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21st June 2019, 12:12 | #1 |
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22nd June 2019, 08:03 | #2 |
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Good Great Wonderful and a Thousand Thanks for stating the Bleedin' obvious
The obsession with electric is depressing. What are the likes of us lads going to do on a saturday - read the meter? Fit a prerecorded noise to warn pedestrians of an oncoming silent killer? The internal combustion engine is not perfect but it's a machine, you know engineering, grease, oil, water, fire, sound, something that feels right. Not a milk float. Milk floats were to keep quiet in the early morning so as not to waken us up when the daily protein was arriving. Now have a nice day and get down and dirty . |
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Joking aside, as a Guide Dog puppy walker this is a HUGE issue for blind & partially sighted people who are, say, simply trying to cross the road. Imagine you have no sight. Currently (no pun intended ) you can "hear" the traffic. What do you do if you can't hear anything? Just step out and hope for the best? Hope you're one of the 5K who have a working Guide Dog? (There's about 200K people registered blind). I wonder if we'll be able to choose a range of engine noises a bit like those Sat Nav voice options? Maybe a DFV, or a BTCC RX7 rotary (now I'm giving my age away ). Andy. Last edited by AndyN01; 23rd June 2019 at 08:45.. |
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23rd June 2019, 12:58 | #4 |
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EVs are fitted with external warning sound emitters when driving at low speeds for just this reason. In fact, I think that while it's not currently a legal requirement to have this, it will be from either next year or the year after.
PS the picture above is almost certainly fake. You need a specific type of generator to charge an EV like that - something to do with the sine wave, IIRC? Plus in any case, the car pictured is a BMW i3, which was likely to have its own internal petrol-powered generator known as a range-extender or REx, which in the event of running low on electricity charges the battery rather than driving the wheels.
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