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Quiet No More, Suggestions For Hybrid Car Sounds Include Skateboards, Toddlers

from National Public Radio
January 14, 2013

Audie Cornish shares listener suggestions for the sound a quiet hybrid car might make to warn visually impaired people of their approach. The most popular was the sound of the car from The Jetsons cartoon of the 1960s.

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  • All Things Considered, January 14, 2013
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