Ericbecky does GOOD!

Again, I will repeat my observations: At 35mph, on most roads, the tires make more noise than an ICE engine at a constant velocity. During all the years that I have been a cyclist, if an ICE car is going 60mph (at constant velocity), it will be too late by the time you hear it. You must always look over your shoulder before moving to the left. As a result of both of these facts combined, a hybrid is no more dangerous nor quiet than an ICE, while traveling at constant velocity. Now for the parking lot ... there have been many times that I have been walking across a parking lot and I don't hear an ICE vehicle until it is only five or ten feet away from me. Modern-day ICE engines can be VERY quiet, especially when brand new.
BOTTOM-LINE: if an EV is going slow, they should be watching out for you. If the vehicle is going faster, the tires will produce just as much road noise as an ICE vehicle.

BUT, ABOVE ALL, IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE DRIVER TO NOT RUN OVER PEDESTRIANS!!!

 

Maybe stoplights can be fitted with these receivers also, so that they actually know when a car has been sitting there for five minutes! lol.
Maybe my home security system can be fitted with a receiver, so I know if someone pulls into my driveway at 3am. But don't plan to be sneeky and stealth as you creep into a restricted area in your stealth EV, because they will know you are there. haha. (but for us law-abiding citizens, we would actually benefit ... so I'm all for it!)
Maybe the drive-through at the local fast-food restaurant can be fitted with detectors also.

 

Using Bluetooth to track everything:
Engineers Use Bluetooth to Track Travel Times - Mobiledia

 

This idea would be good, not just for hybrids and EVs, but for all cars, and it would be good for blind people, deaf people, and kids. (Deaf people would have a vibrator rather than a buzzer, of course.) It's not just blind people who sometimes don't notice a car coming.

Also, as cars are built more and more out of plastics and fiberglass, the transmitter would allow traffic sensors at stoplights to recognize their presence. Also small scooters. Are traffic sensors able to detect them now?

Then doppler technology would allow for automatic speeding tickets. Libertarians will hate this, but getting traffic speeds back to legal would save a lot of lives.

 

Can it be used to shock people who are so busy gabbing on cell phones that they step into traffic without noticing that they have a red light and there are cars bearing down on them?

 

We had 3 people killed in this area by two seperate incidents in the past two weeks by a really, really quite vehicle.......a pickup truck. And the people killed had their eyesite.

 

Pickup trucks are much more likely to kill someone in an accident than cars, especially people outside of the pickup truck.

I would argue that pickup trucks and SUVs pose a much larger threat to deaf people because of how deadly they are in pedestrian accidents.

 

Who's Ericbecky?

Don't answer. I had to google Ericbecky to find out. He's the Eric Powers in the article. Ericbecky is his tag name.

 

Thats my point. We had a 92 Toyota Camry that was so quite at idle that you could not hear it. Many times I had the attendant at the toll booth ask me if I had turned my car off. I personally think any LAW to require cars or trucks to make noise is STUPID! Just my opinion.