DANGERS OF ELECTRIC CARS: I mowed down a lady. “Early on, Shirley told me that she hadn’t heard the car running. We may not always be conscious of it, but humans use subtle sensory clues as a sort of early-warning system. A running engine would likely have alerted Shirley that my car had the potential to move. Who knew that the old motorcycle adage ‘loud pipes save lives’ also applied to idling electric cars?”

If I get an electric car, I want it to make a Jetsons style bleebling noise.