I have a problem with silent cars. Odd objection as overly noisy cars are a real pain. A week ago I had my second near miss with silent car mayhem. One of my clients has a Tesla. It was in his driveway, he had just gotten in, I didn't realize he was going to pull out immediately but he did. I had just walked through the opening between the car and one side of the brick wall that abuts either side of the driveway. Came way too close to the car crushing my leg as the side I walked past was maybe 6 inches from the edge of the gate.

Odd way to park but it makes sense if you see the layout. I'm conditioned, like most all of us, to be notified the car could move by the sound of the engine starting up.

No one is going to want some automatic beep-beep whenever the car is about to move from a stop. Or some recording piped out for all to hear whenever the car is moving. I don't know what the answer is.

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