On the Prius is that the *internal* beeper (ie it sounds *inside* the car)? That is imho the right place - it is the driver that should be aware that he/she needs to go carefully and give way to *every* other type of traffic while backing up. Not annoy every bystander (and wake nightshift people sleeping in the whole neighborhood) as an attempt of blame-shifting from driver attention to "go-out-of-my-way-because-I-cannot-bother-to-look".
Full disclosure: I was almost mowed down by an angry young woman, backing up out of a parking slot at a local bank while I rode my bike across said parking lot annex driveway, to reach the same bank. She never realized that she should give way and drove like it. When I called her on not looking whether she could safely back out, she yelled that I should not be so nasty to her. Yeah, right. Not sure that a beeper in her car would have made her look any better though. Traffic school might be in order, but she had pulled out before I even realized to look at her license plate. Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless Corporation http://www.proxim.com Email: [email protected] Private: http://www.cvandewater.info Skype: cor_van_de_water Tel: +1 408 383 7626 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Davidson Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 7:14 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Silent ICEs luxury cars My brother got a brand new Prius, and the first thing I noticed is a quite loud backup alarm. I like that I can turn the noise off on my 2011 Leaf. Nissan should have kept that option. Dave On Jul 3, 2013 7:20 AM, "Paul Wujek" <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, there's no need to limit this kind of law to only one kind of vehicle. > > On 13-07-02 08:31 PM, Bill Dube wrote: > >> Simply extent the law to encompass _all_ cars. Require that _all_ cars >> >> Require that _all_ cars have a minimum dB level, including the many >> nearly silent luxury cars. >> >> There are plenty of nearly silent ICE luxury cars. It will kill the >> legislation if you extend it to those nearly silent luxury models. >> I can hear the howls of protest (many dBs) that will erupt when you put >> the stupid noisemakers on the high-end Benz, Caddy's, etc. >> >> Bill D >> ______________________________**_________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/**index.html#usub<http://www.evdl.org/help/inde x.html#usub> >> http://lists.evdl.org/**listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org<http://lists.evdl.org/l istinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org> >> For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/ >> **group/NEDRA <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA>) >> >> >> > -- > *Paul Wujek* <[email protected]> > ______________________________**_________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/**index.html#usub<http://www.evdl.org/help/inde x.html#usub> > http://lists.evdl.org/**listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org<http://lists.evdl.org/l istinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org> > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/* > *group/NEDRA <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA>) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130704/6159 922f/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
