Tesla is top selling luxury sports car in California

[JayBird]

You can't hear Teslas at all on the road.  I think they're great and all, but as a pedestrian/non-car owner, they are more harmful to me than a diesel pickup truck.  I'm actually not kidding - electric cars with no noise scare the crap out of pedestrians, need to be more alert than ever when jay-walking (we all jay-walk, don't say "just wait for signal").  And yes, it seems like 1/3 of the cars in SF now are electric/silent hybrids.  I know nothing of pedestrian signals, just that myself and others I know are more vigilant than ever (this isn't much of a problem in SoCal where everyone drives anyway).

Silent tires? Tesla needs to work with the military, they've developed a truly stealth vehicle!

We have fully electric mail trucks in NYC and the strange looking vessels sneak up on you yet they never surprise. If you have even a vague sense of your surroundings you know they're there and plus those tires you can hear on the road. I say bring more out, if it causes those to be aware of what's around them then it is well worth it.

[BridgeTroll]

I wonder if we will start seeing more of this...

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/car-sharing-increasingly-popular-in-german-cities-a-913891.html

[JayBird]

^ I've used ZipCar quite a lot this summer in NYC and I love it, think the rent by hour car market will only continue to grow.