Posted on 06/14/2010 11:55:18 AM PDT by presidio9
U.S. Sen. John Kerry is trying to make sure hybrid and electric cars aren't too quiet.
Kerry is pushing a proposal aimed at helping protect blind pedestrians who rely on their hearing to safely cross streets.
The proposal would authorize the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to establish a minimum sound requirement for hybrid and electric vehicles to alert pedestrians to their approach.
The Senate Commerce Committee has passed the plan, which Kerry first introduced last year.
Kerry pointed to a study that he said found hybrid electric
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Vuvuzelas could be used I suppose.
40mph = 59 feet per second...
60mph = 88 feet per second...
Is that the reason for the long face, Jean Francois?
Hybrids should cry wee wee wee all the way home.
Maybe mandate boom boxes for hybrids? About the only thing nice about the hybrids is how quiet they are. You would think the “urban metrosexuals” would like things quieter?
If they haven’t eliminated those idiotic horns four years from now, this will be the last World Cup I ever watch. I give it a chace every four years, and I played for five years when I was a kid, so, yes, I do understand the sport. And it it’s just not at intersting as baseball, or football, or basketball, or hockey. Or golf. Ot auto racing. Or lacrosse. Or boxing. Or dogsledding. Or fishing. Or hot oil wrestling.
Retards blowing those horns at halftime sound like they are announcing to the world that they are sloppy drunk.
You beat me to it. It makes great sense for the world cup’s most
irritating sound to be linked to our most irritating senator.
Hybrids should cry wee wee wee all the way home.
I was thinking that the tax and cap and screw America laws go through, they could build in a loud “ka-ching” sound...
Kerry’s proposal does nothing for the blind and DEAF. How insensitive. John Kerry hates people who are deaf and blind.
**Maybe mandate boom boxes for hybrids? **
boxes that only blast LIMBAUGH!!!
and BTW.. YO, LURCH.. AlBOre gonna be mad at you for attacking his wonderfully expensive and equally worthless HYBRIDS!
Just the kind of bold leadership we expect.
Oh no, blind pedestrians? How do we accommodate them?
Got it....We should immediately make all intersections play separate audio tunes for red lights and separate tunes for green lights. This can be done.
For red lights I suggest something scary, with skidding sounds in the back ground....Leader of the Pack, maybe...
For green lights how about that ditty by Patula Clark...Go now? Kiss me something or other...Walking down the street, do-wa-ditty?
Correction: he knows something about how to be a creep.
That is why I loathe soccer. I can take 30 seconds of the bubuzelas.
why don’t they just mandate the cane mfg to install motion detectors for cars in the canes....
2014.
Why would he care? He takes the Heinz Ketchup Jet across the world at his leisure.
The Democrat doesey doe. Jerk ‘em one way - then jerk ‘em the other.
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