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Engine Sound Simulator

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Re: Engine Sound Simulator

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Post by constantcrying »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #90
phs318u wrote: post #79

Reading a lot of the comments it seems that most people here are keen to have otherwise quiet cars fitted with fake sounds. While I appreciate there's a safety aspect to making some sort of sound for pedestrians, I am actually looking forward to a future that makes cities and heavy traffic areas both quieter and cleaner. If you live in such areas, this would be a great quality of life improvement and dare I say, may…

Unless I'm missing something, these sounds only occur inside the car. Can you explain how that affects you?

EVs at low speeds need to produce external sounds to warn pedestrians.

Re: Engine Sound Simulator

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Post by fragmede »

otteromkram wrote: post #84
phs318u wrote: post #79

Reading a lot of the comments it seems that most people here are keen to have otherwise quiet cars fitted with fake sounds. While I appreciate there's a safety aspect to making some sort of sound for pedestrians, I am actually looking forward to a future that makes cities and heavy traffic areas both quieter and cleaner. If you live in such areas, this would be a great quality of life improvement and dare I say, may…

Yes! I've already written NHTSA and US DOT about getting these synthetic noises banned. The more people who do the same, the more likely it'll get noticed. Now, we just have to figure out how to include motorcycles...

you know they're the ones that required them, right?

Re: Engine Sound Simulator

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Post by techwiz137 »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #90
phs318u wrote: post #79

Reading a lot of the comments it seems that most people here are keen to have otherwise quiet cars fitted with fake sounds. While I appreciate there's a safety aspect to making some sort of sound for pedestrians, I am actually looking forward to a future that makes cities and heavy traffic areas both quieter and cleaner. If you live in such areas, this would be a great quality of life improvement and dare I say, may…

Unless I'm missing something, these sounds only occur inside the car. Can you explain how that affects you?

In ICE cars, some people remove the mufflers and modify the exhaust for louder and more deeper sounds.

Re: Engine Sound Simulator

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Post by HPsquared »

phs318u wrote: post #79

Reading a lot of the comments it seems that most people here are keen to have otherwise quiet cars fitted with fake sounds. While I appreciate there's a safety aspect to making some sort of sound for pedestrians, I am actually looking forward to a future that makes cities and heavy traffic areas both quieter and cleaner. If you live in such areas, this would be a great quality of life improvement and dare I say, may…

I wonder if they could go the other way and use loudspeakers for external active noise cancellation.

Re: Engine Sound Simulator

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Post by lobochrome »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #90
phs318u wrote: post #79

Reading a lot of the comments it seems that most people here are keen to have otherwise quiet cars fitted with fake sounds. While I appreciate there's a safety aspect to making some sort of sound for pedestrians, I am actually looking forward to a future that makes cities and heavy traffic areas both quieter and cleaner. If you live in such areas, this would be a great quality of life improvement and dare I say, may…

Unless I'm missing something, these sounds only occur inside the car. Can you explain how that affects you?

Oh but they don’t! Lots of German “performance” cars now have speakers under the car to make obnoxiously loud sounds. They can’t produce them naturally because the muffler regulations prohibit unfiltered exhausts - hence speakers.

AMG, Audi RS, M Power - they all do it.

Re: Engine Sound Simulator

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Post by pancsta »

HPsquared wrote: post #96
phs318u wrote: post #79

Reading a lot of the comments it seems that most people here are keen to have otherwise quiet cars fitted with fake sounds. While I appreciate there's a safety aspect to making some sort of sound for pedestrians, I am actually looking forward to a future that makes cities and heavy traffic areas both quieter and cleaner. If you live in such areas, this would be a great quality of life improvement and dare I say, may…

I wonder if they could go the other way and use loudspeakers for external active noise cancellation.

wtf is external noice cancellation

Re: Engine Sound Simulator

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Post by willis936 »

dclowd9901 wrote: post #83
elromulous wrote: post #14

If you liked this, y'all owe it to yourselves to checkout AngeTheGreat's channel. It's truly amazing work. https://youtube.com/@angethegreat

That rigid body engine sim is, without a doubt, one of the coolest software projects I’ve seen in my entire life. If only we could get sim racers to adopt this tech.

Ange's top patron is BeamNG, arguably the most physically accurate sim racer out there right now (in some areas, it still needs improvement). I predict within five years BeamNG + engine sim will leapfrog what anyone else has done in this area and recreated what we all thought video games were doing when we were little kids.
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