How New Cars Trick You With Pre-Recorded Engine Noise 

Ah, that dude with his electric Mercedes EQS

@@Has7DCT I'll pretend to know what that is 😁

@@gocygo4862 I think it is an electro-car, so you can't hear any sounds of a humming engine 😃

just turn on the volume

Did you watch the video? It’s all cars now lol

Same thing with blenders. Crap bothers me so much cuz these things are ANNOYINGLY loud

Ah Same thing with woman during intercourse👍

I hate this op, take my like.

Who are these “people” that believe that and how do i get all of them on a plane?

Shampoo manufacturers do something similar. Shampoo doesn't inherently have to create a lot of foam to do its job, but people expect foam so they added additional things into the shampoo specifically to make it foam.

Until the car didn't move.

@@gabrielulibarri9950 There are some that still wouldn't catch on. And some of those will probably get in an accident.

@@chuckfischer7202 Same people who get stranded on the escalator when it stops. 😁😁

…until they didn’t feel the wind blowing in their hair

Even Ralph the mouse knows you can make a car go by making impressive enough engine noises.

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@@MrPaxio Obama brick

Just got a 2020 RDX is it on this model to? If so can I disable it? I am a little dubious of the turbo sound on it.

@@ogjk works best if you can find the source i e the specific speaker like in VWs and simply cut it. If the system works via the in car audio speakers it might get difficult. If you are lucky you might have a specific fuse that you can pull.

In 2016 I bought a used 2010 sedan that had heated and cooled seats. I'd never been in a car with cooled seats. So, when I was test driving it I kept noticing a white noise sound over my shoulder. At first I thought there was something like a cabin-wide version of noise cancellation that maybe had a janky set of microphones or something. Then I thought, well maybe one of the windows is slightly cracked or maybe there is an air leak along a door seal. It took a moment for my ears and my brain to work out the sound of the forced air in the leather seat cushions.

Incorrect. The 2021 TLX onwards has both systems. Active Noise Cancellation is still there to cancel out wind, road noise, and the low RPM groan that comes with at an engine’s cruising speed. It was never made to make a 4 sound like a 6, as it’s very present on their V6s. In addition to that system, which is still very much there, they have Active Sound Control which… well, makes every Acura do it’s best NSX impression. Which is a V6. This new system is the one that makes their four sound like a six. Source: me, who owns a 2020 RDX with both systems and a 20 year old Accord with a detuned variant of the NSX V6.

@@ogjk you mean RDX? I have one too, there’s no tweaking the system. That said, roll down your window and you’ll clearly hear the turbo sound actually isn’t fake. The engine sound is enhanced though.

yes i agree and so unexpected as well :D

I thought he was drunk 😂 😂

3:48 I would have inserted Carol Burnett's Tarzan Yell here.

Except they can see the peripherals and the speedometer. Doesn't matter how loud a car is if its only doing 50. I can drive my Tercel and it'll make a hell of a noise, but it isn't going anywhere fast.

@@internetbodhi1009 If you look at the speedometer you will reach or maintain your desired speed, but subconsciously, you'd feel like you're going faster than what you actually are. A similar strategy is employed in city engineering when designing rural roads, placing trees and large objects close to the road, seeing them towering near you while at speed, making you go at or below the speed limit to feel safe.

You obviously don't realise that it is not an important aspect at all to people who are not wankers.

I'm pretty sure that Lotus Evora (the older models at least) does not have simulated engine sounds, that's against Lotus stands for. Why the Evora sounds angelic while a V6 Camry doesn't us for a few reasons. First, the Lotus is supercharged, this adds wonderful sound, and the exhaust system is very different than a toyota. The Lotus is a mid engine car with headers, free flowing mufflers, and an overall shorter dual exhaust system. This makes a huge different in sound.

huh. you know.. I was ready to dismiss this whole idea, but then I did remember how much sound played a role in driving a manual transmission. though I suspect the quieter engines are still plenty loud enough for this purpose.

BMW naming themselves Big Motorcars, Woahh! Too

Renault has a 4-cylinder engine named F4RT. You're welcome.

they just cant have normal names can they, kia carens , cough cough..

@@jj02mc27 what about the actual tesla fart horn

ASS is also short for Autism Spectrum Syndrome, or simply autism.

This is the way

Does than mean that the hair of my mustache makes my mouth not on my face?

@@joshjensen727 Mustaches are facial hair specifically defining it to be part of the face

But sideburns are part of the beard, which is facial hair and by definition part of the face. Also, why should male hair patterns be the standard for face definitions anyway?

@@rmdodsonbills Are you Implying Women DON'T have facial hair? That's so insensitive! 1! 1! 1 - Hirsute women have hair - Trans women may have hair. This disclaimer brought to you by ministry of social awareness.

dont say it. DONT SAY IT!

