Vehicle: Car: Proximity Detector
Choose Your Electric Car's Sound   (+3)  [vote for, against]
Roman chariot? Sherman tank? Viking attack? What's your mood today?

It's been noted that electric cars are very quiet which can pose a hazard to pedestrians who don't hear the cars coming. Proposed solutions have included recorded engine sounds, tones or even music.

It would be interesting to be able to customize the sound of your car to suit your personality or mood for the day. These sound effect loops would be the same volume of a regular internal combustion engine and would be recordings of moving, hazardous vehicles, animals or objects.

Rampaging elephant, rolling bolder, that scream from Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, the sound of your car would be uniquely you.

Keep in mind, these wouldn't be loud, just as loud as an auto engine so you'd hear it. It wouldn't be as if you'd have to cover your ears if the driver chose a Saturn 5 rocket, it would be a very quiet Saturn 5 rocket, just loud enough to know a car was coming.
-- doctorremulac3, Jul 01 2019

EU rules https://www.theverg...ion-rules-2019-2021
This idea has been on the books for a few years, and it seems the EU is putting it in to practice. [neutrinos_shadow, Jul 01 2019]

And also... https://gizmodo.com...rritatin-1836016294
Sounds for electric busses. [neutrinos_shadow, Jul 01 2019]

Somewhat baked Electronic_20music_...r_20electric_20cars
[hippo, Jul 02 2019]

//It's been noted that electric cars are very quiet which can pose a hazard to pedestrians who don't hear the cars coming.//

Whoa there. For fifty years, large parts of humanity have been living with the constant noise of traffic. Finally, someone invents a car that is not so noisy. And now you want to make them noisy again. But not just noisy. Personalizably noisy. Even "just loud enough" personalizable noisy.

Just no. I mean, for fuxake, I'm now going to be surrounded by random car ringtones? Seriously, what were you thinking there? Do I care that you think the theme tune to Pirates of the Caribbean represents your personality?

Make cars quiet, with the possible exception of the occasional V12 making the throaty burble that god intended. If we lose a few pedestrians, well, shoulda looked.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 01 2019


We predict the most popular sound choice for BMWs will be "Tie Fighter".
-- 8th of 7, Jul 02 2019


//Seriously, what were you thinking there?//

I was thinking of making cars that created different sounds.

But if the sound does have to be standardized, and I'm seeing that's already being worked on, I don't see the problem with a 60 cycle hum, the universal sound for electricity. Seems like a no brainer to me. Gas engines makes explody sounds, steam engines make steam sound, electrical motor makes electricity sound. If you're riding a horse, horse sounds, OK you get the point.
-- doctorremulac3, Jul 02 2019


Could infrasound implement "ominous silence"? Or maybe, for that, you'd need anti-noise technology. You know, "suddenly there were no chirping birds". That might engage directly and viscerally with an inclination to pause before stepping off the kerb.
-- pertinax, Jul 02 2019


//60 cycle hum, the universal sound for electricity// That would be 50Hz, then.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 02 2019


Should this not be "Choose"?
-- xenzag, Jul 02 2019


No, he said it needs to be standardized, so it's already chosed.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 02 2019


I always thought it should be a little bell on the front like a tram has. The bell could go ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, all the time, at a rate of tinging proportional to the speed of the vehicle.
-- pocmloc, Jul 02 2019


//Should this not be "Choose"?//

No, it should. Thanks.

//60 cycle hum, the universal sound for electricity// That would be 50Hz, then.//

Saw that coming down 5th avenue. Was going to address it then thought... naaa.

