New law against quiet cars
12-18-2010, 09:53 AM
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Is it April 1st already?
So, the next thing is, all bikers need to constantly ring their bells and other pedestrians are required to whistle while on public streets?
12-18-2010, 10:27 AM
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pure ridiculous...... a case of law makers have nothing better to do.....
12-20-2010, 12:03 PM
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I will say I was in a parking lot at Lowes and started to cross over to where my car was parked and one of those things whooshed by. Scared the shit outta me.
12-21-2010, 06:32 PM
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Give them all studded tires and make all bicyclists put a baseball cards on their spokes. Now we only need a solution for the Little Rascals scooters.
12-22-2010, 01:53 PM
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I have to say, on many occasions, I've observed a visually impaired gentleman crossing a busy intersection by himself with only the aid of his cain, close to my home. I can't imagine how disastrous it would be if he wasn't able to hear a an electric vehicle coming and decided to step onto the street and get hit.
A lot of us here on the forum are looking for the perfect sporty sounding exhaust (some even obnoxiously loud) for our E60's - why should we care if there is a law mandating a certain level of noise coming from a hybrid vehicle - even if only for the protection of visually impaired people?
A lot of us here on the forum are looking for the perfect sporty sounding exhaust (some even obnoxiously loud) for our E60's - why should we care if there is a law mandating a certain level of noise coming from a hybrid vehicle - even if only for the protection of visually impaired people?