Tech | September 19, 2009 | 2 comments

Nissan Gives Electric Cars Blade Runner Audio Effect

source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/uptospeed/2009/09/nissan-silent-electric-cars-blade-runner.html

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A campaign backed by automakers and some lawmakers to make electric or hybrid cars noisier in a bid to increase safety for pedestrians and cyclists has taken a strange, Blade Runner-type twist. Nissan sound engineers have announced that the Leaf electric car set for release next year will emit a 'beautiful and futuristic' noise similar to the sound of flying cars — or 'spinners' — that buzz around 2019 Los Angeles in Ridley Scott's dystopian thriller based on a Philip K. Dick science fiction novel.
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