Wait a minute ... do the new electric cars not have horns?
Perhaps the real reason some people hate hybrids is their silence. They can’t gun the engines to impress themselves and annoy their neighbors.
In the Chicago Loop for a while they had bus-only lanes that went opposite the one-way traffic (buses in this lane went one way, all other traffic in the other lanes went the opposite direction). They took them out - people were getting killed because they were used to one-way traffic and kept forgetting to look for the buses going the other way.