Prius too quiet? New proposal may end the silence.

[patsparks]

Does anyone have a 2 inch tall silhouette of a man with a cane?

[dogfriend]

Originally Posted by Bill Merchant

Fox and news in the same sentence is an oxymoron.

Or, perhaps, news for morons.

[ny biker]

Originally Posted by alam99

Personally, I think having quieter cars is a sign that technological progress is being made. Reducing noise pollution as well as air pollution is a good thing.

Seriously. They should force all vehicles to be quiet, not the other way around.

[daniel]

Okay, here's the solution: All cars should be required to have a small radio transmitter on a dedicated pedestrian-alert frequency. Range to be set according to what studies determine is optimal. Pedestrians (blind or otherwise) could carry a receiver which would alert them to an approaching car. Doppler could determine if the car is approaching, receding, or moving crosswise/standing still. This would be good for kids and absent-minded people as well as the blind.

[BIGGDOGG]

They need to introduce a Bill that states that Blind people shouldn't be allowed to cross streets by themselves. Isn't that what Seeing eye dogs are for (among other things)? Or why doesn't Toyota just give us the beefier horn they should have in the first place?

[Sufferin' Prius Envy]

From the looks of this article,

Bus-pedestrian crash is third in 9 months | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register

city buses should be outfitted with flashing lights and a klaxon which unload all sorts of unholy hell as they approach intersections.

Nine ton buses are apparently too small and quiet for both blind and sighted pedestrians . . . at least in Des Moines.

And if you think nine ton buses are a silent, deadly hazard . . . watch out for "Quiet Zone" train crossings!

UP: Federal Railroad Administration's Train Horn & Quiet Zone Rule

Those silent but deadly 270,000 pound locomotives are no longer required to blow their horns when approaching crossings which already have flashing lights, bells, and crossing arms if they are in a designated "Quiet Zone."

QUIET????? Bhaaaahaaaaahhaaaa! We humans just love assaulting ourselves with noise in the guise of 'safety.'

[Michou]

Originally Posted by alam99

To put a different spin on it, since no one has yet been injured because of a quiet car, shouldn't law makers focus on limiting the horsepower or top speed of automobiles since high-speed impacts HAVE caused injuries?.

They already have, they are called fuel governors.

[FBear]

I have never seen so many people with so little to do and so much time on their hands that they have time to think of such stupid and useless laws. But just remember these are the same people that gave money to study cow flatulence. Maybe they should spend some more time on figuring out how to save Social Security without privatization or raising the tax on our wages through the roof (maybe they could get rid of the cap on SS tax of the first $87k of salary) that should go a long way to solve the problem.

[SparrowHawk60]

Must be way to much mercury in the crab cakes these dopes have been eating. There's definitively some brain damaged with these bill writers.

Cheap and easy solution: the old wedding deal, cans tied to the back bumper! Or the bill writer...

[dogfriend]

Originally Posted by SparrowHawk60

Cheap and easy solution: the old wedding deal, cans tied to the back bumper!

I suggested this the last time this topic came up:

Install the towing ring in the front bumper and hang a cowbell from it. Everybody needs more cowbell.