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Originally Posted by skyking
#8 has a grain of truth to it.
My brother (he has a hybrid Ford) was walking the trail the other day and his sister in law took advantage of her stealth Prius approach mode to sneak up on him and yell "Boo". He swears it took a few years off his life  |
All joking aside, I've been looking for accident data that supports this claim and the evidence is terribly thin. The Prius-pedestrian, fatal accident rate remains half of the USA rate per mile. It turns out that SUVs and pickup trucks have a disproportionate, higher rate of pedestrian accidents. Regardless, the only proposed solution is to make hybrids just as noisy as ordinary vehicles which means:
- Making hybrids as noisy as other cars makes them just as deadly.
It is crazy to not make them safer than other cars.
Bob Wilson