Has anyone noticed that this alleged safety feature simply removes by yet one more step the responsibility of the operator of the motor vehicle to be aware of his surroundings? If there's a pedestrian ahead who does not look and does not hear the motor vehicle approaching, it is the driver's responsibility to make note of this.
Oh, it's okay that the pedestrian stepped off the curb and I killed him. I have a noisemaker on my EV. The media calls it an accident, further removing my responsibility, because everyone know that accidents happen. If it can be predicted or if it can be avoided, it's not an accident, it's a crash. Pickup truck kills pedestrian. Driver calls it an accident, no charges are filed. He should not be owning a pickup truck that kills people. One rarely sees a newspaper article that reads that a pickup truck driver killed a pedestrian. Put the responsibility back in the driver's seat. -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/52M-yr-Quiet-Electrified-cars-alert-sound-rules-by-2019-09-tp4684467p4684492.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