//I always thought it should be a little bell on the front like a tram has. The bell could go ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, all the time, at a rate of tinging proportional to the speed of the vehicle.//

How does it go?
-- doctorremulac3, Jul 02 2019


He said, "Ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting".
-- 8th of 7, Jul 02 2019


While I love the spirit of your idea [doc] I would think there is a certain Darwinian desireableness in changes in society that weed out the slice of society that is too resistant to change even in the name of their own safety, changes like cell phones and silent electric cars. People too intent on their cell phones and other devices to take note of the vehicles, silent or not, that regularly traverse the roadways are quickly and beneficially culled from the gene pool.
-- whatrock, Jul 02 2019


Could be tang for reversing
-- pocmloc, Jul 02 2019


Wait, so you're saying in reverse it would go: "Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang."?
-- doctorremulac3, Jul 02 2019


//it's already chosed// - 13 years ago..

obviously, reversing is "gnit"
-- hippo, Jul 02 2019


//Wait, so you're saying in reverse it would go: "Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang."?// Yes, that sounds about right.
-- pocmloc, Jul 02 2019


I thought that the sound of running water would be good.
So 1 or 2 cars sound like a little creek; but a busy road (or heavy vehicles) sounds like a river.
-- neutrinos_shadow, Jul 03 2019


I was hoping for

//Wait, so you're saying in reverse it would go: "Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang."?// Yes,in reverse it would go Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang.

Because I like the part where it says tang.
-- doctorremulac3, Jul 03 2019


Or toot, toot, toot, etc.
-- blissmiss, Jul 03 2019


////Wait, so you're saying in reverse it would go: "Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang."?// Yes,in reverse it would go Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang.//

So, basically, you're saying that he's saying it would go "Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang.", and you're agreeing that it would indeed go ""Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang." ?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 03 2019


//////Wait, so you're saying in reverse it would go: "Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang."?// Yes,in reverse it would go Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang.// So, basically, you're saying that he's saying it would go "Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang.", and you're agreeing that it would indeed go ""Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang." ?// Yes but only in reverse. I already explained that in reverse it would go tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, but when travelling forward it would go ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting, ting.
-- pocmloc, Jul 03 2019


No, I didn't say //Wait, so you're saying in reverse it would go: "Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang."?// Yes,in reverse it would go Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang.// So, basically, you're saying that he's saying it would go "Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang.", and you're agreeing that it would indeed go ""Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang." ?//

I said "Wait, so you're saying in reverse it would go: "Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang."?// Yes,in reverse it would go Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang.// So, basically, you're saying that he's saying it would go "Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang.", and you're agreeing that it would indeed go ""Tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang, tang."

Oh, wait - is that what you said I said?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 03 2019


And so, my fellow Aldeberans, that is what became of the race that called themselves "humans". Even with the development of ultra-low-energy quantum-bit displays, the displaying of the word "tang" eventually required more power than their sun could produce. And yet they never discovered who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jul 03 2019


I don't like to use the word "hero" when describing myself, but I don't need a premise to type tang a lot of times.

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-- doctorremulac3, Jul 03 2019


Why am I suddenly feeling weightless and craving orange-coloured sugar water?
-- Sgt Teacup, Jul 03 2019


//tang... tang//
The copy-paste is strong here today.
(I once made an MS Word macro to do an exponential copy- paste, just to see if I could (I don't use macro's). I forget how many words I got to before Word complained; 2^20 or so...)
-- neutrinos_shadow, Jul 03 2019


Did I hear a gnat?
-- pertinax, Jul 04 2019


And a gnit...

"With a gnit, gnat, tang (a whack!*), give a car a horn/This old man came rolling home" (assuming battery life is unaffected by the addition of sound)

*well-known Canadian unit of measurement, the whack, as in: 'Didya see the whack'a'beer he had'n'th'bed'o'is pickup, b'y?! Boxes'n'boxes!'
-- Sgt Teacup, Jul 04 2019


Camshaft-linked, two-armed apparatus poking out of the grille - each arm carries half an empty coconut shell...

"That's not a horse. You've got two coconut shells and you're banging them together..'
-- ConsulFlaminicus, Jul 04 2019


If I had one I'd quite like it to sound like a small child playing with a toy car.
Idling : "rem rem rem rem"
accelerating : "Vrooom vroom veroom ruuuum ruuuum"
cornering : "Rrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeee"

also the horn would go "Parp paarp!"
-- Loris, Jul 04 2019



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