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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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To: Anti-Bubba182

Loud pipes save lives.


41 posted on 10/14/2009 2:25:05 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I predict this will increase road rage dramatically. Can you imagine an intersection with 20 different cars with 20 different digital noises all at once?


42 posted on 10/14/2009 2:27:28 PM PDT by dinoparty
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To: WOBBLY BOB

This idea will get strictly regulated when the politicians realize that most good ole boys will have “Dixie” as their car sound.


43 posted on 10/14/2009 2:30:02 PM PDT by dinoparty
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To: Oratam

I think so.


44 posted on 10/14/2009 2:31:05 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: massgopguy
They’ve been mowing down Blind people.

I forgot, how many points were blind people?

45 posted on 10/14/2009 2:31:51 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dinoparty
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46 posted on 10/14/2009 2:44:00 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: dinoparty

In Chicago, it will have to play this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvxiG56M-eU


47 posted on 10/14/2009 2:47:14 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
May be a whole new market for "ringtones"....maybe "cartones"...you pick the sound effect of any type of truck, car, jet, and the type of muffler, i.e. glass packs, truck mufflers, NO muffler...whatever.

Or, you could load music on it too...Jesse Jackson's car would no doubt play "We Shall Overcome"; Nancy Pelosi's would be "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha", and obama's limo would play a book-on-tape reciting "Mein Kampf".


48 posted on 10/14/2009 2:49:04 PM PDT by FrankR (To Congress: You cram it down our throats in '09, We'll shove it up your ass in '10!)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Law of unintended consequences still has not been repealed.


49 posted on 10/14/2009 3:19:47 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: RatRipper

Not meaning to depress you, but given that you own a Renault, I mean Nissan Rogue with the CVT, you need to sign up on this forum so that you can stay ahead of the problem. I just got rid of a 2005 Nissan Murano that in the last year I owne dit suffered a Driver’s seat adjuster failure andauto door lock failure, which are very common to the Murano and Nissan Vehicles. I did not want to wait for the CVT to go out which seems to happen often between 90 and 110 thousand miles and costs $5500 to fix


50 posted on 10/14/2009 3:30:13 PM PDT by Wooly
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To: Wooly

I forgot the Nissan Forum Link
http://www.freshalloy.com/forums/
You need to go sign up and check in there on a regular basis, so that you stay up on what problems others are having.


51 posted on 10/14/2009 3:31:54 PM PDT by Wooly
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To: Mojave

>> Those electric carts in the airports need a fake vroom too. <<

I agree, because I was almost hit by one. Nothing to joke about.


52 posted on 10/14/2009 3:37:43 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: WOBBLY BOB

It doesn’t matter if I’m nearby with the pipes rumbling some real V8 300+ American music you won’t hear a wimpmoprius.


53 posted on 10/14/2009 3:39:50 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: All

I want the pod-racing sounds from Star Wars...not the Annakin one, the little four footed monster one. That’s awesome!


54 posted on 10/14/2009 4:04:05 PM PDT by SpitfyrAce
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Stop at the curb; look left, look right, look back to the left, then cross te street if no cars are coming.

Good advice in kindergarten; still good advice over 55 years later.


55 posted on 10/14/2009 5:39:17 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (God wants a Liberal or RINO hanging from every tree. Tar & feathers optional extras.)
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To: cripplecreek
I think the car should have a Yabba Dabba Doo horn.
56 posted on 10/14/2009 5:41:22 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Conservatives THINK people are smart. Liberals KNOW people are stupid.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

The horn should be a pterodactyl that squawks and shrugs and says “Its a living”.


57 posted on 10/14/2009 5:43:17 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: cripplecreek
I want mine to sound like the Flintstone’s footsteps.

LOL. Very fitting, considering that the hybrids are only a slight improvement over foot-powered cars.

58 posted on 10/14/2009 5:47:27 PM PDT by giotto
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I see a great opportunity for an enterprising person: Hybrid car noise machines that allow you to select any one of hundreds of noises at the push of a button. It could make driving in traffic a lot more interesting.


59 posted on 10/14/2009 5:51:08 PM PDT by giotto
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To: Proud2BeRight

..and some retard on a cell phone will STILL crash into you.


60 posted on 10/14/2009 7:33:04 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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