Comments on: Electric cars a danger to blind people – noise simulators on way

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By: DavidB

DavidB — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:12:21 +0000

I normally don’t agree with much of what Clarkson has to say, but he’s spot on here. Dave, at low speeds that majority of sound made by a car STILL comes from the tires. Perhaps if one is cruising about at 25MPH with the engine revved in first gear that might not be the case, but practically the ONLY time a car engine makes more noise than the tires is sitting at a traffic light or stop sign, and a not moving car isn’t a threat to hit a blind pedestrian is it?

By: Roberto DePaschoal

Roberto DePaschoal — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:04:59 +0000

Why not playing some soft and pleasant musical recording from EV speakers, instead of a simulation of a nostalgic noise composed by Detroit Diesel, Cummins or Caterpillar?

It would be much more appreciated by the visual impaired pedestrians.

By: Bob Wilson

Bob Wilson — Mon, 11 May 2009 07:27:10 +0000

We found only 6 Prius-pedestrian accidents in 2007 out of 5,432 accidents involving pedestrians, 0.11%. In the USA, over 500,000 Prius have been sold and are rolling on the highways. This is not a risk.

We found these six accidents searching through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Fatality Accident Reporting System (FARS):

ST mm/dd/yyyy Vehicles Prius Mode
CA 1/5/2007 1 2004
CA 1/24/2007 1 2006
FL 1/26/2007 1 2007
FL 9/12/2007 3 2006
TX 10/18/2007 2 2005
AZ 10/21/2007 2 2005

It turns out the Florida, 9/12/2007 accident report is fairly current:
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2007/sep/14/140023/me-friends-family-mourn-21/news-breaking/

There is no way a noise maker on an Interstate highway in the rain would have made one bit of difference. Yet this is what the fools who advocate noise makers would have you believe.

In fact, we have a first person report by the Prius driver about this incident:
http://priuschat.com/forums/prius-main-forum/37814-prius-vs-pedestrian-car-saved-my-life-9.html#post492974

Jesus once said,”And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”

In the USA, 4,700 pedestrians die each year but instead of adopting the Euro practice of rating cars on pedestrian accident safety; following the SAAB pedestrian radar approach; or the BMW infrared pedestrian detector, this ‘tinkle’ this ‘little bell’ of bill seeks to make fake engine noises. It is hard to tell who is the 3 year old child pursing their lips together and saying “burrrm, burrrm” fake engine noises.

In aviation, we say safety regulations are written in blood. This legislation is written in bovine fecal matter … useless!

Bob Wilson