Arkansas Gazette - "Bell the Hybrid"

No I just called you on adding a rediculous requirement that a safety feature should not be added TO THE OUTSIDE of a car without data.

I guess I should rephrase my original question.

Why do blind people hate Prius drivers? Is it a conspiracy with the Big 3 to kill hybrids? I did see earlier posts that traditional auto manufactures were behind the issue. How did they buy off The National Federation For The Blind?

 

I believe the Prius risk is far greater to the Oil Lobby than to blind people. And that's probably the source of stuff like this. It's called negative advertising.

 

I'll let you find the transcript for me.

 

As noted earlier, the according to the NFB, the only solution is to make a hybrid (NOT an electric-only) make an ICE sound like it's idling when it's idling, make an ICE sound like it's accelerating when it's accelerating, and make an ICE sound like it's decelerating when it's decelerating. There is nothing about making a construction-equipment-like beeping sound when going down the road. Nothing is said about natural gas- or hydrogen-powered cars either. Just hybrids. And if we don't do something about this thousands will die!

As for the other assertions in the article, I think we would have heard about the charge that a hybrid has actually hit a blind person, knocked away their canes, or run over a blind person's foot. I might note, none of that strikes me as a high-speed incident. And I've never heard of such a situation that was entirely the driver's fault. Not even when I got hit 25 years ago while crossing a street.

These are the same folks that made the multi-story parking garage where I used to work put up braille numbers for the floors to the parking garage.

I'm diabetic. Why don't we make Krispy Kreme stop selling or advertising those tempting donuts?

 

Yes, Big Oil is paying me off.

But I just lost $0.50 by replying to you. I get $1.00 for every rational poster I can distract but I lose money for delaying a post from a ranting paranoid wacko who will make Prius owners look bad.

 

Ahhh, proof that they've been paid off in white canes.

You've certainly put me in my place with that little tidbit.

Maybe tomorrow you can tell me the one about Thermite and 9/11

 

Oh I can can see that you're intellectually challenged.

 

Don't get too worried about some of the replies. Current Prius owners understand that the only way to meet the requirements proposed by the NFB is to eliminate any vehicle not powered by an ICE. If you check other posts, you find not everyone in this thread now owns a Prius (even those he says he does).

 

The auto industry spends so much time, money, and effort to make their vehicles quieter...this is just too comical. I guess the hot-rodders are already doing their part for public safety.

 

Your first sentance is the very definition of a Rush Limbaugh debate. Efusco made a very well reasoned, and proved (by the actual facts - do your research) comment. And you liken him to somebody who does neither.

BALOOONNEEEYYY!!!!!

 

I just returned from speaking to a blind neighbor. It's disturbing, she doesn't want to be confined in her home because of these silent death machines.

How can you be so self centered as to terrorize our most vulnerable fellow human beings. Take the money you save in gas and invest in the technology that will make hybrids and the EVs that are the true future safe for everyone.

 

Oh, for heaven's sake, why don't you all just do what I do? I lean out of the driver's window and yell, "Hey you vision challenged (or age-challenged) individual! I'm in a sometimes quiet hybrid car, called a Prius. I'm stopped just __fill in the distance___feet from you and I promise to let you cross without striking you." Or, wait a minute. Sometimes I don't yell out and just do the prudent thing and drive defensively and with caution.

Easy peasy!

 

Just ignore Dave PH. He doesn't own a Prius and probably never will.

 

I did. I sold it after 2 months. I'll buy another hybrid or EV when they're road ready and not a danger to children and the disabled.

You really can't get any lower than attacking the blind and their advocacy groups.

Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. You are self centered and sick.

I will get involved on their side.

 

If your still pulling up the kid hitting the prius as support for your cause, then it sounds like you guys are promoting this type of message instead of thinking of the bigger issue:


also...

. If they're already stopping, then it should be safe to cross.