When we bought our first Prius I was unnerved to find that hit had a beeper to warn of the car being in reverse, but the beeper only sounded inside the car. What good is that? I want it to sound like a garbage truck.
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Start with this car!
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If only I had the spare change to paint a Ferrari that way just to make people upset.
I found this one in Chicago. Maserati. Astral paint job.
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I think itâs because bass notes are sexually arousing in fish.
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So long as the sound has been designed to only be heard by the drive, I approve wholeheartedly. People donât seem to give a shit about noise pollution, even though itâs demonstrably both a destroyer of quality of life and health. Plus, whenever I hear a car or motorcycle thatâs obviously been altered to make more noise, all I can think is, âAre you three fucking years old? Can you not spare everyone else and just continue to make âVroom vroomâ noises on your own?â
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Seems I read they also do this with Harley Davidson motorcycles but my Google Fu is failing - only getting information about how they patented the distinctive sound. Anyone out there will more 411?
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As teens, the first thing that we used to do was add fat headers and glass packs.
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I will say that although I disagree with the sentiment âLoud pipes saves livesâ when it comes to Motorcycles, but mainly that is because they break traffic rules and split lines.
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My husband has a fancy Mustang which is, and Iâm not even a Mustang fanboi, very very pretty. It is also loud as shit. I pretty much canât stand being in the car because I have sensitive hearing and do not enjoy it. It is all kinds of fun to drive and see the reactions of people to the loud engine, though - def an attention getter.
I thought it would make a funny short story to do this, and then I find out that truth is stranger than fiction.
I got the idea when I found out that some places were putting minimum noise requirements on hybrids and electrics, and thought, "Wouldnât it be funny if car enthusiasts got super-obsessed with creating the perfect âhot rodâ sound? Would it be purely through speakers? Would some people come up with an acoustic/mechanical way to make the sounds?
My dad is a racing enthusiast and I was raised around this; I remember realizing that, even though Episode I was truly terrible, the sounds of the podracers got my heartrate going. Wouldnât it be funny to hear a Tesla going down the road someday sounding like Sebulbaâs car? Would restrictions be put on the amount of sound a car could make, based on torque, top speed, and so on?
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Iâve never owned a car worth listening to. Two of them have been diseasels.
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My personal vote for a hack replacement car engine noise would be the âJetsonsâ vehicle sound.
Why they donât sell replacement sounds as a feature is beyond me.
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As it is I detest driving, but it doesnât have to do with the actual driving part, just dealing with the other drivers.
Well, that would be fun. Just like
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Do Not Want! I will pretend to care about the safety of pedestrians and stuff, but I like that my car doesnât make a sound when the gas engine turns off and it is just electric. I donât want it mandatorily louder.
It gets more awkward when you almost run over your next door neighbors kid because they canât hear you, because to drive in the cul-de-sac the car is always going slow enough that it is on silent electric. Oops!
I am only embarrassed when I almost kill someone I know because of my silent car. (Probably need a sociopathy tag on here somewhere, or may just âChrist, what an assholeâ again).
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I absolutely want to turn off that reverse beeper in my Prius. There are some sites and aftermarket kits that I have been too lazy to do or cheap to buy to âfixâ it. I will never admit that it has helped me once or twice by reminding me I was in reverse, never.
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Well you must admit a fast car is more fun than falsies. Otherwise, you have a point.
Conspicuous consumption of energy? Making noise is a way of showing youâve got joules to burnâŚ
I hate loud engines, and shake my fist like an angry old man when motorcycles go by. Finding out that itâs added back in and/or amplified artificially makes me upset.
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Unless itâs a V8 with lake pipes, or a V12, it isnât mechanical music, so just muffle it.
Lake pipes: 52 Ford customline
V12: 1968 Lamborghini Islero at 12:30
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