Nissan, Mitsubishi tell NHTSA requiring electric vehicles to make noise will turn buyers away

So basically, we'll lose one of the major advantages of electric cars to appease a small group. I love lobbyists Hopefully the noise in the noise-maker can be customized -- if I'm going to be causing noise pollution, I'd like mine to yell "OUT OF THE WAY STEVIE WONDER!" in a Zarvox Apple voice.

What's next: forcing bicycles to put cards in the spokes to be audible to blind people? Why not have blind people carry some sort of transponder that turns the noisemakers on, instead of having them on all the time, annoying the sighted?