I propose we record NASCAR or Indy car or Harley sounds and play them thru a speaker in the grill. LOL
Seriously it is a safety issue and it makes sense. I just wonder what the sound will be. Please no silly beeping. Any other ideas?
"Electric cars, which have soundless engines, would need to make noises to let pedestrians know they’re near, under a U.S. proposed rule released yesterday.
Sounds would need to be detectable when vehicles are traveling slower than 18 miles per hour (29 kilometers) so electric and hybrid-electric cars can be heard by bicyclists and pedestrians, particularly the visually impaired, under the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rule."
SOURCE for LJ and Archer (Gubbermint NHTSA) www. lol .com
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This sound seems appropriate, the gasoline engine is about the same displacement and most of the hybrid cars are about the same size as a chainsaw:
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Is this a reaction to some significant number of accidents or is it just sensible.
I wonder if there was discussions when the autocar first starting becoming popular about requiring them to make CLOP-CLOP sounds.
Seems like after all the discussion recently of sources, where is the source data for the damage the silent cars have done to us and the reasonable study as whether such a problem is likely to persist without regulation.
Interesting that this would mean that there is a specific range of volume sound that your car MUST produce, not too little, not too much, just right.
I would like to see the first ticket for "Excessive use of Silence" that will be a classic.
I think if this passes it should just keep saying, "I have bigger fish to fry" in that obvious voice. Oh the irony.
We actually had this problem in autocross when the Tesla showed up. The people out shagging cones get busy trying to pick up cones before the next car comes, but tend to listen for the noise, they couldn't hear the car coming. We tried to solve the problem by announcing each time the Tesla was up for it's runs. No one has been hit yet.
I was thinking maybe a peaceful bird chirping or some other nature sound. Actually the motors do make a whinning whirring kind of sound, it is just low level. Maybe just amplify that sound.
It must drive the car makers nuts though, they try to design car interiors to be as quiet as possible, now the regulators tell them to make some noise, LOL
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Bird chirping would confuse people since some walk signals chirp. F1's or Ferrari's coming down the straight. No one would ever cross the street again.
