You're listening to 20,000 hz.
If I had to pick the most important sound of the last hundred years, I might choose this.
The internal combustion engine.
But most likely, over the next 30 years, that sound will start to fade away.
In 2022, electric vehicles made up more than 10% of global cardinal sales.
And many experts predict that before long, the majority of cars will be electric.
Which raises the question, if we won't hear this sound anymore, what will we hear instead?
So we asked ourselves, how would Mother nature solve this problem?
That's Dexter Garcia.
I'm a co founder of a company called Audio UX.
We're an audio branding agency that has a unique specialty in sound design for electric vehicles.
Audio UX was founded in 2017.
That was the same year that a us regulation about the sound of hybrid and electric cars went into effect.
Earlier this year, President Obama signed the.
Pedestrian Safety Enhancement act, giving auto manufacturers.
Until 2017 to come up with a solution to the problem of noiseless cars.
The law required these cars to make a warning sound when driving at low speeds.
These sounds are known as the acoustic vehicle alerting system, or avas.
You've probably heard some of these sounds yourself.
Here's one that's used on some Teslas, and here's the Avas sound from a Nissan leaf.