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Electric Cars May Be Made Noisier By Law
msgtomatt writes "The Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act would require electric cars and hybrids to make noise, and would fund the Department of Transportation to create a set of rules for automakers, who would be allowed some leeway in how they carry out the guidelines." Downloadable and do-it-yourself car-tones are the future: my own snoring could keep deer and toddlers off the road.
I want a recording of an eight year old making car revving noises.
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Even better: how about 'It should apply to all OBJECTS'. Every single object, mobile or immobile should emit a different tone constantly.
That's why futuristic cities are built out of glass: the whole mass is one great big set of chimes.
Two halves of a coconut being clopped together.
So here we are on the verge of winning the war against noise pollution, and those motherfuckers WANT cars to be noisy?
Unless electric cars don't have horns, or don't have car alarms, we're nowhere close.
Speaking of, I would be in favor of legislation banning car alarms. A few cities have tossed around that idea before, but got shot down by the car alarm industry, if it were to gain traction at a national level, I'm guessing certain radio personalities and certain cable news networks would cast it as "Government bails out car thieves."
I'd also favor regulating horns. I think fining people $5 every time they honk within city limits would be justified, but I'd settle for limiting cabbies to three honks a month.
Loud pipes save lives.
Care to tell me what a blind person is doing alone in a parking lot? Looking for his car?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.