Pedestrians are not 3 tons of steels that run you over.
Bycicles have bells. On shared paths, pedestrians don't hear cyclists coming from behind, so you occasionally give them a ping.
Bycicles have bells. On shared paths, pedestrians don't hear cyclists coming from behind, so you occasionally give them a ping.
Note that I'm not advocating for adding noise to these things. I'm just trying to point out that there's a status-quo bias where we're willing to retain unnecessary noise but not to create it.
You only sound a horn if the driver thinks it is needed, whereas pedestrians & other vulnerable road users are making all sorts of judgements using audio clues that the drivers are completely unaware of.