{"id":530125,"date":"2010-04-16T17:45:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T21:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=43836"},"modified":"2010-04-16T17:45:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T21:45:15","slug":"nhtsa-talking-about-solution-for-quiet-hybrids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/530125","title":{"rendered":"NHTSA talking about solution for quiet hybrids."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blind-person-cross-here.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"blind-person-cross-here\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43857\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hybrids are great. They get wonderful mileage, are eco-friendly and help the weenie environmentalists feel good about themselves. They do however possess one very distinct downside that the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration is finally going to address. What is it you ask? Well, I&#8217;ll tell you&#8230; they&#8217;re quiet, like dead quiet. Now in most cases quiet is good. It relaxes you and helps you concentrate on things like driving. This stealthiness however is really beginning to piss off some communities, namely the American Foundation for the Blind and the National Federation of the Blind.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-43836\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/toyota_prius3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"toyota_prius\" width=\"500\" height=\"273\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43858\" \/><\/p>\n<p>David Strickland, the NHTSA administrator and master of the obvious said at the SAE World Congress on Wednesday: &#8220;A quieter fleet could potentially put pedestrians at risk, especially blind pedestrians&#8221; &#8211; gee David&#8230; why do you think that is? Now maybe it&#8217;s me, but if you&#8217;re blind, I would think that everything you do and experience is resonated to the old noodle through sound. If this is the case (and I think it is) than a silent car could be very detrimental to ones health. The NHTSA is now conducting research and spending money on an issue that can be solved by using common sense. They should put out a mandate stating that hybrids must have to emit some type of audible automotive sound so pedestrians know that a vehicle is actually approaching. It&#8217;s not rocket science guys&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/t0E81CZmkPZiDKsGbRnedsyadEU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/t0E81CZmkPZiDKsGbRnedsyadEU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/t0E81CZmkPZiDKsGbRnedsyadEU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/t0E81CZmkPZiDKsGbRnedsyadEU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hybrids are great. They get wonderful mileage, are eco-friendly and help the weenie environmentalists feel good about themselves. They do however possess one very distinct downside that the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration is finally going to address. What is it you ask? Well, I&#8217;ll tell you&#8230; they&#8217;re quiet, like dead quiet. Now in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}