Electric cars - silence is deadly?

Electric cars, especially the very small cars, are basically greenwash and a major strategic policy mistake, about on a par with Seventies promises that smaller cars would 'ease congestion'--more units were sold, and the exact opposite happened.
Very true. The problem is that hearing people have got used to the ugly noise that cars make and often navigate by this. In that respect, the proliferation of more silent cars could actually have a beneficial effect, as people got used to using their ears more. However, it is the case quite irrespective of the existence of cars that different people tend to use different senses more than others. Some will look more (even if not d/Deaf), some will listen more. Eye contact in traffic is much more important than listening.

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Eyes are smashing things, batteries (having an energy density less than that of wood FFS) are rather less smashing.