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Originally Posted by glend
What if the pedestrian is deaf? What do you want to regulate for that scenario, perhaps a rotating beacon on top of every vehicle.
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That's not a particularly apt comparison. If you are deaf you can at least still use your sense of vision when crossing the road, to look whether there is a car coming.
If you are blind and can only ever hear the faint wheel noise of an EV on quiet streets... well, a much more apt comparison would be if someone made a car that was 90% invisible. Sort of a shimmer that you could only see in direct light. For such a cloaked vehicle, on a rainy day, a deaf person crossing the road would have absolutely no way of knowing that they are stepping into certain doom.
And yes, I would indeed expect regulation to require cars that are made of some material with intrinsic cloaking technology to have a big rotating beacon on top!