the sprawl of freehold single family homes separate from a dense urban core, these much q…

Note that while you point out this happened in specific areas you've lived in, there are unfortunately plenty of places in Europe where you'd face the same issue.
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