Asylum Revolt: Lunatics Now In Charge

h/t SiG

Coming soon to an EV dealer near you.

From Silicon Graybeard, the "Making Cars Noisier Act Of 2010":

In 2010, the US Congress acted on a problem that very few of us knew existed: electric cars are too quiet, especially at low speeds, and therefore pedestrians and bicyclists are more likely to get hit by an electric car.  The answer?  Make electric cars noisier.  That raises the questions of exactly how noisy and exactly what kinds of noise.  After years of study, it appears they've started ruling on just how to fix this. 

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This sounds like a job for The Federal Government!

RTWT.

 

 

You can't make this kind of insanity up.

But you can shoot its authors in the head, which is even better.

Nota bene the idea of holding the bicyclists and pedestrians accountable for putting their iPhones away, and watching WTF they're doing, and where they're going at all times was never, for even a fleeting moment, considered by our governmental would-be overlords.

I'm sanguine in the long-run; I have both a gambling marker at Vegas, and a stake in the copyright, for the first class-action lawsuit when thousands of people sue the car makers for hearing problems after long-term exposure to governmental-induced noise, so my retirement is now fully funded, with the certainty of the sun rising.

But as for civilization itself, and general sanity?
There's only one answer.

Heads.
Pikes.
Assembly required.

Barring personal tragedy, if you're old enough to read this, you'll probably see it in your lifetime.

 

And if we're voting, I want my EV to sound like the old TV Batmobile's jet engine, complete with flames from the tail exhaust every time I accelerate. If it can use spotted owl carcasses, diesel fuel, the dirtiest crude oil, high-sulfur coal, or nuclear power for that effect, bonus points.

So much for zero emissions.
"Green" communists' heads exploding: just a serendipitous cherry on that cake.