Explains their target demographic

In UK it's called Active Recreation Sound Entity

The drivers want to hear a good, deep grumble when the wind hits their faces.

Yeah, they don't suck as much, they're better 😂😂😂

I hate this

Reminds me of the Stan-Vac! It sucks more than anything!

Much to the dismay of pets everywhere.

smh they should just advertise it as "20% Quieter, 50% more POWER!"

Thanks, i was looking to make sure i didnt have to write this myself

even more actually, what with boost and all that

it's just coming out with less energy since more is being harvested to do silly things like burn fuel more completely rather than announce to other drivers how inadequate you feel about your genitals

debatable

@@bricktown3156 "debatable" as if the turbocharger makes the exhaust fumes somehow lose mass on exit 💀💀💀

Just yesterday my friends 2003 325xi died spectacularly, luckily we got picked up and trailered back to town by a stranger who asked for memes as payment

You can tell he’s not a car guy. Compared the M5 to a fucking Camry lmao.

As an e92 M3 owner I’m legally obligated to drag newer M car owners about how their cars have fake sound pumped though their speakers and how absurd that is. Sound is probably the most important thing to me in an “enthusiast car”. I’ve got nothing against the move to more efficient and electric cars, but I’d be hard pressed to purchase a car that pumps fake sound as a “toy”. I’ll keep the M3 forever, and I could see as time marches forward adding a couple more classic cars to the garage, but anything after like 2018 is just a way to get from point A to point B for me. I just don’t care about it that much from an enthusiast’s perspective.

@@CraigMarolf The pumped in engine noise is a simple code you can disable, it’s unnoticeable on the F90/G8x generation cars. He gave an example from the F10/F80 cars that were first gen systems. Furthermore, you speak as if the E92 is the pinnacle of the M series 😂 You realize to E46 drivers, your car is fat, slow for the time, and has no steering feel

@@RayQ101 i made zero mention of speed. Correct me if I’m wrong, we’re talking about sound here, right? I mean, if all I cared about was speed I’d just buy a Tesla (with all the charisma of a toaster) and be done with it. Speed is a commodity now and everything today is faster than the fastest things a decade ago. The one thing that will never make a comeback is the engine sound. And that’s why I brought up the e92 M3, arguably one of the best sounding BMWs (behind maybe the original M1 and the e60 M5). I’m not sure where you’re getting the numb steering thing from. That’s the first time I’ve ever heard anyone not praise the e9x steering. You may be mistaking it for the F8x’s electronic steering. But again, we’re talking about sound here, so I digress. I don’t have 8 hours to list all the cars faster than any of the cars you just mentioned. And next years will be faster than this year’s cars. There’s probably minivans being produced today that are faster than 10-20 year old M cars. Besides, accelerating super fast from red light to red light became super lame after like high school. I’m almost 40. Nobody has ever laughed at a Porsche 356 because it’s slow. Or pretty much any other classic. Yes. Of course they are slow by today’s standards. But they’re still cool.

I like "Bring Mich Werkstatt" which means "Get me to the Garage"

@@s1nnocense this one... this makes sense

actually its for "bei mercedes weggeschmissen" - thrown away by mercedes :)

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Break My Wallet.

That is exactly what it does. It's just a weight connected to the windshield frame underneath the cowl. They do also offer another variant, which actually consists of a speaker in the exhaust system. That one is used in high-horsepower Diesel models (and some turbo gas engine cars as well).

I want the "päpple päpple päpple päpple"

VRRROOOOMVRRROOOOMM!!! Great!!!🤣😂

I just want to swap the external engine noise with Ice Cream truck sounds.

Tesla added the ability to upload your own MP3 files to play out of the speakers. Did not take long for someone to add the coconut gallop from Monty Python

@@jackielinde7568 In order to attract small children? Are you driving an old white van?

and it gets even quieter when you add a particulate filter too

And noise regulations

Yes

A turbo will cause more exhaust to come out of the motor, because it is using exhaust gas to force more air into the engine. More air in means more air out.

You are using a lot of the exhaust energy to spin a turbine, so the gas coming out the tailpipe has less pressure, less heat, less everything.

Car execs: "Write that down! Write that down!"

I remember that story! Simpson did a parody of that.

You know fossil fuels are mainly (like 99.999%+) decomposed plant matter, right?

@@AlanTheBeast100 Yes, but i only burn the good stuff which used to be dinosaurs. Gives the engine that certain roar. Plant fuel is for vegetarians.

@@user-zr1ij2nz6j Weak. Lame. Noise.

