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ikingrpg OP t1_iy5hr5w wrote
Reply to comment by LazerWolfe53 in Future generations of kids won't know that cars used to go Vrroooommm by ikingrpg
Cool!
ikingrpg OP t1_iy56c1h wrote
Reply to comment by 4x4is16Legs in Future generations of kids won't know that cars used to go Vrroooommm by ikingrpg
I agree, but apparently some people actually like the smell of burnt fossil fuels.
ikingrpg OP t1_iy568oc wrote
Reply to comment by caveyh96 in Future generations of kids won't know that cars used to go Vrroooommm by ikingrpg
Okay maybe they'll know, but when they think of cars it won't be what they immediately think of.
ikingrpg OP t1_iy2j8jg wrote
Reply to comment by donsterkay in Future generations of kids won't know that cars used to go Vrroooommm by ikingrpg
That's a good point, it's the same with a lot of digital icons like the phone icon or camera icon.
I think the effect that you pointed out will happen for electric cars, people will still use terms like "start the car" "gas pedal" "gear shifter", but I think that fake car engine sounds will die out because most people just don't care.
ikingrpg OP t1_iy2iw9j wrote
Reply to comment by NAGDABBITALL in Future generations of kids won't know that cars used to go Vrroooommm by ikingrpg
Actually that is already a thing on a few EVs, Tesla lets you change your sound to anything. All new EVs have speakers to alert pedestrians, usually like a hum or white noise.
But I personally don't expect fake engine sounds to stay popular, I think people will just get used to different sounds. In fact most non-car enthusiasts don't care about sound at all and would turn it off.
ikingrpg t1_ivxdug2 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Experimental cancer vaccine shows promise in animal studies by BoundariesAreFun
That's like every vaccine
ikingrpg t1_ivxdq5c wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Experimental cancer vaccine shows promise in animal studies by BoundariesAreFun
I mean that's why people sign up for these studies/trials.
ikingrpg t1_j261dqp wrote
Reply to comment by sold_snek in ELI5 why do electric vehicles have one big battery that's hard to replace once it's expired, rather than lots of smaller ones that could be swapped out based on need (to trade off range/power/weight)? by ginonofalg
Yeah, that was a rare case where the car wasn't that old, but one cell just went bad. You wouldn't want to do the same thing if all the cells were old.