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Trump warned automakers not to raise prices after his tariffs and be happy how ‘great’ they are
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Don't worry guys, he "saved them" by eliminating subsidies for EVs. That fad is clearly going away, and by gutting the American auto industry's ability to grow their EV market share, we'll clearly be poised for global dominance. Obviously the rest of the world LOVES smog and HATES silent/emissions free vehicles and will FLOCK to ICE cars that are priced the same as Chinese EVs.
The silent part is a bit of an issue though. For safety reasons.
Trivially solvable with regulation
Trivially solvable by looking, unless we are going to regulate millions of vehicles and add to noise pollution for the hypothetical sake of a few visually-impaired people.
idk about you but i greatly value the opportunity to track nearby vehicles that are outside my field of vision without having to turn around constantly or wear one of those hats with rearview mirrors
Just need to find good solutions.
Literally just require a noisemaker
Are you going to force bicycle riders to also put playing cards in their spokes so we can hear them too? Will pedestrians be forced to sing while in public? Or will people instead learn to actually look? Anyway, even a silent car emits lots of tyre noise, and every EV I've run across also makes some sci-fi-like noise whenever the motor is running.
I ring my bell when I pass people that won't see me on my e-bike.
if I wanted to be a complete fucking jackass, I'd just pass them at 30 km per hour without making a sound.
I'm sure they would love that.
It's the responsibility of the vehicle user to make sure that people know of them.
Noise is extremely useful as it's a 360 radius.
It's annoying, but useful.
Unless you can come up with other solutions to make pedestrians aware of vehicles. Beyond just looking. It's extremely easy for a pedestrian to put their foot on the road before looking sideways just because he heard nothing.
From outside the main thing you hear from a car is the noise it makes through rolling. You still hear that with EV. The silent part is when you're sitting inside since good cars are dampening the roll (and wind) noise
It's an issue at low speeds where tyre noise is nowhere as loud. Also in a city it's fighting against the other ambient noises that are quite loud.
That's why they're emitting sounds at such low speeds (at least in the EU, no idea how they're regulated elsewhere)