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That would kind of suck because not only is there more engine noise, but there's also more wind and road noise, which isn't what you want

He also said that turbos reduce the amount of exhaust going out... I could've sworn that when you up the boost you also up the waste products in direct relation... but you know, who am I to argue...

Sam needs a trigger warning for engineers at the start of the video.

@ladawg81 It acts as a muffler, as it is an object that sits in the exhaust stream. There are a few turbo sporty-cars that just don't have mufflers because of this, and I remove mufflers on turbo cars I own. They don't become obnoxiously loud.

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Ayo

he put deez

"it was fast, and delicous"

I loved how the funniness of him sounding them out, distracted from the great choice of fake names he picked for those logos/companies.

@@PaulSmithVPS Had to rewatch that bit to appreciate the animation work.

Acura's "Active Sound Control" is exactly that. ASC is disabled in sport mode so the driver can hear the engine better. This system works only on low pitches, so it's not going to cancel a siren.

there are cars with active noise cancellation/layered passive noise cancellation

So far, they don't seem to have encountered anyone who wants quiet... I am SOOO with you!

They exist, but they don’t work as well as you’d think. Not as well as I hoped, anyway.

Rolls Royce has this, especially in the back. You can litterally hear the mechanical clock ticking, even cruising at 100km/h on cobbled stone or dirt road. No vibration noises either, no tyre noise and even the aircon fans are silent on full blast.

He did and it pisses me off

Which one is which? They are so hard to tell apart.

they are both sedans and one will run forever and one burns oil

@@catalintimofti1117 one is made for people who know how cars work and the other one for people who get tricked by microsoft call center scam

@@jessepost1108 change the camry color and you'll see i'm sure

Probably not. Airplane engines are stupid loud and passengers want them as quiet as possible.

@@jonathancasper04 fell for the bait

@@jonathancasper04 r/whooosh :D

@@SmokeyTube technically if they used it for noise cancellation they would by playing fake engine sounds

They say - you have many choices, thanks you for choosing southwest, that sounds fake

They make noise due to high motor rpm and straight cut reduction gears

[ANGRY WHINING NOISES]

Which fuse? Did the radio still work? I have a 15 Ecoboost, and I love it, but I HATE the 4 cylinder sound.

its only weird when u binge on those genacidal and rapists pages

Not at all. This channel is a whole Wikipedia binge from Sam. It used to be a section in Wendover called "that Wikipedia List", so yeah

Youll get really pissed when you learn about CVTs and how they are a great technology saddled with absolute clowns failing to properly explain to people what they are and then covering up that failure by making them operate inefficiently to meet incorrect expectations. CVTs, literally are just more efficient, mostly due to their variability, and because car companies didn't want to put any budget into explaining that to people, they made them fake being gears.

Your profile pic is weirder

What's the Wikipedia page.

I know right! And most people around here are just talking about these useless "cars"!?

Ears are on your head, not your face

Indeed, probably one of the best segments of television, i mean RU-vid 😆

I was wondering about that as well, to me there's nothing more exciting than the sound of turbochargers sucking air kicking in. And a V8 alone can't be that bad, right?

While only slightly related, I initially *hated* the Formula E cars in Forza 6 for the same reason. All of the audio cues for speed were gone. Racetracks are already poor visual references for speed, I had to turn the cheater line back on! 😂

Electric cars do already make artificial noise on the outside when moving (especially at low speed). In fact I think it's mandatory.

@you know this Dammit man

@@epender And it's effing annoying as hell. I want quiet cars for god sakes, cars are defeaning in a city.

@@xmtxx The noise is really a lot better than the exhaust of a car, especially when accelerating from a stop or up a hill. You can barely hear it over other noises like wind noise and tyre noise at a distance anyway.

They have external speakers that play a hum or an artificial sound. You can actually tell which brand is coming up based off their sound, it's like their own signature lol. But aside from that, you can also hear the motor whine or transistor whine as well. It's like an old TV turning on. It's like EEEEEEEEEEE, quite high pitched but it's hard to miss. You can hear that on top of all those sounds so technically, even if there weren't an external speaker, that's another option unless you're hard of hearing I guess. Also, for reference, I'm 38 so it's not one of those young people sound alert things.

Well, imagine all the engine sounds in a top tier racing simulator. Those are all pre-recorded and then spliced to active during certain events, and can even manipulate itself to cut out and play other noises (like if your car stalls, or something in the engine breaks). We've come a long way from "ey bud, just Rev the engine and we'll just loop it" like they did in gta San Andreas, for instance.

While I am generally in agreement with you, being a former motorcycle rider I will say. You want a loud bike as a safety device because so many car drivers seem incapable of seeing motorcycles. The noise helps to let them know that you exist.

