‘Blind advocates raise concerns about silent vehicles’
June 24th, 2008From the Associated Press:
Advocates for people with visual impairments are urging that the government set minimum sound standards to keep new cars and trucks from being too quiet. They say silent gas-electric hybrid vehicles pose a safety hazard to people who are not able to see them.
‘For us, these cars are invisible,’ Deborah Kent Stein of the National Federation of the Blind told a hearing of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Washington.
The silent vehicles are already widespread, and are expected to become even more popular as gas prices rise. Industry officials said they hoped to begin research into noise emissions later this year.
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