US Lawmakers To Force Quiet EVs To Make Noises
One of the joys of driving an electric car is the silence around town, but the American authorities have decided you’re not allowed to have that any more.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has ruled that from 2019 all new electric and hybrid vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of less than 10,000lb must make noises below 19mph.
It says it’s concerned for blind people crossing the road, estimating that 2400 pedestrian injuries will be prevented every year. Hmmm.
But that does mean that streets could become a confusion of different kinds of noises at different volumes, different pitches and at all sorts of frequencies. Paracetamol sales could skyrocket.
So, now manufacturers will need to decide how to make their EVs audible without turning them into the single most annoying thing in the world. We wish them good luck with that.
Source: Jalopnik
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The NHTSA will come up with a set noise, or else intersections will be extremely confusing for those that are blind. My suggestion is an F1 car headed down the straight at Fuji circuit…
Yep
So someone who owns will have to download the im smug.mp3 ie fart sounds
i’d imagine in the future, ev noises are going to be like TF2 hitmarker noises, some people have a the default one, some people have a duck, and some people have an asparagus being dropped from a tv on to a cat
A v8
2jz Prius
Remove the sound deadening around the electric motor maybe, electric cars can be loud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk6H4ihxoRA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVkJjt_Peg0
This is why the United States is a joke at this point.