This summer I was walking along a campground road where there are no sidewalks. Suddenly, feeling a presence behind me, I looked back behind me,and suprise! there was a car driven by an elderly couple no less than 2 feet from my back.
Remember, that even when crossing the street and looking both ways, there may be curves that hide the sight of an approaching vehicle, but we can hear the engine coming, and the louder the noise the faster the car.
The lack of warning noise from electric cars present a real problem in my opinion.
My wife scared me to death when she pulled her hybrid into the garage just as I was getting out of my car...you can’t hear them coming. I would suggest equipping hybrid cars with continuous 120db sirens that will alert not only the blind but the hearing impaired as well.
can’t they put playing cards in the spokes? That worked for me as a kid.
I think they are too quiet. I was almost ran over by my son-in-law in a Prius backing out of our driveway, could not hear it. They need a beeber like the big trucks have when backing.
Put baseball cards so that they clatter against the spokes of the wheels. Worked when we were kids.
My kid was nearly hit by one in a parking lot. We were standing next to our car when the one next to us started backing up. Normally one uses the sound of a car as the cue to pull your tot out of the way. It’s disconcerting.
Require that all hybrids have spoked wheels...
... and include a deck of playing cards in all future sales.
Problem solved.
That’s true. I almost got nailed by a hybrid at a gas station.