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.
No. The synthetic sounds a lot of hybrids and evs have are actually louder than many idling engines, so if anything they would seem less likely to be involved in accidents… at least in low speed situations.
Yeah. Pretty funny because my neighbors joke that they can hear me coming and going more than most of the other cars