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I suspect there will be legal limits...

As with restrictions on neon lights on lowriders and things like that, something that would be too loud or distracting to other drivers would probably have rules against it, although I hope that the restrictions aren't too onerous. I'd like to see some creativity. Classical music?

A lot of thought goes into startup chimes and things like that for computers. If people worked on this problem for a while, I imagine a sort of "basic" sound would develop, like a "basic" headlamp, a pleasant, calm hum that changed frequency slightly with acceleration and deceleration.

If you worked it right, a slow line of traffic would sound like a lazy summer afternoon in a clover field among thousands of bees...

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