A very good thursday morning to you. Now on bbc news, its time for click. This week poetry bot writes a classic. Electric truck goes round the bend. And its time we stop hey, whats that sound . Horns blare noisy, isnt it . Pardon . I said, its noisy. Its been the bane of our lives for as long as i can remember, trying to film next to busy roads and having to fight the noise of the traffic but in a few years time, it will be replaced by this. Soft noises Electric Cars are not only good for the planet, but theyre also good for our ears, not that everyone minds. Makes car revving noises but of course, there is a problem. If Electric Cars dont make a sound, you cant hear them coming. Over the past two years, new british eu and us laws have required that for safety reasons, all new Electric Vehicles must be fitted with a device that makes a noise. And the car world is getting excited about the idea of on brand unique sound. In fact you could say it has generated a bit of a buzz, and a beep
Electric cars are not only good for the planet, but theyre also good for our ears not that everyone minds. Makes car revving noises but, of course, there is a problem if Electric Cars dont make a sound, you cant hear them coming. So, dan simmons has been driving a little bit slower than usual, it has to be said, to find out what might replace the sound of silence. If Electric Cars have to make a noise, well, we could end up with Something Like this. Electronic music plays well, you wouldnt accidentally step out in front of it, would you . This is an Art Experiment to see how cars could interpret and complement the soundscape around them. More on that idea in a bit. But first, to get a feel of what the Ev Manufacturers themselves have in store for us, ive come to japanese car giant nissans Technical Development centre in bedfordshire. What do you think people expect an electric car to sound like . That was the interesting question that we started with what should a car sounds like . Bec
Because none of us had really thought about it. Itjust sounds like the engine. The leaf is one of the worlds best selling Electric Cars and they now come with nissans reimagined suite of sounds called canto. We wanted to be optimistic, a little bit futuristic, but not to pretend to be anything that the car wasnt. We didnt want to pretend to be a Petrol Engine and we ended up putting sort of three together and then melding sounds together and building from there a profile of different sounds that would work with the car. Not all new leafs will sound the same. Were the first tv crew to be invited into nissans top secret semi anechoic chamber, and pauls the man in charge of testing the sounds and tweaking them to different markets. Because it turns out, Different Countries have different ideas of what good quality sounds like. In europe, we attribute quality with a more sort of solid feel, sort of more like a low frequency content, like a solid closing of an oak door is a good quality sou
Coming up in around 10 minutes time, well have newswatch. But first, heres click. Noisy, isnt it . Pardon . I said, its noisy. Its been the bane of our lives for as long as i can remember, trying to film next to busy roads and having to fight the noise of the traffic but in a few years time, it will be replaced by this. Soft noises Electric Cars are not only good for the planet, but theyre also good for our ears, not that everyone minds. Makes car revving noises but, of course, there is a problem. If Electric Cars dont make a sound, you cant hear them coming. So, dan simmons has been driving a little bit slower than usual, it has to be said, to find out what might replace the sound of silence. If Electric Cars have to make a noise, well, we could end up with Something Like this. Or you wouldnt accidentally step out in front of it, would you . This is an Art Experiment to see how cars can interpret and complement the soundscape around them. More on that idea in a bit. But first, to get
Lu kewsa burak. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. First the headlines. Pre departure tests will be required for all arrivals into the uk from tuesday to stop the spread of the Omicron Variant as nigeria becomes the latest country to be added to the travel red list. Thousands of homes in scotland and Northern England begin a second weekend without power after storm arwen. The parents of a teenager suspected of a Deadly School shooting have pleaded not guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter after they were found hiding in a basement at least one person has been killed and Dozens Injured after a volcano erupts on the indonesian island of java. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the author and journalist Yasmin Alibhai brown and the Director Of Communications at the free market think tank, the institute of economics affairs, annabel denham. Lets take a first look at some of tomorrows front front pages st