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It looks like the government are going to avoid forcing car manufacturers to make electric cars noisy.
According to The Independent, a study has shown that they're no less noisy than today's cars anyway. Rather than the noise coming from the engine, modern cars are so quiet that it is mostly tyre sounds that you hear when standing on the pavement, and that won't change with electric cars.
I'm kinda torn on this. On the one hand, it's rather cool to glide silently along without the noise of internal combustion coming from somewhere inches from your knees. On the other, I was once almost run over by a Prius outside Aberdeen Station, which came up silently behind me just as I stepped off the kerb.
And how ironic would that have been?
On the third hand, I do quite fancy owning a car that makes the same noise as a Star Wars podracer as it moves through the streets of Edinburgh.
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