Nissan’s Future Electric Cars Will Have A Blade Runner Inspiration

On tomorrows roads in our future gleaming metropolises, electric cars will be the norm. This shiny future is almost here and while propellerheads in the world’s car labs are getting the designs correct and going for future tech and future style, there is a problem with electrics that needs fixing. Electric cars are silent at low speeds. I myself was almost smushed by a Prius the other day.

So, to combat the deadly problem of pedestrian smushing, Nissan engineers have decided to equip their future model electrics with a jay walker alerting simulated wrrrr.

Toshiyuki Tabata, enginner and vibration expert of long standing, has a plan.

“We decided that if we’re going to do this, if we have to make sound, then we’re going to make it beautiful and futuristic. We wanted something a bit different, something closer to the world of art.”

That’s the spirit! I love it. Form and function. Only dead head engineers and designers sacrifice one for another. Everything worth building is worth making beautiful. Thanks Gizmodo.