Petrol and Disel vehicles tend to make huge Engine sound. That means you can use your ear to determine whether there is a vehicle coming from the distance where you may not see, especially during heavy fog or during crossing road inside a inner road.
Lets be honest here, 99.99% people only follow good practices when crossing road in a major highway. Most people dont even look behind when crossing in small roads away from the highway.
I was walking today and an electric scooter just speeded up and passed me by. If it were a petrol engine I would hear it coming even when I am not directly looking.
Lets be real, OP didnt look both ways and almost got hit by a scooter.
Sounds like he needs to revisit his don’t look both ways unless crossing a highway rule.
OP don’t visit any major city, Id worry for your safety as a pedestrian.
I guess it could matter if I were to drive with the windows down and not listen to the radio but…
Sounds like you want to cross roads without bothering to look first. Doesn’t matter what kind of vehicles are on the road, that’s not a good idea, for obvious reasons.
No, not even close. EV’s are required to make a fake noise which is sometimes louder than ICE. On top of that, over a certain speed all you hear is tire noise anyway.
EV’s are required to make a fake noise which is sometimes louder than ICE.
only for reversing. They don’t make a sound when moving forward at low speed.
My tinnitus warns me when they are near…
No. The synthetic sounds a lot of hybrids and evs have are actually louder than many idling engines, so if anything they would seem less likely to be involved in accidents… at least in low speed situations.
Yeah. Pretty funny because my neighbors joke that they can hear me coming and going more than most of the other cars
No
Why weren’t you walking on the sidewalk?
Scooters also the electric ones have to drive on the sidewalk or the road if they are above 125cc
Also electric vehicles in the EU have to emit an artificial sound when driving less than 30km/h
You can hear an EV even without the fake sounds. The tires moving on the pavement and the chassis moving through the air is quite audible, not silent.
100% of people who care about not being struck look both ways before crossing a road.
I’ve had 2 times on my bike in my neighborhood someone passing me slow 18ish I didn’t realize until they were in my peripheral, it was not a near hit or anything close but I would have heard a gas car a lot sooner and it just was something made me jump a bit and is etched into my memory. On the other side of things I’ve also had 2 or 3 times I’ve had someone surprised at my bolt moving through a parking lot. No one in my neighborhood owned an ev until last year and I’ve only had mine 2 months. So it’s a little concerning to me having all this in that short of a time, my kids drive the bolt too and I try and remind them often.
Weird no one but you and me noticed this op. Possibly it’s because redditors are absolutely tribal dishonest people who make their consumption part of their identity and will completely lie to you when it seems it will gain a point for their side or make them feel better about their own decisions. (I would not trust redditors as a whole for anything except a few things that would get you thrown in prison)
The regulators have been working on this problem for awhile.
My 2015 Volt has a pedestrian horn that you activate on the stalk.
My Tesla sounds like a UFO when backing up. The Mach-E sounds like a bulldozer when backing up.
Someone missed a basic childhood lesson about how to cross the road. 😂
No.
I don’t feel that way with my Bolt. It makes wind noise and it’s very visible
100% of people who care about not being run over look both ways before crossing a road (regardless of size).