Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
There is probably an elevated risk of killing cats in any electric vehicle because there are fewer signs that the car is “on” and about to drive.
sefra1@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Idk, I find that at low speeds electric cars are louder than modern internal combustion. They have that SciFi drone sound.
bss03@infosec.pub 3 days ago
Depending on the year model of the car, it might not make that sound. It wasn’t required on some of the earlier EVs, which could be eerily quiet. I believe it’s required by law on newer models. Pre-2016 Volts has a “pedestrian horn button”; 2016 and newer Volts play a noise continuously as lower speeds. (My Uncle says it sounds like the warp drive hum on the original Star Trek Enterprise.)
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Not when parked. A cat would thi k it was a parked car.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 days ago
there are those newfangled ICE cars that turn off instead of idle. i don’t quite know how i feel.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
It’s not really all that newfangled. It was part of the eurozone’s requirements for cars and was put in other places as well. I think that it’s approaching a decade now. My neighbor’s 2017 has it.