American exceptionalism at its finest. In the civilized world, headlights have carefully-shaped beams that slant away from oncoming drivers while still illuminating the road well. Here we have FMVSS 108.
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Have you ever driven an electric car? I’ve driven only electric for the past six years, and I can tell you 100% that the silence is a problem.
Your characterization is insufficiently nuanced. Sound from vehicles is a communication channel to pedestrians. It increases their awareness of you so that we can all work together to share spaces. It’s not a case of me wanting them to dive out of the way (come on, don’t make disingenuous arguments like that), it’s that we’re all safer if we’re all aware.
You see this very strongly in parking lots. With an ICE car, people move to the sides as you approach from behind. With electric, they blithely stroll down the middle of the lane or lurch out in front of you, totally unaware you are there. Not only does this hold up traffic for everyone, it is dangerous for everyone.
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Trolleybuses here. As you notice, even if fully electric maker a clear noise.
Maybe the strange noise is the engine that is drive with some strange chopper circuit and that is the actual noise? So it could explain the pitch change…
And old trams are way more noisy. Mainly due the gear configuration.
Heh. I used to play the shit out of that game. That one and Xian’d Sleena
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That’s pretty much the case at the moment. I’ve never found myself confusing city traffic with Grieg’s Morgenstemning.
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Put a baseball card in the spokes.
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I remember those trams well, and that route, from Brussels through the woods to Tervuren, was one of the last to give them up. Ironic, because the route is one of the most bosky and non-urban of the whole network.
Would it be terribly distracting if each car in the neighborhood set chose to emulate a different musician in Foghat? D’Cuckoo? SFO Gay Mens’ Chorus? L7? A bossa nova quintet?
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I think is because a lot of people uses their smartphones to whatsapp and the like and not to make and receive regular calls.
I think that electric vehicle make ‘naturally’ noises. These noises should mark the presence of the vehicle.
Note the implication that she’s done it more than once. You’d think that you might start to check under the car after the first one.
I wouldn’t want to be a child in that neighbourhood.
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Does she not know how to honk the horn?
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I’m sympathetic and am not trying to victim blame here, because it sucks to lose a pet… but also maybe keep your cats inside, so they can’t be out there to a) kill birds and other wildlife, and b) get run over?
Yes.
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I enjoy watching electric motorcycle racing. One of the most common complaints I hear from the internal combustion racing aficionados is that they don’t like the lack of sound. Maybe they should use a clothes pin to mount a special high-tech titanium playing card to the swing arm or something.
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