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For a pedestrian hit by a car, legal liability is often not the main concern.
Though in some countries, hitting a pedestrian gets the driver an automatic jail term. Collisions with pedestrians don't happen all that often in such countries.
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With a sane legal framework surrounding driving, the driver would need to be sure they were not going to hit you, rather than you needing to be sure you wouldn't be hit.
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"I am the captain of battleship USS Awesomename! I demand you change your course!"
"I am the keeper of a lighthouse. Your call."
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As long as there is an option to turn all of it off, I don't have a single problem with it. It actually sounds quite cool.
My first thought to this article was where's the speaker so i can desolder it. I don't mind the gimmicks and trickery some people like the deception however I want to be able to get rid of it. However if it plays in the regular speaker system and there's no off button it will get annoying very quickly.
Craziness.
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They contribute to being heard by walkers and cyclist relying on their ears to know whether a car is coming, which is the legal point of adding these things (and why they can be disabled at high speed)
I am a former Los Angeles bike commuter, and a current walking-commuter (can't think of an elegant word for that). I very much appreciate knowing when a car is coming, but the constant roar on the every street means that conversations have to stop when a truck drives by, you can't hear people talking even when they're only 6 or 7 feet from you, and any sound quieter than an internal combustion engine is diminished. I…
When I bought my now 11-year-old Lexus, I was amazed by two aspects: how sporty and well controlled it was [for a luxury car], and how silent it was. It was literally more quiet than a Prius and it had an inline six.
And I hated it.
After a few months of hitting the gas and hearing nothing, I opened up the hood and ripped the tiny ram-air front inlet off the air intake. I also took apart the air box and gutted the parts that didn't affect the air filter. The result was a tiny but definitely noticeable engine roar when high-revving. It finally sounded about as mean as a Toyota Corolla.
They can pry my engine noise from my cold, dead, ricer hands.
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They contribute to being heard by walkers and cyclist relying on their ears to know whether a car is coming, which is the legal point of adding these things (and why they can be disabled at high speed)
I am a former Los Angeles bike commuter, and a current walking-commuter (can't think of an elegant word for that). I very much appreciate knowing when a car is coming, but the constant roar on the every street means that conversations have to stop when a truck drives by, you can't hear people talking even when they're only 6 or 7 feet from you, and any sound quieter than an internal combustion engine is diminished. I…
There's one situation where drivers don't face penalties if they hit and injure/kill a pedestrian: if that pedestrian caused the accident and the driver had no way of preventing it.
For example, if a pedestrian assumes there is no traffic and steps into the road without looking, just feet from an oncoming-but-silent car.
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Jings. In what world does anything being fun become 'literally pornography'...
It's becoming annoyingly common ("earth porn" for pictures of nature, etc). Your use of "Jings" however has brightened up my day. Crivvens!
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F1 cars... are loud as fuck. Formula one's new V6 engines are so quiet that they caused a lot of controversy when first introduced: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2014/06/17/f1-spectators-say-new-...
Oh really? That's hilarious. The only race I've been to was in the early 2000's so it was a different engine back then.
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I am a former Los Angeles bike commuter, and a current walking-commuter (can't think of an elegant word for that). I very much appreciate knowing when a car is coming, but the constant roar on the every street means that conversations have to stop when a truck drives by, you can't hear people talking even when they're only 6 or 7 feet from you, and any sound quieter than an internal combustion engine is diminished. I…
Vehicular homicide is already a thing bro.
My initial thought was: I wouldn't want any 'fake' noise, potentially hiding information in the (softer) real noise. But what if the noise is dynamically synthesized based on lots of info from the vehicle – perhaps not just its real noise/RPMs, but other qualities usually not usually sensed. Temperature and vibrations across multiple sampling-locations? Computed fuel-economy? Others? Maybe it's a good aural channel f…