Cars aren't loud; commercial vehicles are. (Relatively) So are motorcycles, and food truck generators.
The illegal street racing near me says otherwise.
You can't equate "illegal street racing" to "cars". I mean you can but how is that going to address anything?
If I am walking down the street, listening to something on my earphones, I inevitably have to pause/rewind if a non-commerical car is passing by.
I could maybe get headphones, or some noise cancelling earphones, but I shouldn't have to.
Valid; I should have clarified. This is a matter of degree, not kind.
Commercial vehicles are much louder than cars. Especially at the lower speeds where engine noise dominates tire noise.
Are pickup trucks "commercial vehicles"? Either way there's plenty of them in residential areas, revving up at 5am or rumbling home in the dead of night.
They really don't need to be, but jerks sometimes do modify them to be loud even when idling. About five years ago I lived in a neighborhood where some jackass would idle his modified truck every morning at a quarter till 5am. He'd leave around 5am and you could hear the truck for at least a minute as he left the neighborhood and started accelerating hard on the highway. His house was across the street and four doors down and his truck still could be heard through my bedroom window which faced the backyard. I don't know how his next door neighbors tolerated it. This was an exurban area with lots of pickups and even a few commercial vehicles in the neighborhood but he was the only one whose vehicle was loud and it obviously was made that way intentionally.
No; they do not have the loud engines I referred to.
You've obviously never been passed by a straight piped Dodge Ram while riding a bike.
The Mustang that parks my street and operates 100% of the time in Sport Mode is the loudest vehicle I hear on a regular basis.
I will update this: Y'all have valid points regarding cars making noise:
Non-modified personal vehicles are significantly less loud than commercial vehicles, motorcycles, and food truck generators.