[rconti]

There are lots of reasons to like combustion vehicles outside of noise. The varying way they deliver power across the rev range is different in every vehicle, for one. One of my cars is a small displacement turbo motor and I love pinning it low in the rev range and feeling the power surge as the boost ramps up, and this is different under all kinds of conditions; different engine speeds, air temperatures, altitude...

A nice, tactile gear change is particularly pleasurable as well. And sounds do go along with all this, but they don't necessarily need to be loud.

I can imagine a bizarro version of this comment where a future person in a world where all of your caloric needs are met by a pill you take daily, ranting about how food enthusiasts insist on shoving their smelly food up your nostrils as you walk by an unnecessary-in-this-day-and-age restaurant, and how they only do it to annoy other people.

[amanaplanacanal]

You can imagine a time when humans will no longer enjoy eating food. Ummm... Ok. I can imagine a time when we will all be brains in jars, but it's never gonna happen.

[rconti]

I didn't say it was going to happen. I was trying to come up with an equally silly comparison where someone argues that a person couldn't possibly enjoy sensory experience, and therefore the _only_ reason anybody could enjoy an ICE vehicle is to make loud noises in order to annoy a HN commenter.

[amanaplanacanal]

Well sure. Plenty of people enjoy activities that are antisocial. I quite like it when they are called out on it though.