The correct headline should be "Boy runs out in front of car." The particular kind of car is irrelevant. Children have ran or rode their bicycles in front of my big, loud truck many times. I have never hit one, mostly because I am careful and I have been lucky. Less experienced drivers are not always very careful. And any driver can be unlucky.

This didn't happen because the car was silent. This happens because children sometimes do dumb things. Most adults watch out for the kids, to avoid harming them. But sometimes you can't see the kid until its too late to avoid them. And some adults are less careful than others.

The mother shouldn't let the kid play in the road. And, the mother surely shouldn't let the kid play in the road unsupervised. And, when a kid gets hurt, it isn't because of the type of car. It's because both the mother didn't teach the kid to stay out of the road, and because both the kid and the driver were not careful enough, and then the kid did something dumb.

Some politicians will want to pass a law requiring every vehicle to make a certain level of noise. If they do, we should each find out where our local politicians live. Then we should each get an air horn (aka, train horn) that can make far more than the required level of decibels, and use it whenever we drive past that politicians house at night. After all, there might be a kid hiding in the politicians front bushes, who might not know that a car is coming.