Nissan’s Beautiful and Futuristic Sound

Bloomberg reports on Nissan Motor’s efforts to create sound for silent electric cars.

“We decided that if we’re going to do this, if we have to make sound, then we’re going to make it beautiful and futuristic,” [engineer Toshiyuki Tabata] said.

The company consulted Japanese composers of film scores. What Tabata and his six-member team came up with is a high-pitched sound reminiscent of the flying cars in “Blade Runner,” the 1982 film directed by Ridley Scott portraying his dystopian vision of 2019.

“We wanted something a bit different, something closer to the world of art,” Tabata said.