[Quietcars] Passenger defeatable systems.

[michael townsend]

This seems like a possible idea.  However, Bob, if people carry these
devices, who's going to pay for them, how does one go about applying to
receive one, prove that they actually need one and who is going to carry out
the testing of such devices on a periodic basis to ensure that they are
working as hoped.  

Thanks.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: quietcars-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:quietcars-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Wilson
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 9:00 AM
To: quietcars at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Quietcars] Passenger defeatable systems.


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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