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Hybrid Cars May Include Fake Vroom for Safety
NY SLimes ^
| 10-13-09
| JIM MOTAVALLI
Posted on 10/14/2009 1:56:46 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
For decades, automakers have been on a quest to make cars quieter: an auto that purrs, and glides almost silently in traffic. They have finally succeeded. Plug-in hybrid and electric cars, it turns out, not only reduce air pollution, they cut noise pollution as well with their whisper-quiet motors. But that has created a different problem. They aren’t noisy enough.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ecofreaks; fake; hybrid; vroom
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I'd like to have it play that little tune that played when Mister Roger's Trolly was moving or that sound from the Jetson's little spaceship car.
that would be cute enough make algore's polar bears cry.
(so what ever happened to car horns?)
To: WOBBLY BOB
they always know when my Road King is alongside.
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posted on
10/14/2009 1:57:55 PM PDT
by
rahbert
To: WOBBLY BOB
I want mine to sound like the Flintstone’s footsteps.
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posted on
10/14/2009 1:58:26 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: rahbert
They’ve been mowing down Blind people.
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posted on
10/14/2009 1:58:33 PM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: rahbert
no noise car is a GOOD thing, ppl just need to get used to it
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posted on
10/14/2009 1:59:05 PM PDT
by
4rcane
To: massgopguy
we’ll just have to come up with a technology to replace their eyes, so they could see again
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posted on
10/14/2009 1:59:52 PM PDT
by
4rcane
To: massgopguy
we’ll just have to come up with a technology to replace their eyes, so they could see again
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posted on
10/14/2009 1:59:52 PM PDT
by
4rcane
To: WOBBLY BOB
How about the sound of playing cards hitting bicycle spokes?
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:00:04 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: WOBBLY BOB
mebbe they could just put baseball cards in the spokes...
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:00:43 PM PDT
by
steveo
(Two Thousand Ten - Never Again)
To: WOBBLY BOB; Slings and Arrows
It will play “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...” in faster playback as you accelerate.
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:01:03 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: WOBBLY BOB
What about some playing cards and clothes line clips clacking on the spokes of the wheels? Clack clack clack...... Loved it on the bike when I was a kid.
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:01:25 PM PDT
by
Bud Krieger
(Another President, another idiot....)
To: WOBBLY BOB
Imagine an Aptera with the Jetsons car sound:
To: WOBBLY BOB
Egads! I shall whip ye in my pennyfarthing!
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:01:37 PM PDT
by
allmost
To: WOBBLY BOB; Slings and Arrows
except in Minnesota where it will play:
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:01:46 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: WOBBLY BOB
Whats wrong with the bicycle noise maker.
http://www.cyclelicio.us/2006/06/bicycle-noisemaker.html
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:02:15 PM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
To: WOBBLY BOB
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:02:35 PM PDT
by
RckyRaCoCo
(That smell of death...be seeing ya big casino)
To: Huskrrrr
How about the sound of playing cards hitting bicycle spokes? You want to break the biodegradable wheels?
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:02:35 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
To: Huskrrrr
LOL, I wrote that and then say you beat me to it.
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:02:59 PM PDT
by
org.whodat
(Vote: Chuck De Vore in 2012.)
To: 4rcane
I agree. We have a Prius, and that is one of the things I like about it. When our kids were little, he could pull into our driveway at night, and not wake them up.
I wish all cars were as quiet.
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
10/14/2009 2:03:23 PM PDT
by
stayathomemom
(Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
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