Re: [PD] Future of Motorsounds in Electric Cars and Games

2010-07-11 Thread Andy Farnell
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:01:46 -0400 ede cameron wrote: > The problem now is for sure that if there is a mix of different types > of cars (electric and gas) and that we are use to a certain volume within > our environment, buses and gas driven cars. If this volume was lowered > for only electric

Re: [PD] Future of Motorsounds in Electric Cars and Games

2010-07-11 Thread András Murányi
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:49 PM, ede cameron wrote: > > On 2010-07-11, at 12:16 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > > > On Sun, 11 Jul 2010, ede cameron wrote: > > > >> rules is more than likely the reason they aren't been developed. I'm > sure we envision flying cars as the chance of flying from A to

Re: [PD] Future of Motorsounds in Electric Cars and Games

2010-07-11 Thread ede cameron
On 2010-07-11, at 12:16 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jul 2010, ede cameron wrote: > >> rules is more than likely the reason they aren't been developed. I'm sure we >> envision flying cars as the chance of flying from A to B in a straight line. >> The mess that would be created with

Re: [PD] Future of Motorsounds in Electric Cars and Games

2010-07-11 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010, ede cameron wrote: rules is more than likely the reason they aren't been developed. I'm sure we envision flying cars as the chance of flying from A to B in a straight line. The mess that would be created with everyone flying from A to B in a straight line would be chaos to

Re: [PD] Future of Motorsounds in Electric Cars and Games

2010-07-11 Thread ede cameron
Actually after some thought and with what you said if all cars made less sound but a similar type of sound then the adjustment would come for both hearing and sightless people. The problem now is for sure that if there is a mix of different types of cars (electric and gas) and that we are use t

Re: [PD] Future of Motorsounds in Electric Cars and Games

2010-07-11 Thread Andy Farnell
This last paragraph inviting a minimum noise standard is reasonable. > On Wednesday, the president of the NFB's Maryland chapter planned to > present written testimony asking for a minimum sound standard for > hybrids to be included in the state's .. And along with that a maximum noise standa

Re: [PD] Future of Motorsounds in Electric Cars and Games

2010-07-10 Thread ede cameron
>From my understanding having quiet cars (electric) make noise (our some sound >similar to a gas driven car) is due to pressure primarily from the blind who rely on the sound cars make to navigate in urban environments. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21112810/ ede On 2010-07-10, at 7:43 AM, Andy

Re: [PD] Future of Motorsounds in Electric Cars and Games

2010-07-10 Thread Andy Farnell
The translation was so bad you might even get completely reversed scores for some of these questions. An interesting topic though. I've discussed this with two groups of undergrad and masters students recently. It is likely that legislation will quickly be needed to deal with customised car so

Re: [PD] Future of Motorsounds in Electric Cars and Games

2010-07-09 Thread George Ker
Hi Hans, I 'd really like to help because I found it interesting, but it was a really hard thing for me. I felt like working - not just answering questions. A lot of questions , were too hard to understand! They were auto-translated to English - NOT by a human, did they? ( - Even as a passenger ca

Re: [PD] Future of Motorsounds in Electric Cars and Games

2010-07-08 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, András Murányi wrote: ALERT!) - Some of the (english language) questions were really hard for to understand (maybe because i'm not native english either) - Lot of talk about sound with no sounds! I would have been happy to listen to different sounds and express my preferenc

Re: [PD] Future of Motorsounds in Electric Cars and Games

2010-07-08 Thread András Murányi
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:17 PM, hghoyer wrote: > Hi, > > I would be glad if you participate in my brief survey. > It is about sounds in computer games and electric cars ... > http://research.hghoyer.de/index.php?sid=71581&lang=en > > Sorry, my question has to do only indirectly related to PD. > I

[PD] Future of Motorsounds in Electric Cars and Games

2010-07-08 Thread hghoyer
Hi, I would be glad if you participate in my brief survey. It is about sounds in computer games and electric cars ... http://research.hghoyer.de/index.php?sid=71581&lang=en Sorry, my question has to do only indirectly related to PD. I am happy you are interested, include evaluation of the survey!