I agree, it reminds me of a project I saw on behance a few years ago, called “Design to discourage”. It was a cigarette packaging that made it difficult and tedious to get a cigarette out easily, with the intension of annoying the user into quitting.
This project feels very similar with it’s whistle, and the noise would very likely discourage me from ever wanting to drive the vehicle. Unless you can somehow tune the whistle to sound like a 90’s F1 car 