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This sneaked up on me today, not a sound, looked around and there it was, not only electric which don't make noise.
Cars with no noise.
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The police 'noddy' bikes (Velocette LE) were well known for sneaking up on you, let down by the radio's loudspeaker blasting out. You could hear their approach from miles away, if their HQ spoke on the radio.
They are reputed to have got the name 'Noddy', because it was dangerous for them to salute when on the bike, so they were allowed to do a nod instead. I don't know whether the police started the nod, but bikers still nod acknowledgements to this day.
They are reputed to have got the name 'Noddy', because it was dangerous for them to salute when on the bike, so they were allowed to do a nod instead. I don't know whether the police started the nod, but bikers still nod acknowledgements to this day.
Remarkably quiet!
The driving starts from around 3:35.
The whistle/horn is quite loud though!
The driving starts from around 3:35.
The whistle/horn is quite loud though!
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Cars with no noise are extremely dangerous and should be illegal. I once nearly killed someone because she couldn't hear me and stepped out into the road. Once, I nearly got killed as I was thinking of stepping out of a very narrow pavement at the entrance of a public car park. Right that moment a car went past me. Life and death was literally milliseconds apart. In both instances the cars were petrol bmw's.
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They should make all electric cars have lolly stick clacker on their wheels!
This motorcyclist has the right idea.
This motorcyclist has the right idea.
New leccy vehicles do now have to make some sort of noise, as a legal requirement. At least at low speeds. Certainly, I think the noise regulations are now too onerous. One of the biggest problems the regulators had, was prescribing a noise level that was sufficiently audible to act as a warning, but which didn't result in a noise level that would fail the noise test, had the vehicle been ICE-equipped. Riding my pushbike round Cumbria's rural lanes, I usually wish cars would make more noise than they currently do!They should make all electric cars have lolly stick clacker on their wheels!
This motorcyclist has the right idea.
There's a lot to be said for looking right and left before crossing a road.
You don't have to say a lot, but just say a little about areas were pedestrians and cars converge, especially when both flow in the same direction.
I think someone invented a car horn
You can tell they don't know you are coming at them, how?
Again in English please
You can tell that they don't know you are coming at them? How? Or, is your intention to use the horn at everyone and anyone?
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The hybrid Jazz we now have plays 'Muzak' when on pure electric power unto about 20 mph. Unfortunately it does seem to be not quite loud enough.
The ICE engine is quiet and but the Muzak is at a lower noise level.
That's the problem. The regulators have boxed themselves into a corner!
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I do a lot of cycling and know a lot of cyclists, and I have never heard anyone come up with that nonsense before.
EVs, are indistinguishable from ICE vehicles until they are passing. Tyre noise is the first sound you hear when a vehicle is coming from behind.
They really need to stop clowns fitting extra loud exhaust systems, remove the driving licence from anyone who alters their cars to purposefully backfire on the over-run, and also ban very low profile tyres (as they are also excessively noisy)
Cars need to start being a hell of a lot less anti social. CO2 causing global warming, all manner of toxins that are destroying our health, the inability of people being able to drive them properly causing astonishing death and serious injury, globally 1.35 million deaths per year, 50 million seriously injured (50% are pedestrians or cyclists). This utterly ludicrous form of transport needs to end.
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