A guide dog owner says some electric vehicles (EVs) are so quiet she struggles to hear them approaching, leaving her feeling vulnerable at road crossings.
Maisy McAdam, 29, from Swindon, Wiltshire, fears she could unknowingly walk into danger with her guide dog Janey because some EVs are so difficult to detect.
The charity Guide Dogs is calling for changes to rules governing the warning sounds fitted to EVs, arguing they are not loud enough and cut out too quickly.
The Department for Transport (DfT) said requirements for electric vehicle sounds were being kept "under review" as technology evolves.
McAdam, who described her vision as being like looking through a tunnel of "frosted glass", said navigating around electric vehicles can be a "scary" and "alarming" experience.
"When you're a team like a guide dog partnership, you bounce off one another and you work together on everything.
If I'm shocked and alarmed, so is she," said McAdam, whose guide dog Janey is three years old.
"Guide dogs walk in straight lines until you tell them to go left or right or they'll walk around an obstacle.
"So when an electric vehicle comes it really disrupts her working pattern and upsets her.
"If it's really quiet and I don't know it's there I could potentially tell Janey to keep walking when it's not safe to do so, putting us both at risk," she continued.
McAdam said crossings and busy car parks can be particularly challenging.
"Many of them [the vehicles] don't have sound fitted and even when they do, sometimes when you're in a car park with....
