Two US congressmen have a problem with environmentally friendly cars and want to introduce legislation to overcome this. They are too quiet. Democrat Edolphus Towns and Republican Cliff Stearns, are sponsoring a bill that is aimed at introducing regulations to protect both blind and sighted people from the dangers of low noise cars, such as electric vehicles and Hybrids.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is planning to have a listening session, to consider possible solutions to the quiet-car problem and is already working with manufacturers. No doubt safety conscious EU Ministers will be listening intently to the outcome. Perhaps they might consider forcing all “quiet” cars to carry around crates of empty milk bottles?