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AVAs1
- pluralplural of AVA
AVAS2
- abbreviationacronymcountableuncountableautomotiveAcronym of acoustic vehicle alerting system: a system in an electric vehicle that generates artificial driving sounds alerting pedestrians and other road users of the vehicle's presence.
The coming Audi E-tron GT, for example, has control units that remix the sound effects based on the car’s speed or the position of the accelerator pedal. Also fitted to the Audi is an AVAS — an acoustic vehicle alerting system, required to alert pedestrians that an electric car is close by.
2021 February 4, Stephen Williams, “E.V.s Force Carmakers to Reinvent the Wheel, and Brakes, and Mirrors …”, in The New York Times
Avas3
- countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of AVAS.
Tony Bowen, of Brigade Electronics, a firm that spent three years developing a “quiet vehicle sounder”, said permissible frequencies and modulation under the regulation make it clear that the Avas should mimic an internal combustion engine.
2019 July 1, Matthew Weaver, “Futuristic sounds to make electric buses safer hit wrong note”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2021
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