Japanese transport ministry requests audible alerts be fitted to hybrid and electric vehicles
Might become compulsory to equip hybrid, electric and fuel-cell vehicles with vehicle motion alarm system by 2018.
Japan's transport ministry, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), is planning to ask automakers to install alert sound systems on their hybrid and electric vehicles. The audible alerts will make pedestrians and cyclists aware when the vehicles are nearby. Citing an unnamed official from the ministry, the news report adds that it might become compulsory for automakers to equip their new hybrid, electric and fuel-cell vehicles – which are particularly quiet at low speeds – with vehicle motion alarm system by 2018.
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