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August 20, 2008
Decibel Impaired
California legislators find a problem, within a solution, that will require a new committee to resolve:
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- Electric and hybrid vehicles may be better for the environment, but the California Legislature says they're bad for the blind.
It has passed a bill to ensure that the vehicles make enough noise to be heard by visually impaired people about to cross a street.
The measure would establish a committee to study the issue and recommend ways the vehicles could make more noise.
My first concern was why California would allow blind people to walk in the streets, but I think it has something to do with all those crosswalks installed to make them feel good. Regardless, the ironic thing is that the technology to solve this problem already exists, within their own state:
The next question is; "What about the deaf?".... I'm thinking sub woofers.
August 20, 2008 by Chris | Permalink
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Those hybrids really can be disturbingly quiet. I have pretty good situational awareness, but I've had these things sneak up on me in a parking lot. I guess I now know what it'll feel like to be old. When that comes. In a couple of years.
Re: The video. People just love to outdo each other at being assholes.
Posted by: Marty | Aug 20, 2008 12:01:37 PM
What about living torsos? Being deprived of the senses of hearing, taste, smell, and and sight should be no bar to their constitutional right to cross streets safely! Clearly, we need all cars to come equipped with long, feather-tipped "ticklers" by which those whose only remaining sense is the tactile sense may be made aware of their encroachment.
Posted by: Ben | Aug 20, 2008 12:08:12 PM
Ben,
Don't make fun. I have a friend who's a living torso. His name is Mat. Thankfully there's a human torso support group, and he's met folks with the same condition. He especially likes to go swimming with his friend, Bob.
Posted by: Chris | Aug 20, 2008 12:18:37 PM
At least Bob can swim! Did you hear about their other group member, Dwayne (you know, the one with the harelip)? He died at the bottom of the bath tub! And poor, poor Art. Hung himself on a nail on a wall, he did...
Posted by: Ben | Aug 20, 2008 1:32:32 PM
If this devolves to the Consuelo joke again, I'm getting myself banned.
Posted by: Marty | Aug 20, 2008 1:36:28 PM
"Dwayne" took me a minute.
Mat has a girlfriend now. Consuelo.
Why do I get the feeling we've done this before?
Posted by: Chris | Aug 20, 2008 1:37:51 PM
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Posted by: Marty | Aug 20, 2008 1:39:40 PM
How does a living torso have a harelip, anyhow? Shoulda spotted that.
Posted by: Ben | Aug 20, 2008 3:34:49 PM
But if he's a "Dwayne", he might have a "hairlip"
Posted by: Marty | Aug 20, 2008 3:47:14 PM
I think that only works for Consuelo, if we're talking about the same thing, Marty.
Posted by: Ben | Aug 21, 2008 4:15:42 PM
