This is all down to carelessness, and pedestrians, like any other road user, need to look where they're going. A Rolls-Royce isn't all that much louder than an EV, and we haven't been suggesting that Rollses should carry an extra klaxon or whatever.
Many of the said pedestrians are listening to iPods etc. and wouldn't hear anything less than a 1950s Commer lorry coming up behind them. As Thomas Gray didn't quite write:
The rush-hour tolls the knell of parting day;
The cars wind slowly homeward o'er the lea;
The pedestrian plods his absent-minded way,
And leaves the world.....most unexpectedly.
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