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Archive Home > 2009 > September > 24 > A car’s deadly silence

A car’s deadly silence

Could an artificial ‘vroom’ for popular electric hybrids alert pedestrians better?

By Peter Whoriskey / The Bulletin
September 24, 2009

After years of trying to make cars sound as if they were riding on air, engineers are considering how they might bring back some noise. They’re trying to make some of them — those silent hybrids — more audible.

But how?

As hybrids proliferate and major automakers such as Nissan and General....

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