[2trill2spill]

Agreed, its one of the many reasons I cant wait for the shift from ICE vehicles to EVs, they are just so much quieter.

[nixass]

If you're nearby any moderately busy road it's not the engine what makes noise but the tires and then air going around the car. Engine/exhaust noise is a problem but easy to solve

[lolinder]

> Engine/exhaust noise is a problem but easy to solve

It's easy from a technical standpoint but practically impossible from a human one. The vast majority of people simply don't notice or care that some large percentage of vehicles are intentionally modified to be louder than the legal maximum. Police won't enforce it, and most citizens barely register the noise as present, much less a problem.

Banning ICE vehicles altogether may very well be the only thing that actually gets the problem solved, since that actually has more momentum behind it than enforcement of existing noise regulations does.

[Alupis]

> If you're nearby any moderately busy road it's not the engine what makes noise but the tires and then air going around the car.

You cannot even hear modern ICE cars running unless you are really close to them. My neighbor's garage door opener is louder than his ICE car...

Road noise is tires/air like you mentioned. Not a real way to deal with that.

[llsf]

I found this to be true for cars and maybe trucks, but not for motorbikes. Some extreme motorbikes rattle all parked cars and trigger alarms.

When Harley-Davidson and other moppet/scooters would be all electric, that would be quitter.

[pixl97]

Yep, there are plenty of ICE vehicles that are quite. A large number of cars/small trucks that are loud are designed that way because the roaring engine noise sells the car.

[BeFlatXIII]

I believe it bas to do more with vehicular speed than business. At low speeds, engine noise dominates; on a freeway, it’s the tyres.

[mrtesthah]

Quiet asphalt is a thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8

[pixl97]

Yes and no at the same time. Tire noise is significant which is also a function of vehicle weight, speed, and tire design. You tend not to notice the tire noise as most of our interaction with cars is in places like parking lots where engine noise is much more pronounced.

[johnchristopher]

Depends what we are talking about. In Europe, uber EV moped drivers are sooooo much nicer than the regular ones. Most of our interaction with cars are on side walks, along moving cars.

[tayo42]

There is still honking, car alarms, and bass