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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."
They should make some kind of noise that sounds significantly different when its coming towards you compared with going away from you, just like how an ambulance or police siren is.
I will change it to a ominous hum.
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
...one of the nice things about electric cars is that they're so quiet. Can you turn the sound off?
By then we will not download ringtones anymore, but cartones. Think of the possibilities! Make your Focus sound like a Ferrari, make it swing like Michael Jackson. Living next to the highway will be very entertaining.
I mean, seriously, a "whooshing" sound would be more credible. A soundtrack is too garish.
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Just put a card in the spokes. Yea, it's nerdy, but so is the car.
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I would want that sound that the USS Enterprise makes as it whizzes through space...
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
I want my car to sound like the flying cars from The Jetsons. Then I can at least pretend that I got the future I was promised as a child.
In response, Mazda has announced that their cars will play an endless loop of a 6 year old saying "zoom-zoom!"
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Yay! Pretty soon we'll be able to buy ringtones for our cars! Now kids won't have to go deaf turning their music up loud enough that everyone around can hear it. The Hip-hop ring tones will play on an outside speaker! Hooray.
Sean
Great...
What's next? A ringtone for your car?
Get your ass to Mars.
Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
Tie Fighter anyone?
Living next to the highway will be very entertaining.
Someone at RIAA just had a great idea.
Next we'll have the kiddie ring tones and the nerdy Phytonesque "Run Away!!! Run Away!!!".
Greatâ¦
Please not ringtone cars. Please please please. It's ten years into the future and I can't stand it already.
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No, This is what The Spinners sound like. However my car will sound like this.
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I want mine to make the sound of a Bell HU-1 ...with optional Wagner overlay.
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they need a smell, to reflect their new potential. The smell should be 'silent but deadly'
Now I want the Windows 95 TADA noise when my airbags are deployed. I love for my cars to have a sense of sarcasm.
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More like an erection.
'ringtones' for cars ? Oh, the horror...
Can't they just make it illegal to operate an electric car between 1 mph and 12 mph?
Does it mean I'll get more Arabic music for free under my window in Frankfurt?
...why a fart noise when you could play the Brown Noise?
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Speaking of whooshes...
I love this. Sure, it's gonna be annoying, but as long as folks that buy Harley's can replace the proper muffler with something chrome and flatulent, I don't see why the rest of us can't have the sounds we want.
How about a Ferrari sound for yer hybrid?
This is gonna get totally out of hand. I can't wait for the mayhem!
I want it to make the barney rubble "Flintstones" bongo running noise and vary with ground speed.
random cartoon noises other selectable ones could be fun like the fake orgasm from that meg Ryan restaurant
scene wear Rob Rayner's mom says I'll have what shes having. i just remember the scene not the movie.
Am I the only person who would, without hesitation, load up a TIE Fighter sample?
The Crazy Frog ringtone.
That will sure scare the pedestrians away!
My friend owns a Prius, and if it's moving at a fairly low speed you won't hear it at all.
All you hear are the horrifying screams of the pedestrians being mowed down at 3 mph.
I'll just have it emit whatever's playing on my stereo.
If I'm not playing anything, well then the choices are endless aren't they?
Tie fighter? Popcorn popping? Porn sounds? Crying baby? Lightsaber hum? Maniacal laughter?
Hell, I could have a different sound every day!
Come play free flash games on Kongregate!
They smell like flying cars, they sound like flying cars, they look like flying cars, they probably even taste like flying cars, but they CANNOT give us a . . .damned . . . FLYING . . . CAR !?
Table-ized A.I.
Mine will chant "kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit"
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
...every civic I see around here has an aftermarket fartcan installed, along with some graphic of an anime ninja guy with a katana, and a set of ailerons off of an old MIG.
(Where's Philip K Dickhead chiming in when you need him?! [http://slashdot.org/~Philip+K+Dickhead/])
When we had Dick, we had a genius. Unfortunately, there's no more Dick around now, but at least we have some amazing memories. True, we sometimes saw some amazing characters, and then there was little performance on the Dick plotlines; other times, we had an amazing buildup by Dick, but no real delivery at the climax.
All of his books are worth reading, even when Dick coming through just didn't happen as hoped. Some adaptations have come close, but no film of the work of Dick has ever really got me as excited as I'd hoped. ... dammit, get your minds out of the gutter! We lost a very amazing and insightful writer when Dick was withdrawn from us. There is a moving, metal likeness [see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#Death%5D, but we still do not have a real Dick, unfortunately.
I'm going to Hell for this post. Oh well, maybe I'll encounter the amazing Dick on my way through Death's door...
Presumably their normal work is making cars *quieter*, since that's what normal people want. (At least, making the interiors quieter.) I'm guessing none of them were hired with the job description: "make car noisier."
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Oh gawd, I can just hear the 16yr olds with their "Crazy Frog" sounding cars now.....arggh
I'll just have it emit whatever's playing on my stereo.
ASCAP or another major performance rights organization would bust a CAP in your AS for that. The music on your stereo probably isn't licensed for an intentional public performance.
I want the Jaws theme music.
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Actually, he's saving oxygen, the oxygen consumed by his lungs during a ride is vastly less than the oxygen consumed by an internal combustion engine over the same distance. It also does not produce carbon monoxide or any of the other toxic gasses that engines do.
Before you retort that TFA is about electric cars, please tell us all if *you* drive an electric car.
I hate printers.
If the car itself makes an annoying noise, can anyone image how awful the car alarm is gonna be?
Don't read Darwin's Evolution of Species; PARTICIPATE go to Walmart in a Prius!
As someone who lives in Nepal, and drives a motorbike in India, the things drivers shed to pedestrians is not wanted. Like the habit of backing up and running you over again if hit, to avoid paying the family of the squashed pedestrian any compensation. Please tell drivers in the Bihar that this is not acceptable, and the practice should be stopped immediately.
As far as ringtones for my next electric vehicle (my first was a Chinese motorbike), I will install the Tata Truck ringtone , which sounds like any other on the road. It's the one noise that instills fear in all creatures near the highway. Sounding like a cylon raider will do nothing to keep peds safe here.
I think therefore I can't be ~TTNH
I want Bill Cosby's gocart sounds.
"I've... driven things you people wouldn't believe. Set Priuses on fire off the corner of Orion Street. I watched Smart cars sputter in the dark near the Tenhauser Tunnel. All those... models will be lost in time, like... tears in the rain."
Then they really shouldn't be driving at all...
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Blind people shouldn't be crossing the road... They should be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they might possess which can be extracted for our personal use.