http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/ Autoblog Comments for The silent danger of hybrids - real or imagined? http://www.autoblog.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.autoblog.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/
]]>Mar 15th 2006 3:08PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/People should be paying attention to where they are walking. If they get run over by a silent hybrid then it must be natural selection because they are too damn stupid to live.]]>Mar 15th 2006 3:09PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/Mar 15th 2006 3:11PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/Mar 15th 2006 3:14PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/
Gr... shouldn't be "working" and commenting on Autoblog.]]>Mar 15th 2006 3:16PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/]]>Mar 15th 2006 3:16PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/Mar 15th 2006 3:16PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/
Hummingbirds should be eradicated because they have very sharp beeks, move REALLY quickly and make no noise! YIKES.

Then you die anyway.

Oh, and the Bush Administration wants to remind all of us to remember to be afraid.]]>Mar 15th 2006 3:16PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/
"For Mother Earth"]]>Mar 15th 2006 3:16PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/Mar 15th 2006 3:17PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/Mar 15th 2006 3:17PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/
God bless 'em for that.

The pedestrian, in CA, always has the right of way, but is ticketed for jaywalking. As long as the driver of the Hybrid is within the law (driving defensively), and the pedestrians are within the law (obeying crosswalks), there should be no conflict.]]>Mar 15th 2006 3:19PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/
So, which squeeky wheel do we grease here? The IDIOTS who are too blind (not actual blind people) to see something that large moving towards them or the backlash of decreased "mpg" by running an electrical fan on an electrical car?

Has anyone done a study on the number of golfers mowed down by golf carts???]]>Mar 15th 2006 3:20PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/
Solutions? Well if we ignore this and people get hit alot we will end up with ever uglier cars designed with front airbags and big pillow bumpers.

Maybe ALL cars could eventually be fitted with low-level audible warnings - not the annoying beep-beep of garbage trucks and reversing Toyotas - but a more imaginative tone thats focused in the direction its needed. The technology is currently nearing public release to focus speaker sounds in precisely the direction of the listener. Combine that with sensors that track pedestrian movements, and boom problem solved.

]]>Mar 15th 2006 3:22PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/BTW, I'm not the same person as #3,#4, my spelling skill are a lot worse.. ;-)
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She seemed to stop at the four way stop. So I proceeded as anyone would. They she apparently started moving (later claiming that the sun was in her eyes and she never saw me). Naturally I dove out of the way in time but since I didn't actually hear the car start moving it was much much closer than it would have been normally.

So yes this can be an issue.]]>Mar 15th 2006 3:30PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/
Actually I read an article that a company who developed an electric motercycle found that it was extremely dangerous, on a account of no noise (less than a hybrid on battery since there's less wind noise and tire crunch), being a a much smaller item in your periphrial vision, yet faster than a standard bicycle. Probaly even harder to see than a bike because the rider is not peddalling and swaying back and forth, so it's a relatively static image by copmparison. Anyway they decided to add some fake engine noise just for safety reasons. They didn't say exactly what sound they ended up with, but it'd be pretty cool if all electric cars had to sound like Jetson's cars.

Or if you could buy custom engine-tones, so your car might have 'American V-8' or 'Genuine Mugen Tuner' and mine might sport 'Steam locomotive choo-choo with matching steam whistle horn-tone']]>Mar 15th 2006 3:31PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/Mar 15th 2006 3:34PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/http://www.autoblog.com/2006/03/15/the-silent-danger-of-hybrids-real-or-imagined/
if you cant hear those coming, or see a prius with a 24" lift kit coming down the road at you, you have no business trying to cross the street (if you are blind, with a seeing eye dog, the dog will both see and hear it coming, so no worries)

and what happened to 'look both ways before you cross the street'... come on now]]>Mar 15th 2006 3:35PM