<![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> I want the Luftwaffe Edition sound effects package. You can choose between 'Stuka' for when you're driving aggressively, or 'Squadron of Heinkels' when you're just droning across the New York State Thruway.

Number_Six

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> @stopcrazypp: I did 140 on my bike this morning. But the again I don't live in LA. Also, sure it does 120, but it drains the batts in two minutes.

joneez

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> Theramin.

lascauxcaveman

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> @stopcrazypp: I see your point, but bragging rights are priceless.

PhoneticLorin

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> @PhoneticLorin:
Hey man, it's one speed. 125mph is pretty fast for 1 gear. Most don't have use for speeds higher than that anyway, like in Europe where many of these sedans have 155mph limiters. Just don't want people thinking somehow just because it is electric that it can't go faster than 125. It can, but it needs a transmission to do so. Basically all the EV companies are using reduction gear because they can reach 100+ or near it without a transmission. This helps efficiency and makes it so there are less parts to break (transmissions are NEVER 100% reliable, a reduction gear on the other hand can be close to 100%). The upper ranges are pretty much useless everyday except for bragging rights and for magazine comparisons of cars...I mean how many chances do you get to go 155.


stopcrazypp

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> I certainly hope one of the sound choices will be "classic rice" - the unmistakable "blat" noise made during deceleration by a rusted out Mazda with a bad valve, a leaking header, $3000 in plastic ground effects, $1000 a pop rims and of course the chrome megaphone exhaust tip

buckminster

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> As usual, the realm of high-tech automotive design has been beaten to the punch by the Oakland car scene. We've had grill speakers in our scrapers for years.

theeastbaykid

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> @slantsick: "..still not in the Pink Floyd/Zeppelin realm.."

EDIT button?

Slantsick goes hybrid: Burns Oil and Rubber

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> @TR3-A: I've been a Steppenwolf fan since I was 12 (I'm 31 now) but I'm really sick to death of that song. On the plus side, it's still not in Pink Floyd/Zeppelin realm of "Enough already!"

How about "Highway Star", "Speed King", or "Space Truckin" by Deep Purple?

Slantsick goes hybrid: Burns Oil and Rubber

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> @Greg A.: Damn, that would've been my pick too.

Euromobile

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> "Born to be Wild" by Steppenwolf... I am showing my age, I guess.

Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway...


TR3-A

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> I need the additional fake blow off noise

PЯide MZЯ DISI

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> Somehow, this idea reminds me of an old SciFi story called "The Marching Morons". In that story, the worlds elite had fooled the worlds overpopulating, breeding morons into driving cars that used speakers to give the impression of speed through phony engine and wind noise and fudging the speedometer readings while the morons were actually driving slowly. Now if only we could get all the morons to jump on a spaceship headed for Venus...

slackinfux

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> I'd want the sound of the Jetson mobile...

+ Watch video

JohnnyWagon

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> @Greg A.: I'd like to retract my vote and vote for the TIE fighter instead... I hate it when people have better ideas than me.

BeerDearthair

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> The TIE Fighter wail is the coolest fake engine sound. Either that or nails-on-the-blackboard would be nice.

Greg A.

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> @milo_carrera:

COTD Seconded!

graverobber- Two BEER minimum

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> I vote for the awesome jet turbine sound of the Batmobile. TELL ME you wouldn't want your car to make that noise as you pulled up in the Batcave... uh... I mean... the, uh, grocery store. AT the grocery store.

Okay, I'm going back to my comic books and bubblegum now.

BeerDearthair

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> @milo_carrera: COTD!

mikedrawcar

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> [I realize some jokes don't seem to work over teh interwebs, but I just signed "W" "T" "F"...in a Helen Keller accent.]

milo_carrera

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> Leave it silent and run over inattentive kids before they grow up to make another generation of inattentive escalade drivers. I'm a firm believer in Darwinism.

joneez

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> How about Speed Buggy's sputtering sounds and "Roomazoomzoom!" when you mash the accelerator.

SundaySunday

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> The rhythmic squeaking of a spinning hamster wheel.
Or
The sound of a horse drawn cart on a cobblestone street.
Or
Flatulence





Bret

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> Couldn't we just put some baseball cards in the spokes?

milo_carrera

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> just get the generic sound of a woman screaming that was used in all the old horror movies.

i really think they should just let the thing be silent. if people can't be bothered to look both ways then why should we be bothered with having to basically yell at them via external speakers? i kid, of course.

the jetson's sound was probably the best suggestion so far though. it was sort of a moog version of the old beetle engine.

harumph

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> That is so stupid, but here are the options I want:
1. Computer Voice: "Warning, I am an Electric Car. Warning, I am an Electric Car..."
2. Pauly Shore: "Righteous Dude, Righteous Dude, Righteous Dude..."
3. College Student: "Don't Taze Me Bro, Don't Taze Me Bro, Don't Taze Me Bro..."
4. New York Philharmonic: "Theme from Psycho"

graverobber- Two BEER minimum

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> @RalphieDC: "...Fast for an electric..." Still doesn't make it fast. The styling makes it look like it should be real-car fast, not just electric-car fast. It's just so extremely wide and long-nosed.

PhoneticLorin

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> And I thought the Q Drive thing stood for Quiet Drive...
Agrree though with Ash78, I'd go for the Jaws motion picture soundtrack... Na,na,na...


beforetemps

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> that "puta puta puta" jetson's sound would be cool. The Flintstones feet shuffling thing when your first leave the line would also be fun.

The Jaws Theme, if it could be played at different speeds as you drove would be awesome.

drewheyman

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> "Ride the Lightning" by Metallica

frink84

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> I'm picturing something that was sold here in NJ for a long while - small conical plastic devices that you would adhere to your bumper. In theory, at speed they would emit a high pitched whistle in front of the car that was supposed to make deer run away.

Certainly something like that could be engineered to be audible to people in front of the car, but not inside it? That would alert people to its oncoming presence?

mackenzie

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> Oooh, I know. "Electric Funeral" by Black Sabbath.

Ash78

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> @PhoneticLorin: 125 is fast for an electric and 0-60 in 6 seconds for a hybrid 4 door sedan(coupe?) is fairly quick.

RalphieDC

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> "Get out of my way, poor people. I'm environmentally superior and have more disposable income than you."

DannyBN

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> Why all the fake muscles on something that only goes 125?

PhoneticLorin

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> Jaws shark attack tune.

Ash78

]]> <![CDATA[Fisker Adding External Speakers To Karma, Michael Stipe Alarmed]]> I want this car to be dead silence.....You can scare people to death with the look of it....I wan't the mimer version

SVENSSON

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