The possibilities could be quite amusing and confusing. ;)
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
How will the highway patrolman hear you approaching his late night speedtrap?
This is becoming a nation of fake.
Those electric carts in the airports need a fake vroom too.
It really isn’t a crazy idea. I am sure the noise a Harley makes makes it safer. It has to be the same with cars.
Nooooo! I can just imagine hundreds of ice cream trucks driving by with their loud speakers blaring.
I’m thinking more of the rattle of a diesel motor.
My thinking the car was safely parked, along with the driver's not bothering to actually look behind him before he began backing out nearly turned ugly. BTW, if I hadn't been behind him, he would have backed out directly into a car driving through the parking lot.
I would settle for one of those "backing up" warning tones you hear on trucks so often.
Mark
I’d like mine to play the national anthem of the USSR. Will that be an option?
:0)
I’d put on “Ride of the Valkyries.”
“no noise car is a GOOD thing, ppl just need to get used to it”
I agree. I bought a Nissan Rogue earlier this year with a variable (continuous- I forgot the correct terminology) transmission that does not have a shifting feel when it goes to a higher gear. It took a couple of months to get used to it, but it doesn’t bother me now. I figure the noise issue would be roughly the same kind of effect. . . takes some getting used to, but eventually you do.
Sometimes it would be the Enterprise-to-warp-speed sound.
Other times it would be a low, wet, loud fart.
Othertimes a cool song.
Other times the sound of people making love.
HOW COOL IS THIS???!?!?
it all make sense now...that seems appropriate.
-—Gore-Backed Car Firm Gets Large U.S. Loan ——
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347678/posts
Plug-in hybrid maker Fisker Automotive gets $529 million from Obama administration
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fisker23-2009sep23,0,6092445.story
Greenies hate blind people!
Yes but..I am sure there will be a huge stereo system which plays rap music loud enough to break glass as it hums along.
LOL!
I love it! What a better way to make commentary on overbearing government intervention in the marketplace?
I want to sound like a top fuel dragster for acceleration then switch to steam locomotive at cruising speeds.
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