(March 25, 2015 at 5:32 pm)pocaracas Wrote: I once heard the noise a prius made without using the petrol engine... awesome! Loved it!
It was just the wheels rolling on the ground. That's when it made sense to me that they would generate artificial noise on such cars - pedestrian awareness.
Apparently, there was an experiment a century or so ago to fit trains with pneumatic tyres. It made them faster, less prone to wear, more comfortable to ride, and much quieter. So quiet, in fact, that deaths on the rails skyrocketed because people couldn't hear the train coming until it was too late and the experiment had to be abandoned.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
