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Maybe we all just need to figure out how to attach a playing card so that it rubs against the Cyclone wheel spokes...
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Ha, no worries, my 2013 S makes a ton of noise already. Whenever I tap the brake pedal (really annoying brake vacuum pump BUZZING that would wake the dead) the noise keeps going for ~10 sec. Tesla Service says "it's normal," which when translated to English means "We refuse to fix it.'"
That's why this rule has to be removed. *After* the cars are programmed so that they *can't* run people over.While I look forward to the day when crossing a 7 lane intersection on foot is no longer an experience of obnoxious noise, waste heat, and exhaust fumes... I'm not so sure the cacophony of "idle tones" will be a pleasant thing.
Yeah, that'll still happen. :-(I have experienced the latter problem with the LEAF in having to roll down my window and warn someone standing next to my car chatting with the driver of the car in the next parking slot, "Excuse me, I need to back out..." Of course, that could still happen, even with a sound effect.
Tesla should implement enough autopilot / automatic braking features that its new cars will absolutely refuse to hit pedestrians when going less than 20 mph .
Proof again that "regulations add weight to cars".
..but not too worried..
All our cars are grandfathered... so you don't have to worry either. At least we're not guilty contributing to the noise pollution.
For new owners, starting that day... if this becomes regulation in my country, there's probably not a cop in town who would know enough or care enough to make this enforceable and write a ticket for it... if supposing the wire were to break, or something terrible like that were to happen.
I just hope Tesla doesn't overthink this, and overspend on the solution with laser guided sound packets targeting the ears of identified pedestrial objects .... a 25 cent speaker with clearly labeled wire "sound emitter" in a user convenient spot for administering treatment. And be done with it. They get the "comply" checkmark, and the rest is in our hands. Maybe get energetic and pull the speaker out to reclaim the weight savings, and that's 25 cents down the drain... not $270...
I think it's a frequency thing. Leafs, Prii, etc all give me a nails on chalkboard feeling. Most CRT's bothered me too, especially the ones that ran at really high refresh rates (the old NEC Multisyncs drove me batty).I had a Prius pass by me as I was walking into a store the other day and didn't hear a thing.
All our cars are grandfathered... so you don't have to worry either. At least we're not guilty contributing to the noise pollution.
You never know. Based on the schematics released earlier this year, the pedestrian noise unit may have already been installed in 2016 models, just waiting for a software update to become active!
On the other hand, I actually would like a separate "ahem, there is a car behind you, you might want to stop picking your nose in the middle of the street and step aside?" horn. More of a throat-clearing noise than the blare of the main horn.