FWIW, one of the psychologists in the human factors team agrees with you that having cars make noise provides significant concious and subconcious information to other road users, which helps prevent accidents in both the long and short term, and that noise-makers on almost silent cars would be a Good Idea. I personally think such things should be kept to an absloute minimum, but would want to see some reasearch done as to what that absolute minimum was.
I might ask the Mitsubishi people what their official thoughts on the matter are. Obviously, they've chosen not to include a noise-maker in these demonstration cars, but I'd be surprised if they haven't done some thinking about the issue.
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Date: 2009-02-11 10:44 pm (UTC)FWIW, one of the psychologists in the human factors team agrees with you that having cars make noise provides significant concious and subconcious information to other road users, which helps prevent accidents in both the long and short term, and that noise-makers on almost silent cars would be a Good Idea.
I personally think such things should be kept to an absloute minimum, but would want to see some reasearch done as to what that absolute minimum was.
I might ask the Mitsubishi people what their official thoughts on the matter are. Obviously, they've chosen not to include a noise-maker in these demonstration cars, but I'd be surprised if they haven't done some thinking about the issue.