Calif. says green cars need more noise pollution

[wmenorr67]

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Aug19/0,4670,ODDQuietCars,00.html

SACRAMENTO, Calif.   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.

The state Department of Motor Vehicles says more than 300,000 of the vehicles are on state roads. Officials say they don't keep statistics on pedestrian accidents involving those vehicles.

The bill has been sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has not taken a position.

Just ban the damn things or make crossing the street blind against the law.  Would be cheaper and easier.  And make less people unhappy.

[Boomhauer]

The bastards just can't ever be happy, can they?

 

[S. Williamson]

http://www.deerwhistle.com/

[wmenorr67]

http://www.deerwhistle.com/

That isn't even right.

[BobR]

More Cowbell!

bob

[Perd Hapley]

baseball cards in the spokes.  Unlike Fruity Oaty Bar, they will be mandatory.   

[280plus]

It's Kali, shouldn't they be thinking about things like natural selection?  Typical, only get on the bus when it benefits you. 

 

[Umber]

Yeah.  But what are the Kali politicians going to do to help those people who are blind and deaf?? 

I want answers and I want them now.

Umber

[Firethorn]

That isn't even right.

Wouldn't meet the requirements either.  At higher speed the vehicle is going to be making enough noise on it's own.  It's the 'up to 20 mph' where many hybrids don't have the engine on that's the issue.

All you hear, maybe, is the rolling of the tires.  A lot of people, not just blind ones, depend on their ears more than eyes to determine traffic around them.

[SAK]

20mph is pretty survivable 

But in all seriousness, it WOULD be interesting to see how often this problem occurs.  But I don't think any new silly law is needed, particularly not one that forces quiet cars to become louder 

[wmenorr67]

20mph is pretty survivable 

But in all seriousness, it WOULD be interesting to see how often this problem occurs.  But I don't think any new silly law is needed, particularly not one that forces quiet cars to become louder 

It is Kalifornia.

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[41magsnub]

I propose Cali require loud rap music from each car.

[Firethorn]

20mph is pretty survivable 

Not to mention that the driver should be looking where he's going

But in all seriousness, it WOULD be interesting to see how often this problem occurs.  But I don't think any new silly law is needed, particularly not one that forces quiet cars to become louder 

I figure it's been perceived as a problem because of a large number of 'near misses' where somebody's shocked by seeing/noticing the car later than they normally would, or stepping in front of the car not paying attention and the car driver having to slam his brakes.

They then go 'there outa be some noise', and it being cali, the next thought is to make a law to make sure there's some noise.

[Gowen]

I propose Cali require loud rap music from each car.

That bill has not passed yet?  Just about every car I hear from kali sounds like that already.

[280plus]

Just have them get one of those a-ooga horns and then sneak up on the blind people and at just the right moment when they least expect it, let them have it. Then they'll need a govt agency to deal with all the neurotic blind people. 

[Tallpine]

they'll need a govt agency to deal with all the neurotic blind people

I thought they were all in the state legislature

 

[Perd Hapley]

Residents: Plant worse than a Wal-Mart
Dispute: Tensions heat up between neighbors, RPM.

By Matt Assad | Of The Morning Call
    August 17, 2008

Walt Neidlinger spent years trying to keep a Wal-Mart-anchored shopping complex from being built near his Wind Gap home.

The traffic would have been suffocating for their little community, neighbors argued, so when the massive retailer and its partners packed up their plans and left Plainfield Township last year, Neidlinger was ecstatic. He figured he'd wait for the next plan to come along and remembers thinking, ''What could be worse than Wal-Mart?''

Over the past year, Neidlinger says, he's gotten an answer: RPM Recycling -- the metal-shredding plant on the same land -- causes daily noise that sounds like a freight train rumbling down the street, and frequent explosions that shake his walls.

And you can thank Rush Limbaugh and his staff for digging that up.   
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-3rpm.6547307aug17,0,5038048.story

[Antibubba]

Because our representatives have nothing better to do, like pass a budget...

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

Because our representatives have nothing better to do, like pass a budget...

You want them to pass a budget?

 

 

[Scout26]

Residents: Plant worse than a Wal-Mart
Dispute: Tensions heat up between neighbors, RPM.

By Matt Assad | Of The Morning Call
    August 17, 2008

Walt Neidlinger spent years trying to keep a Wal-Mart-anchored shopping complex from being built near his Wind Gap home.

The traffic would have been suffocating for their little community, neighbors argued, so when the massive retailer and its partners packed up their plans and left Plainfield Township last year, Neidlinger was ecstatic. He figured he'd wait for the next plan to come along and remembers thinking, ''What could be worse than Wal-Mart?''

Over the past year, Neidlinger says, he's gotten an answer: RPM Recycling -- the metal-shredding plant on the same land -- causes daily noise that sounds like a freight train rumbling down the street, and frequent explosions that shake his walls.

I love it when the Universe/Kharma gives someone a well deserved FU. 

[freakazoid]

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[Antibubba]

Quote from: Antibubba on August 21, 2008, 12:53:00 AM
Because our representatives have nothing better to do, like pass a budget...

You want them to pass a budget?

I didn't say that.  But making hybrids noisier ranks lower in importance than voting on the the Official State Dance.*
















*The Hustle.**














**OK, not really.  But it ought to be.

[MrRezister]

I remember reading about some obscure law from when cars were just getting popular that was supposed to make car owners shoot bottlerockets down the road in front of them to warn everyone that they were coming.  Too bad fireworks are probably illegal in kali.

[MechAg94]

Just make them all use mud grip tires so they will make plenty of road noise.