Eco Factor: Electric utility vehicle with NoViSim’s sound system to alert pedestrians of approaching vehicles.
Everyday our newspapers write about a couple of road fatality incidences. This is the scenario when we can hear noisy carbon guzzlers approaching toward us, imagine times when we’ll have just noiseless machines running on the roads. One wouldn’t be aware of an approaching silent electric car until you see it passing by. So, concerned about the safety of the pedestrians and cyclists, researchers at Warwick University’s WMG have specially built an electric van to find out what noises alert pedestrians efficiently without annoying them.
Dubbed the ELVIN (Electric Vehicle with Interactive Noise), this utility vehicle used around the campuses to patrol car parking is fitted with NoViSim’s sound system. Using the audio engineering expertise of NoViSim and EC Tunes, WMG has created six separate sounds. The vehicles are put for testing at the university campus, where it tries out a variety of different types of sounds to see people’s reactions. The listeners will be asked for their opinions and feedback on whether the sounds are suitable as a warning or just too annoying. I believe this experiment to be a brilliant idea to confirm the safety of blind and other pedestrians.
Via: International Business Times
