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Turns out that by removing it, we’ve discovered that the noise is necessary. You only sound a horn if the driver thinks it is needed, whereas pedestrians & oth
by multjoy 7y ago
Turns out that by removing it, we’ve discovered that the noise is necessary.
You only sound a horn if the driver thinks it is needed, whereas pedestrians & other vulnerable road users are making all sorts of judgements using audio clues that the drivers are completely unaware of.
- Youcandothis 7y agoI don't think noise is necessary. It's only that people are used to noise. I usually wear sound isolating earphones outdors, so I don't hear cars as much now. But to compensate for that I look more around. That's something everyone could learn. Exception is those that are blind, but I think they should be able to get some help from technology to warn them from cars.
- OscarCunningham 7y agoI think my preferred policy would be to mandate this noise for now and then slowly quieten it as people got used to quieter cars.