__dev, 8 months ago

To be fair, they said “moving car”. They’re correct; cars moving at high speed produce significantly more tyre noise than engine noise. Larger vehicles have much more engine noise, so the speed at which tyre noise dominates is also higher.

References:

• …com.au/will-electric-cars-make-traffic-quieter-y…
• researchgate.net/…/Propulsion-noise-the-tyre-road…