Deaf people can look both ways and not have to hear the car. Their argument is that blind people can't look both ways so they should be able to hear the cars.
Honestly though, if I was blind I wouldn't go out walking around without something (seeing eye dog or some sort of smart device) to tell me that a car is coming. You shouldn't have to hold back progress (or make the cars produce an artificial sound) because blind people can't hear the cars. Make a device that blind people can use to detect the cars.
Christ, this entire thread of comments is rife with a total lack of understanding of Natural Selection and the effects of social groups
Darwinism isn't simple "the strong will survive." It is "those best able to adapt survive." They sound similar, but are very different in practice.
Take the example of the mammoth. Strong, yet rigid in its adaptability, therefore it became extinct. Or take the example of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals - which is the weaker of the two and which still exists. Could this perhaps be due to a superior ability to adapt? Social groups are an integral part of this adaptation. Without it humans may not have survived as long as our branch of homonids has.
The very fact that this sort of act is being discussed demonstrates that immense ability to adapt - that we can forsee what may come and can prepare for it.
first off, hybrids are only silent for less than 5 seconds when accelerating from a stop. the rest of the time the gas engine is humming loud enough for anyone to hear.
secondly, blind people are generally smarter than your average pedestrian, so you don't need to worry about them getting hit by the cars. It's the people wearing iPods cranked at full volume.
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natural selection. look both ways before crossing the street, sherlock
that's pretty hard when you're blind
Seriously... I think deaf people have been getting along just fine.
@dan
exactly, natural selection. when that beastly prius runs them over they are taken out of the gene pool
The irony in this is that we probably won't be able to adapt to global warming, so we'd all be dead anyway without these hybrid/electric vehicles.
@Daniel
Deaf people can look both ways and not have to hear the car.
Their argument is that blind people can't look both ways so they should be able to hear the cars.
Honestly though, if I was blind I wouldn't go out walking around without something (seeing eye dog or some sort of smart device) to tell me that a car is coming. You shouldn't have to hold back progress (or make the cars produce an artificial sound) because blind people can't hear the cars. Make a device that blind people can use to detect the cars.
Christ, this entire thread of comments is rife with a total lack of understanding of Natural Selection and the effects of social groups
Darwinism isn't simple "the strong will survive." It is "those best able to adapt survive." They sound similar, but are very different in practice.
Take the example of the mammoth. Strong, yet rigid in its adaptability, therefore it became extinct. Or take the example of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals - which is the weaker of the two and which still exists. Could this perhaps be due to a superior ability to adapt? Social groups are an integral part of this adaptation. Without it humans may not have survived as long as our branch of homonids has.
The very fact that this sort of act is being discussed demonstrates that immense ability to adapt - that we can forsee what may come and can prepare for it.
Bravo, government. +1,000,000
first off, hybrids are only silent for less than 5 seconds when accelerating from a stop. the rest of the time the gas engine is humming loud enough for anyone to hear.
secondly, blind people are generally smarter than your average pedestrian, so you don't need to worry about them getting hit by the cars. It's the people wearing iPods cranked at full volume.