Nissan Adds ‘Beautiful’ Noise to Make Silent Electric Cars Safe
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Nissan Adds ‘Beautiful’ Noise to Make Silent Electric Cars Safe
October 8, 2009 – 4:37 pm | No Comment

With little noise from the engine, electric cars may be a danger to blind pedestrians who cannot hear them approaching. To address those safety concerns, transportation agencies in the U.S. and Japan may mandate artificial sounds for the vehicles. The authors check in with Nissan engineer Toshiyuki Tabata, who is working on recreating engine noise for a new generation of quiet cars.

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Nissan Adds ‘Beautiful’ Noise to Make Silent Electric Cars Safe

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dataBy Makiko Kitamura and Yuki Hagiwara
Bloomberg.com
September 18, 2009

With little noise from the engine, electric cars may be a danger to blind pedestrians who cannot hear them approaching. To address those safety concerns, transportation agencies in the U.S. and Japan may mandate artificial sounds for the vehicles.  The authors check in with Nissan engineer Toshiyuki Tabata, who is working on recreating engine noise for a new generation of quiet cars.

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