Survey: Should Hybrid Cars Have Bells?
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 06.10.08
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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