If the motorcycle is not only invisible but also silent, how would anyone know that it is there? I'd want an electric motorcycle to make sound, such as by using a really harsh sounding vvvf driver for the motor.

Insert South Park vroom vroom vrooom

@@user2C47 Train horn.

@@Kitt_the_Katt I think hes talking about those doofuses that want car louder than a jet engine just for driving in suburban aread

Me too. It would be good if they made it clear that you can turn it off, but that would also ruin it for the people who like them loud.

@@adog3129 Just call it "Active Sound Cancellation", which really means "[Active Sound] Cancellation", but people will think it means "Active [Sound Cancellation]".

@@gigaherz_ THAT'S A REALLY GOOD IDEA

When I hear a car with an exhaust that's intentionally made louder, I imagine that the driver is a guy who has a small penis and feels insecure about it.

If it's a good sounding car, it's amazing. Most are not good sounding. The exceptions are a reason to keep on living, just to hear them. Long live the LFA.

some gas cars are whisper quiet hell some diesel cars sound like bkthing

They're adding it to the inside of the car though, so the driver gets all the noise they want without annoying people outside as much

Even if electric cars become a majority they will likely be mandated to produce sound so that pedestrians can hear them. This is just like trucks are regulated to produce sound when they back up so people are made aware of them.

@@mina86 Seriously EVs are so quiet i can’thear them when crossing the road

Millions of third world people will have to be poisoned by lithium mining to make that happen. But hey, at least your sensitive ass ears will get a rest

Not sure about roar, but I do want to see an EV that makes really loud power driver noise at low speeds, like a 400Hz square wave.

bruhmobile incoming 3 2 1

They also make vacuum cleaners louder than they have to so people think they're still working

@@Gebenki ugh the stupid things we do just to get out ape brains to orgasm is ugh

Teslas actually do this.

yeah that had me confused too

It's quite simple really. The turbo compresses the air so it has less volume when it exits the vehicle, where it can quietly re-expand. That's how engines work right?

Excellent reference

@@andrewharrison8436 Excellent story. Very prescient in many ways.

I was looking for this comment.

It's the new Ferrari F40 Powerplant Head-end, or F40PH for short. I hear it has 16 cylinders and 3,000 horsepower.

There was a part in the video where he talked about cars muffling the engine when you’re cruising and only amplifying it when you accelerate quickly

Cruising wise, you’re not, but car enthusiast wise, yes 😂

I'm the exact opposite. I don't listen to music so I can hear the turbos whining.

Lol I know, right? Cause no one ever thought to look at their speedometer to see how fast their going. Judging by how fast people go down my street, I'd say that unfortunately they actually don't look at it. Officer: do you know how fast you were going? Driver: what is this 'fast' concept you're talking about?

Yeah because the title of the video wasn't explicit enough. 🙄

Hello! I come from Germany, although my English isn't great, SoundAktor is an word wich hasn't been invented, we Germans always invent new words, that never get outside of Germany, coming to the point, SoundAktor is Sound actor. Just a sound producer. Yea, actor.... We Germans are stupid, I know.

@@Chavestro Ich komme auch aus Deutschland. Die englische Übersetzung für „Aktor“ oder „Aktuator“ (Bauelement, das elektrische Signale in mechanische Bewegung oder in andere physikalische Größen umsetzt) ist „actuator“ („actor“ heißt „Schauspieler“).

​@@Chavestro English speakers needed a word for a new flavor that was strong but not spicy or sweet, so we just used "Umami" from japanese. Loan words are in many languages, nothing weird about it

@@chr13 I speak very little German, but I actually was able to understand the basic idea of this comment. The point: I feel good about myself.

Yeah but audiophiles in Germany have been using sound as a "hip" replacement for the word klang to describe the sound quality of saudio equipment for decades.

EVs also produce proportionally more tire noise due to being heavier. They're still quieter obviously overall but they're most definitely not silent even at low speeds

I think the regulations are focusing on speeds on the order of 5mph, where tire noise is insignificant and wind noise is nonexistent.

Ok but engine go vroom vroom

except that electrics are made with better acoustic dampening technology, like Tesla's proprietary glass.

@@danytalksmusic that only affects the people inside of the car, who are not the people who need warned of oncoming cars

autistic person?

My Autistic friend likes it when his car is louf AF and goes bang bang lmao

@@yanmustand yep, because autistic people aren’t all the same 😐

@@yanmustand Every autistic person is different. Just like every neuro-typical (normal) person is different. Some enjoy quietness and others, loud noises.

Until some genius has the amazing idea to put VroomVroom-speakers on quiet electric cars because people seemingly have the IQ of a doorknob and can’t cross a street without killing themselves when the approaching car doesn’t sound like an orchestra with nails in their instruments…