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The setbacks due to Brexit are rapidly moving from a disaster a week towards a disaster a day. I was always certain that Brexit was a terrible and permanent mistake, but even I didn't anticipate quite the breadth and depth of its ill effects so soon. I can now well envisage a repeat of the...

Of course I would never have expected them to actually follow the advice, just reflect on it from their hospital bed and maybe paste a printout onto their plaster cast. .

Which is wrong. As I've said more than once above, they are already let down by all the quite silent vehicles on the road, many of the luxury cars, bicycles, even e-scooters now, and all the others I've listed above. Add to that the fact that city background noise from all sources can drown...

True, but others like Rolls Royce, Bentley and at one time Lexus dealt with that too fairly effectively and I doubt tyre noise is any more noticed from a distance than the e-car noises. Plus wind from a pedestrian towards a car can stop any sound transmission, what ever it is, so only the eyes...

He should do like Astra Zeneca and leave the over 65s out of the trial. Then he wouldn't see that shrinkage. .

It's obviously there now they've announced it publically. So far, pending any other story, the only viable account is that it is for secret despatch to Britain in defiance of the EU. Who would do that is anybody's guess. .

But there are far fewer e-cars than bicycles. About 150,000 pure e-cars in Britain and who knows how many millions of bicycles. In the ten years of their existance I haven't heard of a single pedestrian death caused by an e-car in Britain, but I'm sure It would have caused lots of publicity if...

You've helped to illustrate the problem. Imagine a packed city street full of e-cars all with sound emission choices of various sorts. Desperate pedestrians would willingly jump into the path of the cars to permanently escape the cacaphony. .

That includes all the huge numbers of just as silent luxury cars, so as said, why not on them? The numbers are immaterial anyway, every death and serious injury on the roads is unacceptable, so even bicycles should be included if the measure does have value. At some speed yes, but at low...

I did the same experimentally, but rules are rules, the conditions say I should not use the service and most people are barred. I didn't go ahead since it was possible, even likely, that I would mess up their system of scheduling my second dose so that would be irresponsible. .

You are just being perverse. Why should I use something that totally fails to do what it should and is of no use? And why is it on e-cars when all the other almost silent vehicles have never had it? I can tell you why, it's because people like you created a foolish law in an unthinking...

No I did not !!! "Won't add anything to safety like my one" means my one also doesn't add to safety. To read as you'd read it that mine added to safety, I would have posted this word form: "even though they won't add anything to safety, unlike my one when it's on." Your "disagree" just...

Why did you post this when I've just said it adds nothing to safety? It's not foolish at all to turn it off, the sound just adds an irritating low level noise that pollutes the environment while being useless for its intended purpose. Since I couldn't hear mine when inside the car I carried...

That's only for booking both injections and there are numerous other restrictions, all listed on that link. .

That's complete nonsense and irresponsible of anyone if only using ears to do that. The junction from my road out to the T junction road at the end is made blind much of the time due to a bus stand on the immediate left with buses paused for several minutes. I woudn't dream of relying on...

And then a warning sound won't be needed since pedestrians will had got used to using their eyes for a change instead of just stepping off the kerb. That said, in over three years with an e-car always in silent mode I haven't had one moment of a problem with it having no engine noise. That's...

They've just died with it. .

100% Bullcrap. .

It would be illogical if it didn't apply to other 20 mph silent vehicles that can and do kill, like bicycles. A very good thing about e-cars is that they will forcibly educate people not to cross roads stupidly using only their ears instead of their eyes. Once a high proportion of cars and...

It makes sense to me. I've long noticed how we tend to suffer one thing at a time, as if what we are suffering protects us against other diseases. My mother is an example of what I mean. She was one of 13 children in her large family and when young suffered rheumatic fever which caused her...