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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."
Aah the "I've got a bigger dick than you" argument. sorry, you lose. Pedestrians, that is to say, everybody on the planet, have more rights than assholes in cars. The slower, less manoeuvrable vehicle always has right of way. Or do you think you have the right to mow people down because you're late for a meeting ?
It IS your job to keep other people safe from your machine. If you bumped into them in person, no big deal - if you hit them with your car, it's YOUR CAR ! YOU are legally in control (supposedly). This is why I hate car drivers. They think they own the fucking planet.