Electric Cars are Dangerous

Cars are far too noisy. The quieter the better in my opinion. Most of them are fitted with an audible warning device, aka a horn if you need to alert anyone to your approach.

 

My horn only alerts people at short range

 

Well, if you go around admitting you have a Jazz what do you expect.
Self Inflicted Injury .................. no sympathy.

 

Ditto - looking seriously at ID3 for our "family" car that only does local journeys.

I'd love ID Buzz in a few years time when that comes out. It's awesome. Slammed on fuchs obviously..

 

Yep I like the buzz too

 

I like driving my van, it makes lots of noise, but seems a lot of 'drivers' can't hear or see me coming and choose to pull out of side roads just in front of me, little old lady with head peering over the dash did that to me yesterday, came out from the right and within yards turned off to the left. Good my brakes work well or her car would have been toast.

Old people with electric cars, deadly combination. As an oap myself I get my eyes and hearing tested annually so I can keep driving safely.

 

I too had a close call recently with a Nissan Leaf in a car park. Although fitted with a horn, the driver was unaware that the car was silent to pedestrians and did not use it.

 

They should be fitted with a type of alarm like the one in phoenix night perfect!

Sorry I don’t know how yo load it up if anyone would be so kind I would be great full as it could save a life.


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I never cease to be amazed by the number of people on campsites don't hear the bus coming up behind them!

 

How on earth did people manage when THESE were on the road?

 

I remember those in Newcastle. Fantastic machines. Don't understand why they got rid of them.

 

All new electric vehicles have to be fitted with a noise generator. Just got back from a course on the new Merc EQC, the noise generator sounds like a badly tuned radio. Why they didn’t reproduce a nice V8 sounds who knows, but any noise is better than none at alerting people.

 

All Vauxhall Corsas are already fitted with a noise generator that goes "Booomcha, boomcha, boomcha"...

 

And the sound of vertebrae crushing as they drive over speed bumps with their lowered suspension

 

E.arly bays come with that feature as well I believe

 

Apparently, they weren't 'flexible' enough and the infrastructure was considered too expensive to maintain.

Still have them in lots of European cities though!

 

Nobody had cars. So the roads had buses lorries taxis and delivery vans. With space between them.

 

A friend of mine has an electric golf. He took me for a spin. I was impressed... really nippy. First thing he said though was you have to be so careful. Folk step out in front of you all the time. And with that someone did!

 

because people actually looked where they were going instead of staring at a phone screen