Yep, a Prius running slowly on battery power is silent enough that people tend to just walk right in front of you since they can't hear it coming...but also mak

Yep, a Prius running slowly on battery power is silent enough that people tend to just walk right in front of you since they can't hear it coming...but also makes it easy to sneak up on someone and hit them with the horn for some entertainment value, gotten quite a few friends (and jaywalkers) like that. I was talking with a blind guy a while back about the beeping crosswalk things and he was saying he had to quit walking to the corner store because the intersection didn't beep and he almost got run over too many times since he had a hard time figuring out which direction he was able to walk by listening to the car noises alone which near silent cars would only exacerbate. Probably be easier to make all the crosswalks beep instead of forcing cars to make unnecessary noise pollution but until that time...