[Mt-blind] LIsten to Story on NFB & Quiet Cars

[dmgina]

Wow,
I couldn't hear the car at all.
Has anyone been able to hear it while on the street?
I know if there was an electric car next to the cars we know now, I wouldn't 
hear it at all.


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Burke" <burke.dall at gmail.com>
To: <mt-blind at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:51 PM
Subject: [Mt-blind] LIsten to Story on NFB & Quiet Cars


> Hi Everyone,
>
> Last Thursday Dr. Fred Schroeder of the NFB was on National Public
> Radio's All Things Considered.  He was talking about the NFB's efforts
> to work with quiet car manufacturers to make new electric hybrids
> safer for blind pedestrians.  They are so quiet that you really can't
> hear them coming.
>
> Here's the link to the story:
>
> Fred, et al -
>
> Below is the link to the page which introduces the story  and where
> you can find a link to listen to the story.
>
> On that page are also links to "related" stories.  Among these are a
> story from December with reporter Joe Shapiro talking to Blind
> Paper-Money Spender Jim Gashel about the NFB's stance in opposition to
> the lawsuit regarding tactile currency.
>
> There is another link there, tooo, to a commentary by Stephen Kuusistu
> on nearly being hit by a bus in New York City.  As I am told, this
> commentary followed directly on the quiet car story with Fred.
> Kuusistu's story isn't as bad as it sounds -- he talks about the wind
> at a certain corner and how it can obscures traffic noise.
>
> To the introductory page:
> http://thin.npr.org/s.php?sId=7555520&rId=2&x=1
> Dan
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