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The Silence Of Electric Cars: Our National Nightmare Is Almost Over
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| 7 Jan 2013
| Tom Gara
Posted on 01/07/2013 3:48:43 PM PST by PilotDave
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Perhaps a playing card in the spokes? A big whistle taped to the bumper? So not only is the death rate higher in electric cars, but they cause more deaths to all around them as well. So loud pipes do save lives? I'd go for an x-wing fighter sound. Or maybe a DC 3, Just wow.
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posted on
01/07/2013 3:48:52 PM PST
by
PilotDave
To: PilotDave
If its electric sound - will drain battery faster ...
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posted on
01/07/2013 3:53:03 PM PST
by
Lmo56
(If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
To: Lmo56
An electric sound skulls being crushed under tiny little wheels?
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posted on
01/07/2013 3:56:22 PM PST
by
PilotDave
(No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
To: PilotDave
I have perfect sight and perfect vision, and I’m not unattentive, but I’ve nearly been killed by these things twice. Both times it was when an electric vehicle came around the corner of a building and I as a pedestrian was completely in the right. Not a fan.
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posted on
01/07/2013 3:56:32 PM PST
by
ottbmare
(The OTTB Mare)
To: PilotDave
My mother in law nearly ran me over in her danged electric thing. A vehicle should make some noise when it’s about to move.
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posted on
01/07/2013 3:56:32 PM PST
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: PilotDave
this is just part of the circus
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posted on
01/07/2013 3:57:18 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: MarineBrat
“MOTHER IN LAW”
You just opened yourself up. Popcorn please...
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posted on
01/07/2013 3:59:02 PM PST
by
PilotDave
(No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
To: PilotDave
Install a gas engine that accelerates in RPM as the electric motor gains speed... Problem solved...
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posted on
01/07/2013 4:00:10 PM PST
by
ejonesie22
(8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
To: PilotDave
So...I wonder how many people have actually been killed or injured by this supposed problem. Or are they just looking for something to regulate? I’ve never heard of carnage on the golf courses caused by quiet golf carts.
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posted on
01/07/2013 4:00:22 PM PST
by
Avid Coug
To: PilotDave
Install a gas engine that accelerates in RPM as the electric motor gains speed... Problem solved...
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posted on
01/07/2013 4:00:25 PM PST
by
ejonesie22
(8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
To: PilotDave
Perhaps a playing card in the spokes?A neighbor has a Prius. I suggested that to her when she crept up on me one day while I was at the mailbox. :)
( there's 3 on my street now)
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posted on
01/07/2013 4:01:07 PM PST
by
Vinnie
(A)
To: MarineBrat
Maybe your MIL hates you?
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posted on
01/07/2013 4:02:52 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
To: PilotDave
Brought to you happily by the folks at USGov.disorg.
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posted on
01/07/2013 4:03:00 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: ejonesie22
Just install some glass paks on them, simple.
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posted on
01/07/2013 4:03:08 PM PST
by
PilotDave
(No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
To: PilotDave
Capitalize on it and repackage “Jetsons” sound effects. Alternatively, the sounds could be a downloadable “ringtone” kind of thing. A user could select “Bugatti”, “North American P-51” (that would be my choice, LOL) or ‘73 Primer-grey Mercury Marquis or any of a dozen other car sound packages (CSPs) I am sure a James Brown voice would work pretty well as far as getting attention.
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posted on
01/07/2013 4:04:03 PM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
To: PilotDave
Please, dear Lord, save us from the nanny state!
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posted on
01/07/2013 4:05:08 PM PST
by
Monitor
("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it." - H. L. Mencken)
To: MarineBrat
Coincidence ?
I think not ! Better sleep with one eye open :)
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posted on
01/07/2013 4:05:50 PM PST
by
onona
(KCCO)
To: PilotDave
Just an idea -—
the Nazi’s put screaming sirens on the fixed wheel struts of Stuka dive bombers in order to intimidate those on the ground during the plane’s high speed dive.
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posted on
01/07/2013 4:06:06 PM PST
by
llevrok
(ObamaLand - Where young people go to retire.)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Perhaps the sound of a steam locomotive?
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posted on
01/07/2013 4:06:45 PM PST
by
PilotDave
(No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
To: All
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posted on
01/07/2013 4:07:26 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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