[saiya-jin]

You are utterly overblowing one part (noise pollution from EVs, which is really just a bit louder humm, for whatever personal reasons you have) and ignoring the additional, massive and instant benefits of actually saving lives. I definitely appreciate the added noise, so do my small kids, and they don't have to learn this from having school mate killed by ultra quiet car, same for ie elderly. Not living on this planet alone, did you notice?

Noise pollution from ie ambulance, sports car, basically any motorbike, old car, trucks and so on is much much bigger. Where is your outrage for those?

And no, noise pollution from these cars discussed is not causing massive health issues that outweigh people getting maimed and killed by them, thats just your personal preferences (like not owning a car because you are young without a family etc) you would like to push on whole society for whatever personal reasons.

[singleshot_]

Making life much more annoying at the benefit of a few kids getting run over is not automatically a great tradeoff. As a society, we should be thinking harder about these sorts of conundrums. No one wants to get run over and yeah it's a bad outcome, but how far would you go? How many times do you have to get woken up by an Amber alert before you turn it off?

Maybe his personal reason is that he's absolutely capable of getting out of the way of a car, but he doesn't like noise. That's a reasonable preference. If you absolutely can't guarantee that a kid ends up under a car without the noise, fine, but I doubt that's true.

Sure, we dont live on this planet alone, but that seems like it's more justification for not intentionally making our shared space miserable, not less.