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Nissan Gives Electric Cars Blade Runner Audio Effect

Posted by timothy on from the downloadable-cartones-just-$10-each dept.

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."

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  1. Wow by MadUndergrad · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So they killed the electric car. Or rather, they will, if they're as dumb as they seem.

  2. Re:But... by drik00 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There's two big problems with this though... first, the majority of the sound that comes from a moving car is from the tires (I didn't believe it at first, but roll you window down and listen some time), so this whole point seems moot. Second, do we really want the sound of thousands of Jetsons' cars on a crowded 5pm traffic jam? Expect road rage incidents to go through the roof.

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