Add noise to your Hybrid - Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act,

Guess we'll have to have an outside audio system. I'm thinking like a blown big block on methanol as it leaves the line type of sound :rockon:



Serious though, I can understand a backup type of alarm. It'd be pretty annoying to have a slow moving forward sounding noise when your cruising down the boulevard with the windows down on a Saturday night

Mike

 

So whenever my ICE kicks off the noisemaker will sound? So if I'm cruising to a stoplight I'll be making some music? The only advantage of that I see is if I'm driving next to another Prius, I could find out who's driving more efficiently.

Nawwww jk, I hate the idea.

 

They don't require you to add anything to your existing car. It's new cars that must -COME- with the device. Be aware, it is possible some automakers will not have to actually -add- anything! All they have to do is put in cheaper parts that make more noise. Maybe the cost of the cars will drop!

Heck, with Pearl I'll just have to trip the coolant transfer pump!

But I have to admit, I get a kick out of Americans and their hate of government rules!

 

So that means we (current owners) will have the quietest car ever, in American history? Cool!!!

Why? Some laws just suck.

 

This seems appropriate about now

Mike

 

If our cars have to make noise, then we should atleast be able to decide which noise we want.

I want something like this, so that I can drive by the politicians houses that cam up with this stupid idea.

 

Why stop at noise makers? What if your deaf too? Where does it end?

Craig

 

If you're deaf you can see the car.

 

How about some sort of proximity zapper so when someone steps out in front of your Prius, you hit the button and they get a nice zap in the nice person and get out of the way

Mike

 

Can my noisemaker be a speaker under the car emitting sounds like flowmasters on a Mustang?

 

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Guess you didn't interpret the "Deaf too" suggesting deaf AND blind.

Craig

 

what do you think the boston tea party was all about?

 

stupid, just stupid.

 

no, it wasn't stupid, it was taxation without representation.

 

Yes, hooray for the nanny state.

 

They need to apply to some technology to this and stop with stupidity. They should make the vehicle emit an RF signal that get stronger as the vehicle approaches like a geiger counter and make the blind have a receiver that makes the noise for them only. Cane mounted of course. Many cars are very quiet. The way the government makes laws is annoying -I can sit in my car with the windows rolled up and have to listen to my windows rattle from some nice person clowns radio blaring two cars down - nothing wrong with that though - it takes dead bodies to make safety laws-decency laws need to be put through too.

 

i am cheap.don't cost anything to roll the windows down and turn up the radio while in the wal mart parking lot.that way they can hear me and enjoy my bluegrass music.

 

You could play Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer if you have your antlers on your windows

Mike

 

Do you pompous fools realize that you sound like 4-year olds?
Qwitcherbellyaching over some nonsense that is only an internet rumor and find something real to worry about.
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