[bananamogul]

Solving the safety problem by making it loud does not seem like a great solution.

Fast forward and everyone is driving nearly silent electric vehicles. I wouldn’t want loud Vespas then. Cutting city noise pollution is one of the benefits of electric vehicles.

[toast0]

Should license movement noises from Hanna-Barbera. Jetsons or Flintstones are good, but there's probably other options.

[boomskats]

It's not a great solution but it's the best one I've got, and it's still more ecological than driving the (electric) car for the same one-person trip. And audible != loud.

Anyway, don't most places legally require nearly silent electric vehicles to emit some kind of artificial noise?

[joe_mamba]

>And audible != loud

People who sleep with the windows opened in summer at night(most Europeans) facing the street where vespas are driving would beg to differ.

Then there's the separate issue that some(many?) owners either rev their vespas for more power(maybe due to worn belt) or they just fuck with their exhaust to squeeze more power at the expense of noise.

Either way, there's plenty of good reasons people find mopeds/scooter overall far more noisy and annoying than cars.

[boomskats]

I agree with all of those points, and none of them are relevant to what I was talking about.