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Nissan Gives Electric Cars Blade Runner Audio Effect
mateuscb writes "A campaign backed by automakers and some lawmakers to make electric or hybrid cars noisier in a bid to increase safety for pedestrians and cyclists has taken a strange, Blade Runner-type twist. Nissan sound engineers have announced that the Leaf electric car set for release next year will emit a 'beautiful and futuristic' noise similar to the sound of flying cars — or 'spinners' — that buzz around 2019 Los Angeles in Ridley Scott's dystopian thriller based on a Philip K. Dick science fiction novel."
... or only have it come on, when a sensor(s) actually detect a human/animal nearby (visually, thermally etc.).
So you're taking a proposed new feature that'd cost maybe 10 or 20 bucks to incorporate into the car, and bumping it up so it'll add a few thousand to the cost of the vehicle? Brilliant!
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So, let me get this straight, when a pedestrian is crossing the road when "the law" says it's appropriate, and you come barreling around the corner in your hummer without looking or slowing down, it's the pedestrian who's the asshole?
He's an asshole for sauntering out into a street full of busy traffic, assuming and demanding that every car will come to a stop just for him... instead of waiting until the cars have passed.
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