Low speed humming

[Wedway88]

Anyone notice their car “humming”? Recently noticed the car will have an electric hum only between the speeds of 1-20mph? Car did not originally do this.

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[jrstinkfish]

You sure it's not the external sound meant to warn pedestrians at those speeds?

 

[hybrid2bev]

Anyone notice their car “humming”? Recently noticed the car will have an electric hum only between the speeds of 1-20mph? Car did not originally do this.

https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/loud-humming-vibrating-video-attached.8338/

Have a listen to the sound on this link. Pedestrian alert noise is completely normal.

 

[JohnnyForensic]

You sure it's not the external sound meant to warn pedestrians at those speeds?

Yup, this. Hybrids and BEVs have some kind of sound (all different) that play from an external speaker when you're about 0-17 mph. Something like that.

 

[DYohn]

Mine purrs, hums and clicks when I walk by it. Not sure if this is because it's happy to see me or a warning to stay away.

 

[Wedway88]

Y

https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/loud-humming-vibrating-video-attached.8338/

Have a listen to the sound on this link. Pedestrian alert noise is completely normal.

It’s a different noise then that. I’ll have to make video and post later.

 

[Tsoltan]

I totally get the safety feature of this. Is there a way to disable it when you're, say, going through an Arboretum with the windows down trying to enjoy nature in peace and quite? There's got to be a way to code an intelligent disable feature for stuff like this. I'd rather drive an ICE car through the Morton Arboretum in Illinois than a BEV that's louder at those speeds.

 

[benk016]

Anyone notice their car “humming”? Recently noticed the car will have an electric hum only between the speeds of 1-20mph? Car did not originally do this.

https://www.macheforum.com/site/threads/pedestriansounf-aka-spaceship-sound-video.9142/

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

Yup, this. Hybrids and BEVs have some kind of sound (all different) that play from an external speaker when you're about 0-17 mph. Something like that.

I still think we should be able to pick our pedestrian alert sound in the setting menu. Sell us an add-on sound pack. No really. I want the Jetson's car sound. That'd be cool.

I totally get the safety feature of this. Is there a way to disable it when you're, say, going through an Arboretum with the windows down trying to enjoy nature in peace and quite? There's got to be a way to code an intelligent disable feature for stuff like this. I'd rather drive an ICE car through the Morton Arboretum in Illinois than a BEV that's louder at those speeds.

Well, it's a Federally mandated sound. It's actually been the law for a long, long time but has been quite slow to be implemented, so no way to get rid of it via design. This is not to say it can't be permanently eliminated by an owner after the fact. There are threads "here," "somewhere" on such a thing.

Anyone notice their car “humming”? Recently noticed the car will have an electric hum only between the speeds of 1-20mph? Car did not originally do this.

Make sure the humming you're hearing does not come from the instrument cluster screen forward of the steering wheel. There are several very long threads about that hum here on the forums as well. Then there's the somewhat natural hum of the motors anyway that may be more noticeable to someone who is not a retired airline pilot who flew airplanes for over 40 years.

 

[HuntingPudel]

I still think we should be able to pick our pedestrian alert sound in the setting menu. Sell us an add-on sound pack. No really. I want the Jetson's car sound. That'd be cool.
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I’d love to be able to put a recording of my big Pontiac into it. Rumpity-rumpity!

 

[GoGoGadgetMachE]

Anyone notice their car “humming”? Recently noticed the car will have an electric hum only between the speeds of 1-20mph? Car did not originally do this.

sorry, that was me. I was in a good mood and humming as a result.

 

[hybrid2bev]

@GoGoGadgetMachE I think it was my son while he was eating.

 

[Wedway88]

Sorry this is late….could be going crazy at this point ? seems to be louder on wet humid days….or like I said I’m crazy. Seems to peak at 16mph

 

[prdude]

Sorry this is late….could be going crazy at this point ? seems to be louder on wet humid days….or like I said I’m crazy. Seems to peak at 16mph

has anyone been able to play this .mov file? I'm being told I need to download a new CODEC to play it

 

[ManInBlack]

I played the video on my iPhone. Sounds like instrument panel buzz to me. Very annoying. Luckily, my MME does not have this issue (sorry, not trying to rub it in).
Admittedly, it’s hard to tell where it’s coming from in the video. So it might not be the buzz from the display but it also didn’t seem to disappear at 20 moh either.

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