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Coming up with stupid excuses for not switching to EVs in car racing

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The Swedish Automobile Sports Federation (Svenska Bilsportförbundet) don’t want to see electric cars in their racing series.
The reason: EVs are too quiet.
”A silent car on a snowy winter road can be dangerous, since the audience is sometimes standing very close to the road”, says Pernilla Karlsson, chairman of the federation’s environmental committee, in an interview in the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter.
Well, Pernilla (and the rest of the environmental committee). Here are two super simple solutions to the so-called problem:
1. Move the audience further away from the roads (which will also increase public safety)
2. Add artificial motor noise to the cars. There are already functional up-and-running solutions for this.
I am getting sick and tired of people who choose to see problems instead of solutions, and who cling on to yesterdays polluting technologies for dear life, while pretending to work for a better environment.
Full interview (in Swedish):
https://bit.ly/3xd9KNt



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