Hybrids cars are too quiet?
When car companies came up with hybrid cars to reduce the reliance on petrol, we would think everyone in this world would applaud and pop champaign. Boy, are we wrong.
Petrol friendly electric hybrid cars are under fire for being too quiet.
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) based in the United States, believes electric hybrid cars to be too silent, and a possible threat to the safety of the visually impaired.
Hybrids are almost silent when running on electric power, something the NFB says is dangerous to the visually impaired. The committee conducted several tests, with visually impaired people instructed to signal when they were passed by a hybrid while standing in parking lots. The results were telling.
"People were making comments like, 'When are they going to start the test?' And it would turn out that the vehicle had already done two or three laps around the parking lot," according to Deborah Kent Stein, the NFB's chair of their Committee on Automotive and Pedestrian Safety.
The Association of International Auto Manufacturers Inc., an industry trade group, is looking into the issue. They, along with the Society of Automotive Engineers, are thinking of setting a minimum noise level for the hybrids.
Credits: Jarvis
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