Electric cars: silence is not golden

Kieran · Post by **Kieran** » 04 May 2010, 14:07

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/e ... 115259.ece

Great stuff, the roads of tomorrow sounding like you're on the set of Blade Runner

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 04 May 2010, 14:28

Hang, these Priuses make noise even when they're running on the batteries. There's quite a few around town here and I can hear them, though I admit they sound different to the usual infernal machines.

There is some mechanical noise and there's the tyre noise too - though that might say quite a bit about the state of the roads!

Here's me hoping for enforcement of existing legislation to take the wind out of the boy/girl racers' sails and others wanting yet more noise.

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 04 May 2010, 15:44

I Googled "ice cream van jingle" to find a suitable tune for an electric car but found loads of entries along these lines:- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... rules.html. So it seems that while cars must make an unpleasant noise the evocative sound of the ice cream van is to be banned.

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 04 May 2010, 17:44

I don't know whether to be relieved or disappointed. With eyesight like mine, EVs sans noise would be a serious life-limiting tech, yet somehow I'd rather take my chances, and have the P&Q!

gug · Post by **gug** » 19 May 2010, 12:27

Whats wrong with a couple of clothes pegs holding playing cards in the spokes ? - worked for me (in 1980-ish)

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 19 May 2010, 12:35

gug wrote:Whats wrong with a couple of clothes pegs holding playing cards in the spokes ? - worked for me (in 1980-ish)

Ace idea.

But what happens when you run out of deuce?

lancasterlad · Post by **lancasterlad** » 19 May 2010, 12:47

Get some joker to give you a push

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 19 May 2010, 12:49

LOL in spades.

You're a card, you are LL. Pack it in.

lancasterlad · Post by **lancasterlad** » 19 May 2010, 12:55

He's a diamond geezer!

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 19 May 2010, 13:03

Suit yourself.

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 19 May 2010, 14:14

gug wrote:Whats wrong with a couple of clothes pegs holding playing cards in the spokes ? - worked for me (in 1980-ish)

It worked for me in the sixties!

You pack should shuffle off and jack in your silliness, and not make such a big deal of it.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 19 May 2010, 14:38

This really is a bridge too far. Snap out of it!

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 19 May 2010, 15:57

The players will soon lose patience with playing this game

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 19 May 2010, 16:34

Whist, lad.

I have to hand it to you, you keep shuffling them in. Canasta stop it?

RenewableCandy · Post by **RenewableCandy** » 19 May 2010, 17:47

(as they say in German)