Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/11/15/electric-cars-must-now-emit-en.html
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Maybe I should add that to my bike too. A low, threatening growl to scare everyone in the bike lane.
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I’m on board with this idea.
Jaws theme perhaps?
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Playing card in the spokes. Done.
Okay…maybe not growly enough
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Good.
I almost got hit by a low speed Prius that was driving where it shouldn’t have been, and came up behind me as I walked. Scared the shit out of both me and the driver when I changed my path into its path without seeing it because it was behind me.
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Jetsons car sounds.
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My wife’s 2013 (I think) Prius V came with this. It sounds like some kind of Star Trek engine effect, a sort of oscillating whirr-hum, and the pitch and volume are speed-dependent in coarse steps.
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Cars have been “enhancing” engine noise artificially for years.
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Why don’t we have them emit the sweet scent of partially combusted hydrocarbons while we’re at it?
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I started playing music through my phone’s internal speakers whenever I bike, after one too many pedestrians jaywalked right in front of me while looking in the opposite direction. A fair amount of the music could be described as a low, threatening growl. It works.
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Just in case anybody is wondering “how oblivious can somebody be to not see a car”:
An 80-year-old man finishing a half marathon was killed yesterday in Ft. Lauderdale.
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Isn’t that murder on the battery life?
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I knew this was coming. Can we have some fun with this? Does it have to be a real engine sound? Cell phones no longer ring like real phones with bells. I think I would have it sound like a Jetsons car. Oh oh, or a TIE Fighter. Or some cartoon jalopy sound with horns and bonks and ratchet sounds. Or a hydraulic stomping mech sound. If we can do that, I think they just sold me on an electric car.
Here are some ideas:
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I haven’t really noticed that to be the case. It’s certainly not as bad as wifi usage or playing some games with no sound.
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Or the Imperial March. Or the theme from Speed Racer. Or the launch sounds from a Saturn 5. I’m thinking that just like ringtones, there is a market here.
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Yeah, my 2014 Prius C does this.
It’s not quite enough. People will still walk directly in my way in parking lots and then suddenly turn around, startled to realize there’s a car behind them.
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I would want mine to emit a polite cough
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As a Midwesterner, I love this idea.
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Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries?
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But think of the possibilities. The theme from “Jaws”? the sound of chickens?
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