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you really think a hybrid engine could handle woofers?
HAHAHAHAHAHA]]>Jul 3rd 2009 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/]]>Jul 3rd 2009 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/
Total no brainer.]]>Jul 3rd 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Sign me up for one!]]>Jul 3rd 2009 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/:-D]]>Jul 3rd 2009 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 8:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/"What, so you've never stepped out blindly because it was quiet?"

It's the driver's responsibility to look out for pedestrians stepping out onto the street and the pedestrian's responsibility to look before crossing (just like we were taught as little kids).

And again, there hasn't been widely reported incidents of people being killed by hybrids because they are silent. I bet if anyone bothered to come up with statistics there's virtually no-one affected by this supposedly issue. And, above certain speeds, the tire noise dominates. And there are luxury cars that are just as silent as hybrids when cruising. In my opinion they are making a big deal out of nothing.
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The majority of the sound preceeding a vehicle comes form the tires, not the engine - just listen carefully the next time a 4 cylinder car rolls past you.

And as for the argumentation hat sound is needed to increase pedestrian safety, whast a load of hogwash. What is needed is that a) Drivers pay attention when they are behind the wheel (stop texting and calling, whilst shaving/putting on your make-up and rolling a cigarette), and b) that Pedestrians behave in a predictable fashion (e.g. cross at the damn crossing and only when the DAMN LIGHT IS GREEN).]]>Jul 3rd 2009 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 8:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/
Only at really slow speeds would it need to make a sound.]]>Jul 3rd 2009 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/
Anyone who gets run over by an electric car because they decided to walk into the road without looking deserves it. Keeping these cars silent will act as evolutionary means of weeding out the morons.]]>Jul 3rd 2009 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/
Its not about being good driver.

Its about you, looking both ways before crossing the road. ]]>Jul 3rd 2009 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 4th 2009 12:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/
Maybe they're the problem.....hmmmmm]]>Jul 3rd 2009 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/
PS i hate wireless internet, i typed up a lengthy comment just to have it drop out of me and i lost it all *sigh*.]]>Jul 3rd 2009 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/Jul 3rd 2009 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/
This has three advantages:
1. Safety: People - whatever their creed - instinctively know that this is a noise not to be near.

2. Ecological Responsibility: The mandatory sound will put people off driving, if they are constantly assaulted by the sound of their bowels deciding to call it a day. Therefore people will only drive when they have to. This, combined with more ecological cars will significantly cut vehicular pollution.

3. Social Inclusion: Imagine a sunny day in a quiet suburb. Your window is down, you stop at a traffic light beside a someone in another car. Suddenly you feel the need to fart. Previously had you done so, you would have faced social embarrassment, as either it would have been audible, or covering it would have been required you to rev the engine - inviting 'speed obsessed jerk' comments. With the same noise emanating from the car all the time, no such fears.

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Did you guys tried to pay attention on how much of the noises you hear all day come just from the cars passing by?]]>Jul 3rd 2009 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/03/japan-considers-adding-noise-pollution-to-hybrids/]]>Jul 3rd 2009 10:23AM