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I think it's a nice idea OUTSIDE the vehicle.

But some car manufacturers are idiots (no other word) and add sounds INSIDE the vehicle.

The Nissan Leaf has tons of gratuitous sounds that cheapen the car.

When you turn the car on and off, they have startup and shutdown sounds like a cheap canon camera.

And they have a "futuristic" driving motor sound, which is probably damaging some of your hearing frequencies on long drives.

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Wait the whirr sound on the Nissan Leaf is coming from a speaker?? I have had a Leaf since 2016 and thought that was just the sound the motor makes (my first EV).

Outside sound for pedestrians on the Leaf is not annoying and a good safety feature IMO.

I believe leafspy will let you disable these sounds individually. You have to have a 2013 or later leaf. You also have to buy the leafspy app + an inexpensive bluetooth OBD2 dongle.

I'm actually a fan of gratuitous noise inside the cabin, as hopefully it reminds drivers of the noise nuisance they make outside.

If only there was a way to pipe and amplify their tyre noise into the cabin too instead of having it insulated away.

Do you have any idea how loud iron-shod wagon wheels on cobblestones are? They're not quiet, for sure.

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