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explain cars?
"so basically we had the technology to make electric carriages that make basically no noise and are about as safe as one drawn by a horse, but instead we made them billow smoke so all the kids get asthma and then to put the kids out of their misery we made them go 70 km/h down residential streets. This is considered perfectly fine and not anything to worry about, since it means people get to work 50 seconds faster and thus they get to spend more time staring at a device that sucks away their will to live."
Cars generate most of their noise from rolling when at road speed.
https://youtu.be/CTV-wwszGw8?t=457
Given roads are stationary they have no speed and therefore road speed generates no noise
I think the reason electric cars didn't become popular was because they didn't make any noise. If you buy a brand new luxury item like a motorcar you want people to know you have it, so a spluttering engine was more popular than a quiet electric one.
Batteries were pretty rough at the time I'd imagine. I know that certain niches did use electric cars historically. Milk trucks in Britain for example were known to be electric.