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There's a similar danger with very quiet and/or electric cars where people near the school barely hear them coming and need more attention to keep themselves safe. Avoiding an older gas or diesel car is practically automatic as you can hear their speed, acceleration and location comparatively far away. I think EV manufacturers have added some sort of noise to low speed driving, but I haven't heard anything beyond one being right behind me

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CraigJPerry 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

I thought they all had AVAS fitted? Are there markets where this isn’t the case?

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linedgolyi 4 days ago | parent [-]

Maybe? Problem is either that it can be and is always disabled by driver, or it's very quiet, because I as a healthy man in their 20s, hear the pavement tire noise before any other noise, and the car is already really close at that point

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fluidcruft 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Most pedestrians have airpods in nowadays and probably couldn't hear an ambulance.

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CraigJPerry 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

In the EU and UK markets we don’t have an option to disable the AVAS noise generator.

It self disables above something like 10kmh when, as you say, tyre roar is the predominant sound a car makes (unless someone is revving the engine I suppose).

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amarcheschi 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I had a silent moped and I had to pass near a school when kids finished school to get to university. It was absolutely dangerous if I was going at a sane speed (less than the limit). I learnt to get very slow before approaching that