What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World

Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W... by gadders on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:00AM (#15958771)

I wonder if there will need to be a replacement noise given to electric cars for safety reasons. Will they all have to make a fake broom-broom noise, or will some other noise be chosen? Maybe they'll be silent until they detect pedestrians or in built-up areas.

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Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W... by PeterisP on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @05:33AM (#15959223)

IIRC many places already have a legal requirement for replacement noise for safety reasons, usually the criteria is that it must be active below a certain speed.

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Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W... by gerbilly on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:58AM (#15960208)

UGH.

I can't tell you much about the future, but I will make one prediction.

In the future, everything will be constantly beeping.

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Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W... by gadders on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:29AM (#15961311)

I was trying to think of a noise that could replace broom-broom that would be less annoying but non-natural but couldn't think of one.

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