Context: I drive a 15+ year old SUV, and I am no longer in the position to just replace everything should anything bad happen. So sadly I will have to buy a newer car at some point. Hopefully not anytime soon 🤞🏼🤞🏼 But, I noticed when shopping with other people that newer cars sound weird. My knowledge of car troubleshooting is little more than sounds good/sounds bad, looks good/looks bad, smells good/smells bad, feels good/feels bad.
So, how are newer cars supposed to sound?
If you get a plug-in hybrid then low speeds might also have a pedestrian safety sound which is a humming that gets louder until 24 km an hour which is when it will shut off because the car road noise is then loud enough to be audible to pedestrians.
Sadly, a lot of pedestrians are stupid. I’ve watched them walking across a road, phone in hand, straight into an idling parked V6 with a hole in its exhaust, and still be confused.
Pedestrian warning systems are a good idea. But nature will always come up with a better idiot
I just don’t understand looking at your phone when crossing the street. So, you have the right of way. Fat lot of good that is going to do you as you are flying through the air.