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Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2025
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There is probably an elevated risk of killing cats in any electric vehicle because there are fewer signs that the car is "on" and about to drive.
Idk, I find that at low speeds electric cars are louder than modern internal combustion. They have that SciFi drone sound.
Depending on the year model of the car, it might not make that sound. It wasn't required on some of the earlier EVs, which could be eerily quiet. I believe it's required by law on newer models. Pre-2016 Volts has a "pedestrian horn button"; 2016 and newer Volts play a noise continuously as lower speeds. (My Uncle says it sounds like the warp drive hum on the original Star Trek Enterprise.)
not all of them. there's a couple in my city that make no noise when driving slowly. they're so quiet, you can hear their tires popping as they run over small pebbles on the road.
At that speed, the risk of running over anyone is pretty low.
Not when parked. A cat would thi k it was a parked car.
there are those newfangled ICE cars that turn off instead of idle. i don't quite know how i feel.
It's not really all that newfangled. It was part of the eurozone's requirements for cars and was put in other places as well. I think that it's approaching a decade now. My neighbor's 2017 has it.
the pandemic really fucked with my sense of time. the last week has taken a decade and the last decade feels present.