Not when parked. A cat would thi k it was a parked car.
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sefra1@lemmy.zip 1 month agoIdk, I find that at low speeds electric cars are louder than modern internal combustion. They have that SciFi drone sound.
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
there are those newfangled ICE cars that turn off instead of idle. i don’t quite know how i feel.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
It’s not really all that newfangled. It was part of the eurozone’s requirements for cars and was put in other places as well. I think that it’s approaching a decade now. My neighbor’s 2017 has it.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
the pandemic really fucked with my sense of time. the last week has taken a decade and the last decade feels present.
bss03@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Depending on the year model of the car, it might not make that sound. It wasn’t required on some of the earlier EVs, which could be eerily quiet. I believe it’s required by law on newer models. Pre-2016 Volts has a “pedestrian horn button”; 2016 and newer Volts play a noise continuously as lower speeds. (My Uncle says it sounds like the warp drive hum on the original Star Trek Enterprise.)