do they have a website that plays the sound? :)
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote:
Toyota announced that the Prius will now include a gadget to make some
noise at low speed to alert pedestrians to the presence of the car. The
gadget makes a noise
I wrote:
The gadget makes a noise unlike a motor more futuristic, apparently.
I guess it means the sound is unlike the internal combustion engine,
and more like the electric motor. That is annoying whine like a giant
mosquito. I guess it is better than playing a cell-phone ring tone or
Pop
They should use Turkey in the Straw so you can grab the kid's ice
cream money and split (banana).
T
In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:53:40 -0400:
Hi,
[snip]
I have been dreading this. Just when there was a chance that some of the noise
pollution in cities would be abated by the introduction of electric cars, some
bloody idiot decides to make them noisy.
Toyota
Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
I have been dreading this. Just when there was a chance that some of the
noise
pollution in cities would be abated by the introduction of electric cars,
some
bloody idiot decides to make them noisy.
Calm down. It isn't so bad. Nobody hates noise and light
Okay, how about It's a Small World?
(I can feel those who have been to Disney throwing visual daggers for
re-infecting their brain.)
And for those who have not been so fortunate, imagine a city of
electric vehicles playing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxvlKp-76io
the song which infects
When riding a bicycle on a path shared by pedestrians, it is usually
considered good form to alert the walker with on your right, on your
left or equivalent, which is a bit saner than indiscriminant noise, which
presumably needs to be much louder in order to achieve the proper attention
level.
Jed Sez:
Calm down. It isn't so bad. Nobody hates noise and light pollution
more than me, but I can see the wisdom of this. It is a necessary
trade-off.
Sometimes a beautiful technology has to be compromised for practical
reasons.
...
Leave it to the Japanese to be sensitive about these
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