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It is clearly stated in the passage that the owners of electric vehicles might be interested in environmental conservation, but ----.
Saving the planet might be the selfless motive for
driving electric cars, but most owners derive the
greatest pleasure from the silence of their vehicles.
However, it’s a pleasure soon to disappear as
lawmakers in Europe and the US prepare rules to make
them noisier. The argument is that pedestrians would
be safer, especially those with impaired vision and
hearing. Although some figures from the US do suggest
that proportionately there are higher collision rates with
electric vehicles, conclusive data is nevertheless
scarce. Do people really navigate the urban jungle
using only their ears? Or indeed the latest
diesel-engined vehicles, which, at low speeds, are very
quiet? In fact, electric cars offer a rare opportunity to cut
both chemical and noise pollution and we should
embrace them. The sound made by internal-combustion
engines is just an unwelcome waste product. Some
people may find it useful, but then so did those who
gathered up the dung from all our horse-driven
carriages to use as fertiliser. Insisting that electric cars
make a noise would be like passing a law in the early
20th century, obliging drivers of the new-fangled “motor
vehicle” to deposit a load of well-rotted compost on the
side of the road every 50 miles.