Autonomous Vehicles

Indeed, electric cars may produce less brake dust particles than an ICE. However they are also heavier than ICE and the tires will shed more particles over time.

And electric cars are also somewhat less noisy but they cannot beat the laws of physics. You can still hear an electric car coming because of the noise tires make on the roads over certain speeds. The higher the speed, the noisier it is. Even if all the cars on a multi lane highway were all electric, it would still be noisy and difficult to have a conversation nearby. A six lane highway filled with electric cars will still need a sound wall.

There are also regulations to have electric cars make artificial noise to be "safe" at low speed, and some sound like they are constantly honking at low volume.

Like, yes, those two points are marginally better with electric cars, but it's not much. And it doesn't cancel all the other negative issues with cars.

I don't want to mention the other major output of regular cars versus electric cars, either.

(Arguments about just shifting the location of burning aside, we are specifically talking about the effect on nearby people)