I propose the sounds of a toilet flushing - as in there goes taxpayer money down the toilet - and everyone will immediately recognize that there is money-waster nearby.

More Rube Goldberg-esque creation of problems through government 'solutions.'

How about ice cream truck music? Thousands of cars playing a tinkly version of 'The Entertainer.'

What's wrong with "BEE-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-P" ??

Why does this headline bring up memories of Garett Morris loudly doing the 'news for the deaf' on the original Saturday Night Live?

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I always wanted my car to sound like the Jetsons.

Now we are "creating" noise. What do these people (guberment) want?

How about a horn that goes "Obowmow, Obowmow

I actually noticed this recently when a car passed me on the street and I hadn't realized it was coming up behind me. Very silent, and startling.

The best alerts are for rare events. However we can't ask that blind people carry a little proximity transmitter to alert nearby EV drivers. That would be discrimination.

So make EVs noisier and constantly annoy everyone. Then as electric cars become common everyone will be constantly annoyed and everyone will begin ignore the sounds.

Those with poor hearing deserve help too. So put flashing lights on car roofs. And then even bigger flashing lights on police and emergency vehicles so people will know they aren't ordinary cars.

Letting blind people drive is the next civil right struggle as gay marriage becomes routine. The dead already vote.

How much you wanna' bet Congress makes them run a gasoline engine somewhere in the car so not only will people hear it but it will be recognized as a car?
100 years ago, some states required that a man with a lantern and a bell walk preceding a horseless carriage so it didn't scare people and horses I suspect they made a lot of noise.

How about we put a little east-german trebant 2-cycle engine in the front of the electric car so all the folks in the bike lane and blind folks crossing mid-block can hear/smell the coal-fired/electric battery cars coming and going down the street? This will allow recycling, provide some USD cash subsidies to the Obama-loving Ossis at the same time.

Anyone old enough to remember cars with L-head or flathead engines know that those cars made absolutely no noise at idle or at low speeds. They were in Plymouth, Dodge, Ford, Studebaker, Pontiac, Olds, etc. up until the mid 50's.

Put a motion detector on the front of the car such that when it detects motion a voice shouts..."GET OUT OF THE WAY"

#1, it had better be the sound of one of those l.6 gallon toilets. No wasteful toilet noises allowed.

It's not just blind pedestrians it's everyone.

I think this is a good idea, actually.

... but I shudder to think what kind of downloadable tones we're going to end up with. Horse-hooves clop-cloping would probably be a good one. Ride of the Valkyries might be too much.

What about a recording of "What a fool am I"

Right.... Learned this in grade school. One clothes pin, one playing card. One bicycle with spokes.

Since the threshold of being radically overpriced has already been crossed, who's to question another costly add on?

Wait until the liberals demand cages around the wind generators to keep the birds safe.

A Large Sucking Sound?

Well here in NJ we have these stupid laws that autos must yield to pedestrians anywhere in a crosswalk, even if across the street. Unfortunately this has led to jaywalkers thinking they can stroll out into the street anywhere they please and cars will screech to a halt for them. One of the worst challenges I've seen are the people who have decided they're so special that they can cross AGAINST a green light and and think all the cars bearing down on them are required to stop. Of course, responsible drivers do indeed have to avoid striking pedestrians at all times but this law is pretty silly.

Another nail in the electric car coffin. Wasn't the silence a selling point?

One of a gazillion expensive regulations that will hit us 11/06 if OBummer re-elected.