The other day I was playing with my daughter, driving a toy car on the ground, saying, “vroom, vroom”.   In the near future I may have many more options.  With the increase of electric and hybrid cars has come an increase number complaints of people getting hit or almost hit because they can’t hear the car coming.   Many major car manufactures are working on ways to pipe sound out of the cars to make people aware that they are coming.  They may even let us pick our car tones much like a ringtone on your cell phone… that could be fun. I would choose a the sound of the jumbo jet to be piped out of an electric Smart Car… funny.

You can read the whole New York Times article here.