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I think that EVs needing to make some sort of noise is really not a bad idea as such. Pedestrians are now so commonly buried in their phones that a near silent car is a lot more deadly than it used to be.
My last work car was very quiet at idle, so quiet that one of my workmates thought at one stage that it was a hybrid rolling along at walking pace on electric power, many people tried to step in front of it in the city while I had that. A different era and no smart phones but I don’t recall anyone stepping in front of my slightly anti socially noisy Z car in the decade or so that I had it.
It was interesting listening this morning with a public transport bloke on the radio talking about the latest tram to “other” collisions, apparently a pretty large number of pedestrian/tram impacts this year are people e actually walking in to the side of a tram, rather than in front of one. That has to say chronic “attention on the phoneitis”
Killing a pedestrian who walked into and went under the side of my car because they were too engrossed in Netflix to look where they were walking might not be my fault, but it would not make me feel any better about it and they would be just as dead.
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