When I had taken receipt of my S-10 Blazer EV from the conversion
company (Solar Electric, now defunct) back in 1992, they had tricked it
out with all the bells and whistles of the day to give me my money's
worth. One of those was to replace one of the rear white back up
incandescent lamps with one that also had beep circuitry.
Even back then, everyone who did not know anything about EVs was finding
things that needed to be done because they spewed that EVs were
inherently dangerous.
I and everyone within ear shot thought this vehicle (which they did not
know was Electric) was weird because it was the only one making that
sound (unlike today, city, county, or state vehicles did not require
this backup warning signal. So, the sound was quite new and thought
odd-ball).
I found it too annoying, and detracting from my EV-cause efforts of
trying to convey that my EV was a normal commute vehicle, and the public
should also consider also driving Electric. I replaced that bulb with a
standard one, and all was good again. The rear backup lights were quite
bright, and I could always honk my horn.
...
If I had a Production EV today, I would most likely become an outlaw by
disabling that EV noise-maker: unfair, unenforced laws, create outlaw
drivers (no one is going to routinely check that the noise-maker is
working after the EV has been purchased, and I would disable it in a way
that it could be re-enabled if I were to sell the EV).
{brucedp.150m.com}
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On Thu, Jul 4, 2013, at 07:13 PM, Dave Davidson wrote:
> My brother got a brand new Prius, and the first thing I noticed is a
> quite
> loud backup alarm. I like that I can turn the noise off on my 2011 Leaf.
> Nissan should have kept that option.
>
> Dave
> On Jul 3, 2013 7:20 AM, "Paul Wujek" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Yes, there's no need to limit this kind of law to only one kind of vehicle.
> >
> > On 13-07-02 08:31 PM, Bill Dube wrote:
> >> Simply extent the law to encompass _all_ cars [...]
> >> Require that _all_ cars have a minimum dB level, including the many
> >> nearly silent luxury cars.
> >>
> >> There are plenty of nearly silent ICE luxury cars. It will kill the
> >> legislation if you extend it to those nearly silent luxury models.
> >> I can hear the howls of protest (many dBs) that will erupt when you put
> >> the stupid noisemakers on the high-end Benz, Caddy's, etc.
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