Around here when the bikes hear a car approaching they bunch up in a pack and take up the whole lane. And just this summer I've seen three near-collisions cause by bicyclists blowing thru stop signs.
There are jerks on both sides when it comes to bikes/cars sharing the road. The noise issue for electric cars has been long known; I'm surprised Toyota did not anticipate that in their design. They are hardly the first electric car to be designed, produced, sold, or driven. Allan On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:14 -0400, "Rich Thomas" <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > A group of us was cycling a couple weeks ago, a Pious on battery passed > us too closely (dumbass driver too, imagine that), and no one heard it. > It was sorta scary and surprising, this thing just materialized right > next to us, very close. It was kind of an Ohsh** moment for all of us. > Usually whoever is in the back of the pack hears a car and hollers so we > get over to the right as far as we can, with this thing if someone had > moved over a bit to dodge something on the road, we all probably would > have been knocked down and run over. I wonder if one could sue Toyota > for something like that, since they are being sued for everything else > now -- knowing that being so quiet is dangerous, yet they have done > nothing about it. > > I seem to recall that there was some harsh invective hurled at the > driver, along with certain hand gestures, not that it did any good. > > --R > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
