Real gearheads love the loud, roaring engine sounds of their cars. How can you get them to accept something totally silent?

First up, it's not totally silent. When accelerating the motor produces a turbine-like whine that some have described as powerful, purposeful and futuristic. (One reporter likened it to the Millennium Falcon about to jump into hyperspace.) Decades of driving ICE-powered cars have conditioned drivers to expect loud engine noise and often judge car engines by the sounds they make.

Changing their way of thinking might not come easily -- particularly for those who derive a perverse pleasure from waking up the neighborhood. Their neighbors may be glad to see more electric cars on the road. Q2: Silent cars are dangerous, you can't hear them coming!

Tesla Roadster is not the first very silent car. Such cars have been among us for a long time. If they were really any more dangerous than ordinarily loud cars, that would show in accident statistics.

For example, Toyota Prius is capable of low-speed electric driving and is thus very silent at low speed: The National Highway Traffic Safety ... more.

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