[Quietcars] Passenger defeatable systems.

[Robert Wilson]

Hi Mike,

I think there is a misunderstanding:

> From: mhingson at sbcglobal.net
> To: quietcars at nfbnet.org
> Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 14:27:55 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Quietcars] Passenger defeatable systems.
> 
> Bob and all,
> 
> Frankly you need to begin looking at this situation from the stand point of
> a blind person who wishes to be part of society.  For example, are you going
> to really propose that specific classes of individuals carry a wireless
> device to detect the approach of a quiet car? . . .

It isn't a receiver but a transmitter that works similar to the "panic button" on the key rings of the vast majority of cars. In your travels, you may have heard a regular, machine like "beep beep beep" that quickly ends, somewhat randomly in or around parking lots. Often this is the owner who has forgotten where they parked their car. So they push the "panic" button on their keyfob and the receiver in the car "beeps" the horn and flashes the lights. But "panic" beeps the horn at full volume.

The alert transmitter has no need for a button, it can send a signal just by being carried. There is no need for a full-throated horn beep from the receiving cars but something like the Volt, a modulated horn. Parked cars would not need to respond, just those that are turned on and in gear. The goal is every car is the receiver and any at risk pedestrian, blind, wheel chair bound, elderly, and very young, pre-school, would or could by their presence let the nearly universal vehicle receivers alert that there is an at-risk pedestrian in the area. It is noise on demand by those who need it when they need it. It amplifies what the white-cane means to sighted drivers, something society already acknowledges as a valuable identifier.

Bob Wilson
 		 	   		  
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