{"id":4636,"date":"2012-06-08T09:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2012-12-29T02:07:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T07:07:26","slug":"vroom-vroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/vroom-vroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Vroom Vroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/060812_0946_VroomVroom1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The US government is implementing new rules that regulate the amount of noise that cars can make. The twist? They&#8217;re trying to impose a <em>minimum<\/em> requirement for the amount of noise they make. Paul Collins explains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hybrid and electric cars are too silent. This means that people can&#8217;t hear them coming. Studies suggest that they are 37% more likely to collide with pedestrians and 66% more likely to collide with cyclists.<\/li>\n<li>Car makers will be asked to add devices that replicate the sound of the engine of a traditional petrol powered car.<\/li>\n<li>This isn&#8217;t as absurd as it sounds. We add a fake scent to natural gas so that we can detect it if it ever leaks.<\/li>\n<li>In the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century governments required sleighs to have bells so that people heard them coming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more including the perceptive individual who foresaw this problem in 1908, creative ways that car makers have tried to deal with it, why auto-manufacturers don&#8217;t want to add fake sounds, why a doorbell is one proposed solution, and why the car industry has been clumsy, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/gearbox\/2012\/05\/hybrid_and_electric_cars_too_quiet_why_they_re_dangerous_to_pedestrians_.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/gearbox\/2012\/05\/hybrid_and_electric_cars_too_quiet_why_they_re_dangerous_to_pedestrians_.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government is implementing new rules that regulate the amount of noise that cars can make. The twist? They&#8217;re trying to impose a minimum requirement for the amount of noise they make. Paul Collins explains: Hybrid and electric cars are too silent. This means that people can&#8217;t hear them coming. Studies suggest that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/060812_0946_VroomVroom1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7448,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions\/7448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}