Survey: Should Hybrid Cars Have Bells?

Lloyd Alter
Living / Culture
June 10, 2008

Everett Meyer and Brian Bai, grad students at Stanford, solved a purported problem: the silence of hybrid cars, which, "unseen and unheard, could be the vehicular version of Jaws, only without the suspenseful background music. That's a hazard for pedestrians, especially blind people." So they added speakers and noise. (Video below the fold)

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