Petrol and Disel vehicles tend to make huge Engine sound. That means you can use your ear to determine whether there is a vehicle coming from the distance where you may not see, especially during heavy fog or during crossing road inside a inner road.
Lets be honest here, 99.99% people only follow good practices when crossing road in a major highway. Most people dont even look behind when crossing in small roads away from the highway.
I was walking today and an electric scooter just speeded up and passed me by. If it were a petrol engine I would hear it coming even when I am not directly looking.
Lets be real, OP didnt look both ways and almost got hit by a scooter.
Sounds like he needs to revisit his don’t look both ways unless crossing a highway rule.
OP don’t visit any major city, Id worry for your safety as a pedestrian.
I guess it could matter if I were to drive with the windows down and not listen to the radio but…
I’ve had 2 times on my bike in my neighborhood someone passing me slow 18ish I didn’t realize until they were in my peripheral, it was not a near hit or anything close but I would have heard a gas car a lot sooner and it just was something made me jump a bit and is etched into my memory. On the other side of things I’ve also had 2 or 3 times I’ve had someone surprised at my bolt moving through a parking lot. No one in my neighborhood owned an ev until last year and I’ve only had mine 2 months. So it’s a little concerning to me having all this in that short of a time, my kids drive the bolt too and I try and remind them often.
Weird no one but you and me noticed this op. Possibly it’s because redditors are absolutely tribal dishonest people who make their consumption part of their identity and will completely lie to you when it seems it will gain a point for their side or make them feel better about their own decisions. (I would not trust redditors as a whole for anything except a few things that would get you thrown in prison)
100% of people who care about not being struck look both ways before crossing a road.
The regulators have been working on this problem for awhile.
My 2015 Volt has a pedestrian horn that you activate on the stalk.
My Tesla sounds like a UFO when backing up. The Mach-E sounds like a bulldozer when backing up.
Someone missed a basic childhood lesson about how to cross the road. 😂