[nfbmi-talk] Quiet Cars

joe harcz Comcast joeharcz at comcast.net
Thu May 17 15:51:14 UTC 2012


What was that you said Fred? I couldn't hear you?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at att.net>
To: "Joe Sontag" <suncat0 at gmail.com>; "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing 
List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Quiet Cars


> Hi Joe,
>
> Isn't that fascinating!  Sighted people are always saying our hearing is 
> better because one sense compensates for the los of another.  Then, this 
> author implies superiority of sighted people's hearing.
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Fred
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> On May 17, 2012, at 1:13 AM, "Joe Sontag" <suncat0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Hybrids and electric cars are too quiet for the blind or even the fully 
>> sighted to hear them coming."
>> Oh boy, don't get me started.  Good article otherwise.
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcus Simmons" 
>> <marcussimmons at comcast.net>
>> To: "NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 9:46
>> Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Quiet Cars
>>
>>
>>> SHHHHHHHH
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at att.net>
>>> To: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Cc: "'George Wurtzel'" <gmwurtzel at gmail.com>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 11:02 PM
>>> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Quiet Cars
>>>
>>>
>>>> The Silent Killer
>>>>
>>>> Hybrids are so quiet that pedestrians never hear them coming. Now 
>>>> automakers
>>>> are
>>>>
>>>> racing to make the car of the future sound like the gas guzzlers of 
>>>> old.
>>>>
>>>> By
>>>>
>>>> Paul Collins
>>>>
>>>> |
>>>>
>>>> Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2012, at 7:07 AM ET
>>>>
>>>> A Toyota Prius car.
>>>>
>>>> The quiet engine of hybrid and electric cars at low speeds poses a risk 
>>>> to
>>>> pedestrians
>
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