It's a local downturn, but I don't think the industry or career is dead. It's still a darn good job compared to most others, even if not quite as over the top.
- In most of the city shots, you can clearly hear that road/tire noise and honking are by far the loudest noises. EVs won't change this.
- In the Delft segment, a train was the most significant source of noise so they removed it. Yes, public transit is incredibly loud, much louder than cars.
- The video specifically says that road/tire noise is louder than engine noises for most cars at certain speeds. EVs won't change this.
- Cars are not at all the loudest vehicles he measures, and heavy cars were louder than lighter ones. EVs are significantly heavier than equivalent ICE cars.
- He specifically says that EVs are probably worse noise offenders at higher speeds due to being heavy and having wider tires.
- He specifically measured passing Teslas and they were the exact same loudness as ICE cars.
Hence the arguments make my point for me: EVs are not going to improve city noise levels much if at all. I dislike noise too. But EVs are not the solution here (and if you've ever listened to most public transit, neither is that).
Switching lines, waiting on connections, and coordinating, of course.
This is true of all public transit systems, even the best ones. Unless you live directly at the source station and have a direct shot to your destination station, you're going to waste a lot of time changing buses/trains and waiting and coordinating.
And not everybody can live near every transit hub, not even near _a_ transit hub, by definition.
Cars are point-to-point. The very best public transit can do is match it in terms of pure speed.
Public transport has a much higher bandwidth at the expense of individual travel time. It's a trade-off. Naturally there's a limit to how many cars can dive at any given time in any given city, but I'd definitely expect the average public transit time to be 2-5x the equivalent individual transportation (bicycle if possible/car) transit time.