Their quiet performance is ostensibly one of the
socially beneficial features of
electric cars, but I believe it makes them quite
dangerous to
cyclists and
pedestrians. When thousand-pound chunks of metal are hurtling at us, it's helpful to hear them coming. So, as a
safety mandate,
electric cars should be required to make the pleasant bubbly-
sputtering sound made by
flying cars on the
Jetsons.
If we have to, I guess we could give drivers several different noise options, but they should never be able to operate in stealth mode. I'm reluctant to concede even these other options, because I'm very partial to the Jetsons car sound. Since the future is here, and it's horribly deficient in flying cars, friendly robots, and moving sidewalks, they could at least give us some of the trappings of the promised futuristic utopia, such as the Jetsons car sound.