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Pedestrians are not 3 tons of steels that run you over. Bycicles have bells. On shared paths, pedestrians don't hear cyclists coming from behind, so you occasi
by turbinerneiter 7y ago
Pedestrians are not 3 tons of steels that run you over.
Bycicles have bells. On shared paths, pedestrians don't hear cyclists coming from behind, so you occasionally give them a ping.
- OscarCunningham 7y agoCars have horns. Note that I'm not advocating for adding noise to these things. I'm just trying to point out that there's a status-quo bias where we're willing to retain unnecessary noise but not to create it.
- multjoy 7y agoTurns out that by removing it, we’ve discovered that the noise is necessary. You only sound a horn if the driver thinks it is needed, whereas pedestrians & other vulnerable road users are making all sorts of judgements using audio clues that the drivers are completely unaware of.
- Youcandothis 7y agoI don't think noise is necessary. It's only that people are used to noise. I usually wear sound isolating earphones outdors, so I don't hear cars as much now. But to compensate for that I look more around. That's something everyone could learn. Exception is those that are blind, but I think they should be able to get some help from technology to warn them from cars.
- OscarCunningham 7y agoI think my preferred policy would be to mandate this noise for now and then slowly quieten it as people got used to quieter cars.