I heard this on Fox News LMAO!

[PriusOwner004]

I found this article which explains: http://wjz.com/local/local_story_039173947.html

Don't worry, neither the carmakers, nor the legislators agree that hybrids should be required to make noise.

[theblackbag]

Spokey dokeys anyone?

[PriusOwner004]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(blackbag @ Oct 4 2007, 02:58 AM) [snapback]521047[/snapback]</div>

Spokey dokeys anyone?
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LOL, I had to look that up in the dictionary. Good one!

[teyde]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(PriusOwner004 @ Oct 4 2007, 09:52 AM) [snapback]521046[/snapback]</div>

I found this article which explains: http://wjz.com/local/local_story_039173947.html

Don't worry, neither the carmakers, nor the legislators agree that hybrids should be required to make noise.
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Isn't adding sound to cars solving the wrong problem? I mean, the problem is to get the blind safely across the street, isn't it? There must be more solutions to that problem than just adding sound?

[skguh]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(PriusOwner004 @ Oct 4 2007, 02:52 AM) [snapback]521046[/snapback]</div>

I found this article which explains: http://wjz.com/local/local_story_039173947.html

Don't worry, neither the carmakers, nor the legislators agree that hybrids should be required to make noise.
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It's called a horn. If these are the same morons that decided that drive-through ATMs needed braille, I think there should be braille on the front bumpers!

[HappyPig]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(skguh @ Oct 4 2007, 09:30 AM) [snapback]521109[/snapback]</div>

If these are the same morons that decided that drive-through ATMs needed braille, I think there should be braille on the front bumpers!
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Enough with the knee-jerking. Quite often, the ATMs you see at the bank's drive-through are the same machines used in a building. And since blind people DO use these machines, it's not much of a mental jump (or maybe it is) to see how braille-equipped machines end up in a drive-through.

[hill]

If we all split the cost of a deck of playing cards, we can put em' in our spokes.
Next problem, please. :P

[alexstarfire]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(skguh @ Oct 4 2007, 09:30 AM) [snapback]521109[/snapback]</div>

It's called a horn.[/b]

Actually, it's called a seeing eye dog. Hell, even a regular person will do.

[daniel]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hill @ Oct 4 2007, 07:28 AM) [snapback]521138[/snapback]</div>

If we all split the cost of a deck of playing cards, we can put em' in our spokes.
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I like this idea.

I don't think we should pooh-pooh the issue of blind people crossing streets. At the very least, we need to be extra-careful when our cars are in electric mode. Blind people have a right to be out in public, and our cars are a technological innovation which introduce a condition that has not existed before (silent cars) and that many people are not yet used to.

Backing out of parking spaces in parking lots is a real issue. My Xebra has a back-up beeper which I can switch on or off, and I use it whenever I cannot see EVERYTHING anywhere around the rear of my car.

[bhaynnes]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(skguh @ Oct 4 2007, 06:30 AM) [snapback]521109[/snapback]</div>

It's called a horn. If these are the same morons that decided that drive-through ATMs needed braille, I think there should be braille on the front bumpers!
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Isn't that a hoot? I went through a drive in auto-teller last friday and looked and sure enough, it had braille instrucions. I thought to myself, "what kind of moron puts braille on a drive through device"? How many blind people are going to be pulling into that drive up auto-teller?