steve841
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No sound.
How about a novel idea like personal responsibility for a welcome change? Nanny state? No thanks.
How about a novel idea like personal responsibility for a welcome change? Nanny state? No thanks.
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agreed - but they're thinking of for the blind.No sound.
How about a novel idea like personal responsibility for a welcome change? Nanny state? No thanks.
NICE!Actually, I can the reverse happening more often: places where you can get a "service" appointment to sabotage the artificial noise speaker.
agreed - but they're thinking of for the blind.
I do like how quiet it is though.
The idea of adding noise to EVs may be well intentioned but stupid.
Short of those who are blind and out walking through streets, the concept is nonsense.
The cats hear you, the birds hear you, they see you....if they run in front of you, well not so good. But birds fly into my glass building dozens of times a year, I clipped a cat on a loud motorcycle at 5mph, I've taken out several birds in my diesel truck. Funny, though, I've never seen or hit a blind person.
Last summer, I was driving my company's Volt through a restaurant parking lot when a small child ran out from my right in an area that I didn't have good visibility to. My wife hollered out and I was able to stop in time. Now, kids run around like that a lot, but I am convinced that part of the issue was that the little girl didn't hear me coming. There has been talk of mandating "noisemakers" for EVs for exactly this reason. Just wondering if current EV drivers have any observations, tips or techniques for this issue.
This is one concern I had last year when I started a thread about needing at "pedestrian-type horn", one not as loud or startling as the primary horn, but a less harsh warning signal that I am right here. Most commenters loved the idea, but that was as far as it went.
Multiple threads have covered this.
Auto minimum sound level was started in 2010 and more recently Should EVs Make Artificial Sounds at Low Speeds? - Page 21
There has already been a bill passed to require noises so all the stupid people will continue to multiply.