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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello. Your minute begins now.
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2 .Kids today may be more familiar with the sound of a rushing highway than a rushing river.
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3 .But imagine that the internal combustion engine could be set aside and we could design the soundscape of our future.
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4 .What aural environment would you choose for traffic?
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5 .For the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the answer is that new cars should sound like old cars.
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6 .Hybrid and electric vehicles can be so quiet that people outside the vehicle can't hear them.
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7 .So these too-quiet cars will be required to sound something like this
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8 .The Obama administration wants a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.
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9 .Slow sales of cars like the Chevy Volt and Tesla Model S may keep that number from being reached.
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10 .But there are still hundreds of thousands of EVs and hybrids on the road today.
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11 .It's hoped that the new rule will help prevent thousands of pedestrian and cyclist deaths.
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12 .But the rule also hews to a possibly outdated tradition, like people who set their cellphone ringtone to sound like an old rotary phone.
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13 .And it's wasting a chance to reimagine what our cars, roads and even cities could sound like.
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14 .Your minute is up, for Scientific American 60-Second Earth. I'm David Biello.
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