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maybe people are more used to the traditional bell sound?
Having watched something about the thought process behind the Jaguar iPace safety sounds, there's (probably) something in this.
Edit: link - https://media.jaguar.com/news/2018/10/sound-jaguar-i-pace-protects-road-users
c00ps-
wow! i had no idea this was going to be a legal requirement on electric cars.
not sure how this can be enforced as a global requirement...does this mean that it'll apply to electric scooters / motorbikes / skateboards as well? - i'd imagine not, but perhaps it should apply to all road going vehicles that need to be registered to use the roads? i'll do a bit of digging on the legislation.
i guess the issue is that if all electric vehicle manufacturers are left to implement their own warning sounds, then people aren't going to be universally aware of all of the differing sounds (much like the problem with the bells) - maybe they've all got to be based on similar frequencies or something?
interesting!
bigshape
i have a spurcycle style bell on my drop bar bike, and a traditional 'ring, ring' bell on my flat bar.
i find the traditional bell a lot better for alerting people to my presence than the 'ting' of the spurcycle one, which people tend to regularly ignore.
maybe people are more used to the traditional bell sound?