Well I agree that until pedestrians don’t have the right of way _period_ we need to deal with this. The approach of having a noise emitted at low speed is really not a big deal, most of the time it’s inaudible inside the car. I think a turbine whine at low speed and maybe even a beep beep when the turn signal is on or the wheel is turned beyond a certain point would be just good. People do get distracted for lots of reasons; kids fighting is a good one, that having some ancillary noise would be useful. What we could do is lobby to ensure like backup beepers this is put into all cars, we all know that modern gas cars can be exceedingly quiet as well.
Lawrence > On Nov 15, 2016, at 08:37, Rush Dougherty via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Thos True via EV >> It is the pedestrian blinded by electronics technology that we need to >> concern >> ourselves with! > > I couldn't agree with you more, how many times do we hear of or see utube > videos > of somebody so engrossed in their phone conversation or playing their game or > looking at fb on their phone that they walk into fountains, enter > intersections, > fall into holes totally oblivious to what is in front of them. > > Not having a 'noise' that is like a 'car' is such BS in my opinion, it is > just a > way to force EV's into the gasser mentality. I was taught to look both ways > before > crossing, I used to live in NYC where I jaywalked all the time and never got > hit. > Is there a statistical analysis that shows who gets hit where? Or is all > this 'we > must have a sound' just anecdotal? Is there an actual study that says that > people > are likely to get run over by a car with no sound when they just cross > without > paying any attention to the roadway? Or is all just conjecture. > > Rush Dougherty > Tucson AZ 85719 > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 3579 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20161115/217ad999/attachment.bin> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
