Comments on: Should the Volt have Speakers Inside and Outside to Simulate Engine Sound?

By: EVO

EVO — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:59:14 +0000

You mean like in this already in production electric vehicle?

http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=6096

By: R U Kidding

R U Kidding — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:14:29 +0000

On a quiet night go outside and listen to cars drive down your street.

By far the most noise comes from the tires. Very little comes from the engine or other drive components.

I realize that at very slow speeds, the tire noise nearly disappears, too, but at any speed above 10 mph, it is the best indicator for anyone, especially the blind.

By: Would-be Volt Buyer

Would-be Volt Buyer — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:54:09 +0000

I notice the original posting was April 1st…

In any case, it seems to me that a low-power radar/sonar/infrared unit could warn both the Volt driver and pedestrians in its path.

Objects with profiles resembling pedestrians or wheelchairs would cause a low tone to be emitted from the car. As the car approached, the tone would raise in frequency and/or volume.

By: Carol Vega

Carol Vega — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:20:24 +0000

I thought of this idea 2 years ago! When driving in a parking lot, people can’t hear me and they just keep walking in the middle. I don’t want to honk, it’s impolite. A polite quite horn is perfect, like a “quack quack,” or “clomp clomp” galloping horse noise, classical music, but not “oink oink” that’s rude . . . sounds that can be downloaded, and changed, like cell phone rings are – but with a volume limit.

By: Richard H

Richard H — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:59:35 +0000

This is by far the stupidest thing I have heard in a long time. Why the heck would we make fake engine noises on electric vehicles? Are you really that stupid?