What's your car's ringtone, man?
Bloomberg reports electric cars are too quite and are running down the unsuspecting blind, young, and elderly. Clearly this is bad for business.
An early idea was for electric cars to re-create the sound of combustion engines, but fortunately Nissan has taken a stand for aesthetics and is moving towards a “beautiful” and “futuristic” sound, like Blade Runner’s flying cars. The sound is completely artificial, I imagine emanating from an unobtrusive external speaker system.
While that’s awesome, the next logical step is even cooler: custom “ringtones” for your car. Don’t like the flying car loop that came bundled with your Chevy Volt? Upload an mp3 of the Enterprise warp core or George Jetson’s car.
And has anyone thought about what the blind are going to do when we have real flying cars? They won’t know whether to duck or run. This isn’t a solution, people!