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Re: Electric race cars that look like Formula 1, but are eerily quiet

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Post by ericcumbee » Tue, Apr 12, 2016, 3:33 AM UTC

usrusr wrote: post #41

k-mcgrady wrote: post #18

Quiet is not a great selling point. One of the big complaints in F1 right now is that the current spec engines are too quiet. The noise contributes hugely to the atmosphere and sense of speed.

Great selling point, except when you happen to live within earshot of a racetrack. Which is literally a radius of miles, easily enough to house half a million when you put the track in a densely populated area (which is increasingly rare, but still exists).

except most of those are 1 weekend a year (Temp Street Courses). the only exception I can think of for that is Imola.

Re: Electric race cars that look like Formula 1, but are eerily quiet

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Post by Symbiote » Tue, Apr 12, 2016, 6:40 AM UTC

mikeash wrote: post #28

Symbiote wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have that the wrong way around. The car driver should be looking before proceeding, and should be driving slow enough to stop before any pedestrian. Yes, that may mean driving through a residential area at 15 km/h. (Or even 10km/h: [1]) [1] https://collegegreensharedspace.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/...

You both have it wrong. Both cars and pedestrians must remain alert and look carefully for the other. Anything less than that gets people killed unnecessarily. Trying to pin it on one or the other is just arguing over who should pay for the headstone.

Children can't look as well as adults can, and adults make mistakes.

The responsibility lies with the one vastly increasing the danger.

Re: Electric race cars that look like Formula 1, but are eerily quiet

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Post by mikeash » Tue, Apr 12, 2016, 2:01 PM UTC

Symbiote wrote: post #62

mikeash wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You both have it wrong. Both cars and pedestrians must remain alert and look carefully for the other. Anything less than that gets people killed unnecessarily. Trying to pin it on one or the other is just arguing over who should pay for the headstone.

Children can't look as well as adults can, and adults make mistakes. The responsibility lies with the one vastly increasing the danger.

I'm not talking about responsibility, I'm talking about what people need to do in order to increase the odds that everybody involved can die in bed. Responsibility is just the question of who pays for the funeral.