Yes, as above, they are only noticeably quiet at low speeds.
There’s a different concern at higher speeds - there’s not enough engine noise so motorists notice the tire noise more and the design of quieter - potentially more expensive, at least at first - tires is a potential issue
There was a whole podracer scene in Star Wars Episode 1 with lots of potentially licensable noises.
I’m tempted to make my fortune by selling a “Rolling Coal” kit for electric pickups (I could throw in confederate flags where the stars are little lightning bolts… and light-up trailer hitch nuts… for free with the premium package).
I believe the EV version of rolling coal would be a Tesla coil that zaps the wimpy car next to you.
When the Prius first came out, a friend bought one. She said the danger area were places like gas stations and parking lots, when the car was moving slowly enough not to generate much road noise. She said she’d had pedestrians nearly walk into her hood, not noticing the car.
I ride primarily in states that use some form of the Idaho stop so I can legally act like I own the road! Bwa ha ha ha!
Excellent user name-post combination!
most likely … (c) … driver has near zero visibility on whats ahead of him, and only sees the sky in the incline - and hence has to drive “by memory”
any truck should not have mayor problems here - the underground is dry and very grippy … the problem is the suspension doesnt seem to be flexy at all … so the Camry remark uprthread is not too far off
This was very true in the early days.
They were mandated in Japan before the US but still only around 10-12 years ago, so the very early Prius models did not have them.
And even after, the sound they generated wasn’t like engine noise, so early on, some people were still not careful to avoid running into a large hunk of metal with a lot of momentum behind it, noisemaker or no
I’d consider this plausible, but…
Which was in itself a response to my post trying to figure out if it was the vehicle, the driver (skill or unfamiliarity with the vehicle), or just terrified of doing damage to the bullet (low velocity) and arrow-proof vehicle. Or a combination of all of the above.
So yeah, the video isn’t winning many hearts and minds, but there is multitude of possible issues involved.
That’s what Neuralink is for.
Remember when Elmo was going on about how AI was going to destroy mankind in like a couple of years?
Interesting that xAI doesn’t say anything about it being a Musk thing, let alone connect itself with X/Twitter.
Had the OP not mentioned it, I would have just thought it was some random GPT-based startup with a new gimmick.
The griping about people who can’t take a joke, bragging that it’ll answer questions GPT won’t, and referencing two sci-fi novels that have nothing to with each other, in a way that shows no understanding of either?
That’s got Elmo’s fingerprints all over it.
xAI is absolutely Elmo’s creation. Not only that, Elmo stole employees from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, and Microsoft Research to build it.
Narrator: He is.
Grok? That’s not THHGTTG; that’s Stranger in a Strange Land. He should be calling it HoopyFrood.
I assume he’s never read the former, and he only skimmed the latter looking for the sex scenes.
The only thing more cost-effective than Bulgarian or Pakistani nihilist spam-trolls all over social media is AI nihilist spam-trolls all over social media. If Elmo want to hasten the day civilization collapses, he’s off to a good start.
How else is he supposed to sell tickets to Mars on a rocket that won’t get there?