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T Hugger

Wed Mar 20 2013 16:31:58 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Nissan, Mitsubishi tell NHTSA requiring electric vehicles to make noise will turn buyers away

Jeff Regal

Wed Mar 20 2013 16:50:08 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Not to sound insensitive, but this is just another example of the nanny state government stepping in when it shouldn't. Requiring all vehicles to be noisy to reduce risk to blind pedestrians just seems unneccessary. Even without a noisy engine, any car is going to make some road noise so I feel like if blind people can avoid bikes and other objects,, they'll be able to hear cars coming too. Maybe we should ban black cars too since they're too hard to see at night

The Stig

Thu Mar 21 2013 16:24:11 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

It's not as bad as BMW recently doing this through the internal speakers in the new M5's

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