First California say that SUV are killing us all, not it's hybrids killing the blind.

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SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- Electric and hybrid vehicles may be better for the environment, but the California Legislature says they're bad for the blind.


It has passed a bill to ensure that the vehicles make enough noise to be heard by visually impaired people about to cross a street.


The measure would establish a committee to study the issue and recommend ways the vehicles could make more noise.


The state Department of Motor Vehicles says more than 300,000 of the vehicles are on state roads. Officials say they don't keep statistics on pedestrian accidents involving those vehicles.


The bill has been sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has not taken a position.

www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/20/quiet.cars.ap/index.html
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Holy crap California!!!

You Socialist pansies will regulate anything and everything....

First it was cars are to loud... not it's that they're to quite. MAKE UP YOUR MIND!

Maybe these morons from Oakland California can save the blind...

Woo, Woo


And this, my friends, is what comes of political correctness.

Californian: OMG BUSH IS THE PUPPET OF EVELBIGOIL AND HATES THE PLANET!!!

Auto Industry: ok, here are some hybrids and electric cars to relieve your environmental guilt (they're not really environmentally friendly, but do have reduced emmissions and are overpriced--which should also relieve your upper middle class guilt)

Government: ok we'll also give you a tax break if you buy this ****

Californian: OMG BUSH HATES BLIND PEOPLE! THESE THINGS ARE DANGEROUS! OH TEH NOES!
 
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I love California for it's land and geography but I hate it for the dumb asses that infest the place.
 
Actually, it's a very viable point.

Hybrids are VERY quiet. If you can't see what's coming, you have to go by ear.

Note: You are whining and complaining about the left whining and complaining.
 
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Hey come on people. The hybrids are dead silent while running on electrical power at low speed and for people who rely more on their ears than eyes Hybrids may pose a potential threat while walking.

I don't think that is funny or stupid at all.
 
sunb! said:
Hey come on people. The hybrids are dead silent while running on electrical power at low speed and for people who rely more on their ears than eyes Hybrids may pose a potential threat while walking.

I don't think that is funny or stupid at all.
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You do realise that a couple of people around here seem to think that if you do anything that isn't purely for your own benefit it is being "politically correct"

Of course it makes sense to spend the extra dollar to fix and eliminate this problem but that wont stop some trying to make it a political issue.
 
If some audible signal is decided upon, I just hope that it is not of the present piezo alarm variety. Those reversing beepers fitted to commercial vehicles here give me the screaming tom tits. They seem to be as loud 200 yards away as they are up close.

Our local milkman says that he would rather drive around the block than face the barrage of abuse he would receive if he should have to back up whilst delivering milk early in the morning.

What type of warning device should we use?
 
senojekips said:
If some audible signal is decided upon, I just hope that it is not of the present piezo alarm variety. Those reversing beepers fitted to commercial vehicles here give me the screaming tom tits. They seem to be as loud 200 yards away as they are up close.

Our local milkman says that he would rather drive around the block than face the barrage of abuse he would receive if he should have to back up whilst delivering milk early in the morning.

What type of warning device should we use?
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I imagine they will simply amplify the noise it already makes, unless of course it makes no noise in which case they will generate one more than likely similar to existing motor vehicle noises.
 
They should make it optional; do you want to sound like a truck, helicopter, or tank?

What about the standard car horn? Isn't that designed specifically to warn people that you're coming?
 
major liability said:
They should make it optional; do you want to sound like a truck, helicopter, or tank?

What about the standard car horn? Isn't that designed specifically to warn people that you're coming?
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My assumption is that they want a constant noise to perform the same function that a car's engine noise does currently (ie you can hear it coming and it doesn't rely on someone pushing a button aka a horn).
 
That's a good idea, as long as they don't make it any louder than current engines... though I admit I was looking forward to silent driving.
 
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