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I think about this a lot while I'm cycling through traffic and see or have a few near misses. I'm trying to be careful and sometimes I have near misses with pedestrians or other cyclists, and I'm glad not to drive a car, because this shit would terrify me. I don't understand how people can drive a car and not constantly be worried about killing or hurting someone. I don't understand how lots of motorists can be so cavalier while driving a multi ton motorized vehicle.
I drive a car and I am constantly worried that I will hurt a pedestrian, cyclist, or animal with it. My car is an older EV that doesn't make a noise outside the car when it is running, and it especially seems to startle deer and cyclists. Only thing I can do is give them more room.
Maybe bolt one of those whistling arrows to the outside of the car? Or some wind-powered noise maker more pleasant to listen to but still easily heard?
I might just see if I can adapt the noisemaker from a newer version of my car. Or install my own with my own set of sounds.
With a name like yours, there's only one option. You must make it one-to-one scale, stuka klaxon and mount it to your hood
This kills the efficiency
I'm not sure what you're driving, mine is exempt too, but I have a plug where it's supposed to go. I haven't owned it long enough to decide if I want that or not yet though.
I have a second-gen Leaf.
Did you disable the low-speed noise speaker or did yours not come with it? I was pretty sure they're mandatory on EVs because even first gen Leafs have them. And at speed you make more noise than an equivalently sized ICE vehicle anyway
I bought the car used and the only noises I hear from outside of it is the air conditoner, and a sort of quiet but apocalyptic-sounding backup chime. At low speeds moving forward it doesn't make a noise. Later models of my car (Leaf) have a sort of white noise generator that gives it a bit of a TIE-fighter sound. I think the noisemakers were added in 2020?
I think a lot of drivers actually are always anxious about hitting and hurting someone. To the point that when a story comes out about that happening, their primary concern is the emotional wellbeing of the driver.
Yeah I've been driving for... 12 years, 2 of those independently, and there's always that sense. That being said there's also periods where you get into a flow state and generally it's the idiots that are causing problems. Though there's been moments where it's come close.