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Electric Car....

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Boggert:
Well there I was walking home in the dark from a parish council meeting. I have my bike jacket on and Hi vis jacket over it so I can be seen. I'm walking down a lane with no path and see a car parked on the the other side of the road, lights on indicating right but engine not running. I thought they were reading a map or something, so i carry on walking and this bloody thing nearly runs me over! while pulling into a drive way.

yep you guessed it, it was a Toyota Prius running electric. If I could have heard the engine I would have waited to see what they are going to do. But with no noise  I Thought it was stopped. The drive was nice and friendly and apologised for some reason he hadn't seen me :roll: god knows how! but hey it happens.

It got me thinking how much we relay on vehicle noise for road safety....

auf_wiedersehen_pet:
Reminded me of the old bike stickers...

Loud pipes save lives!

 :lol:

carbore:
Its a very interesting point, I reckon that the city of the future will be a deafening racket of beeping electric cars, like wagons that have beepers on reverse.

blackbob:
if a prius runs out of petrol how far can it go on electric ?

muddyjames:
at work I am crossing roads all day and the amount of times I just listen for engine noise is a fair amount of the time.

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