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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.
...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.
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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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I want mine to make the sound of a Bell HU-1 ...with optional Wagner overlay.
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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.
Speaking of whooshes...
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.
Mine will chant "kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit"
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
Then they really shouldn't be driving at all...
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