Michael Stipe and electric cars

Apparently, Michael Stipe (of REM) nearly got run over by an electric car because he didn’t hear it coming. Fair enough, since they don’t have engines, they’re much quieter than petrol-powered cars. This led to a brilliant idea that’s almost as good as some of the ones I have: make electric cars have mobile phone-like ringtones! Yeah! El Reg , as always, has the skinny.