• ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    People get motion sickness because they expect the noise. EVs are also more dangerous to pedestrians particularly the blind.

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      3 days ago

      I think pickups are more dangerous than almost all other vehicles for pedestrians and those definitely aren’t quiet.

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        3 days ago

        Such “bullshit” that Ford commissioned a study into it:

        Average illness ratings were significantly lower for the condition that contained informative auditory cues, as compared to the condition without informative cues. This knowledge, i.e. that auditory signals can improve anticipation of motion, could be of importance in reducing carsickness in domains such as that of autonomous vehicles,

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          Man, look at me on this bicycle being all dissonant. Or a train. Or one wheel. Or any other number of things that don’t go vroom vroom.