 | Seven and a half (the half being a maiming). |
 | 12 and a smallish one with big feet. |
 | "Twelve I hear twelve from the lady with the crazy grin. Do I have thirteen? Going once at twelve..." |
 | Many (all?) new cars are sold with RF transmitted horns (short range, < 50ft?), perhaps all electric cars should broadcast a low hum at that frequency, and blind people can have a little receiver on their lapels
(Perhaps this should be in HB?) |
 | This is a bogus risk: cars are dangerous for blind people, period. If blind people take care to cross only at traffuic lights (as they should), and drivers take care to follow road rules and watch out for pedestrians (as they should), then blind people will be at no more risk than they are today. |
 | worldgineer wrote on Feb 21, '07, edited on Feb 21, '07 If it's really an issue, it's trivial to add sound. This could be anything from playing a recorded engine rumble from a grill mounted speaker to not being able to turn the stereo down past 7 (ok, maybe not). I say we require them all to play ice cream truck music.
Of course, I don't think hybrids are the problem. Deaf people generally have very good hearing. It's just all of the damn noisy non-hybrids on the road drown out the hybrid noise. Maybe there should be a maximum noise level for vehicles. |
 | Peter, of course blind people should take care, of course drivers should take care, but in both cases they don't, so it's not a bogus risk. Blind people tend to rely on hearing traffic, drivers tend not to expect people to step off the kerb in front of them, so - absent changes in behaviour - more blind people will be killed in that precise scenario. |
| Can guide (seeing eye) dogs not see cars? |
| worldgineer wrote on Feb 21, '07, edited on Feb 21, '07 (falls out of chair) As would I. (goes to find out if my office switched to decaf without telling me)
Blind people. It's the blind people that have good hearing. Lousy eyesight, though. |
 | The logic doesn't add up - if the percentage of blind pedestrians is x% and the percentage of injured pedestrians is y% - it doesn't necessarily follow that y/x% of injured pedestrians are blind (even if blind people are over-represented in the pedestrian population).
Or to put it another way, if I was blind, I would be a lot more careful crossing the road than I am now, hybrids or no hybrids. |
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Can guide (seeing eye) dogs not see cars? 
