The Car Thread

[The Bear]

Yeah, fuck the visually impaired as well...

Do they often walk out into traffic? How is it any different from now? They don't cross the road by deciding when it goes quiet!

 

[machin05]

People absolutely do step into the road using sound as an initial indicator. I see it when I'm on my bike all the time. To deny this is just neglectful driving, imo.

 

[Alan]

We get it, Bear, you think vehicular manslaughter should be decriminalized.

 

[The Bear]

People absolutely do step into the road using sound as an initial indicator. I see it when I'm on my bike all the time. To deny this is just neglectful driving, imo.

I'm not denying anything. You're suggesting lots of things about me which aren't true. I've never been even close to hitting a pedestrian in my life. I watch them like hawks, particularly when young kids are walking near to the road.

 

[The Bear]

We get it, Bear, you think vehicular manslaughter should be decriminalized.

What the fuck is this sort of comment?Just outright rude and unnecessary.

 

[b3h]

You might get a new user title out of it though if another mod is feeling spicy

 

[machin05]

I'm not denying anything. You're suggesting lots of things about me which aren't true. I've never been even close to hitting a pedestrian in my life. I watch them like hawks, particularly when young kids are walking near to the road.

"They don't cross the road by deciding when it goes quiet"

Sounds like it to me

 

[Alan]

What the fuck is this sort of comment?Just outright rude and unnecessary.

It’s a joke, mate, but tbh you’ve dug yourself a bit of a hole on this one.

 

[pagey]

"They don't cross the road by deciding when it goes quiet"

Sounds like it to me

Tbf, they wouldn't rely on sound alone a second time

 

[leedswolf]

Do they often walk out into traffic? How is it any different from now? They don't cross the road by deciding when it goes quiet!

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[Paddingtonwolf]

Back to the Stinger, still readily available here. Very popular and the police have them since the Holden Commodore went out of production.

 

[Wolf Hunting]

Isn't there an option to have 'Engine noise at less than 50kph' or something?
Surely if you can choose your own colour of interior lights from a pallet of 50 colours, you could have (or even record) your own sound chip?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

So you hit stealth mode as soon as you hit 51kph?

 

[EpsomWolf]

The guy at AutoTopNL has just done a review with a top speed autobahn run in the much awaited Tesla Plaid (Track package).

Best reviewer on the net imo. Skip to about 6:20 if you want to get straight to the autobahn.

Strap yourself in:

 

[AndyWolves]

Re: quiet EVs. Road near me has recently been resurfaced and the tyre noise has really dropped. EVs pootling along at 30 are incredibly hard to hear.

My situational awareness definitely relied on sound a lot more than I realised.

 

[Tredman]

All BEVs have AVAS.

 

[EdgeOfTheAlps]

"They don't cross the road by deciding when it goes quiet"

Sounds like it to me

Sorry if you're able bodied and walk out into traffic without looking you may well be coming out of it worse off but it is your fault. Same goes for stepping out in front of cyclists, even quieter than electric cars.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

The visually impaired are what was being referred to and they are rather obviously not able bodied

 

[EdgeOfTheAlps]

The visually impaired are what was being referred to and they are rather obviously not able bodied

I was referring to Bears post about someone looking at their phone whilst stepping out into the road, and the allusion that he was somehow driving recklessly

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Ah right - bit of cross purposes then!