now that taxi idea does not seem so far fetched, does it? one of the guys behind the art project is sound designer yuri suzuki. and if you can imagine, current electric cars appear to be quiet, it can be terrifying. as an independent consultant to the auto industry, he thinks our cars should adapt to what we re doing and when. the beauty of the electric car is actually we don t have to choose one standardised sound at all, it really depends on the time and the usage of the car has a totally different soundscape you can create as well. here s the car s start up sound in the morning. jingle plays. and its horn. horn honks. and this is what they sound like at lunchtime. and here they are at night. quiet sound. and it s yuri s dream that the cars we drive, while not all sounding the same, may perhaps harmonise and create
we have all sorts of percussion instruments and we begin to play around with the guitar in a way that actually one does not, with pieces of glass, pieces of wood and just recording and some of them ended up being part of our composition for bmw. you see how the sound, it s much smoother? a little more metallic maybe. yes. tubular, tubular bells, that s the right word. it s not being rough on the exterior. it s more like an introverted kind of driving. as compared to the sports sound, where it s more extroverted. it s pushing. it s pushing much more. bmw owners can expect some of the new in cabin sounds to play with next month.
sound, perhaps a sound that tells you it s their vehicle that s coming. but for some, that s sounding an alarm. la cucaracha plays. fart noises. yep, that is a fart noise, making customisable sounds for your tesla has caused a social media storm. fart noises. ..since what the firm called a boombox was added to recent models. ok, so let s enable driving sound. in europe, these only work when the car is stationary but in the us, well, you can broadcast any sound you like while on the move.
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that would work with the car. not all new leafs will sound the same. we re the first tv crew to be invited into nissan s top secret semi anechoic chamber and paul s the man in charge of testing the sounds and tweaking them to different markets. because it turns out different countries have different ideas of what good quality sounds like. in europe, we attribute quality with a more sort of solid feel, more like a low frequency content, like a solid closing of an oak door is a good quality sound. injapan, they tend to be slightly more biased towards higher frequency sounds, and that s more because that s where their language operates. like the motorcycle engine s higher revving, turbo charged engines would be a high quality sound so there s different tastes in different markets. here s hyundai virtual engine sound system in a new ioniq. of course, each brand of electric car will want to make a slightly different