[nfb-talk] David the rocket scientist

[T. Joseph Carter]

In Eugene they have these articulated buses with rear engines.  The engine
is so far away from the front of the bus that the front of the bus makes a
little "bing" sound periodically in and outside of the bus when it is
moving below a certain speed.  There's no reason a car would ever need to
make this noise inside the cabin, and there's no reason for this to be
louder than you can hear it if you're near enough to the vehicle that you
face some potential risk.

If a car is moving faster than about 20 miles per hour, it doesn't matter
if it's totally silent, you'll hear the sound of tires on pavement.
Slower than that, you need the car to make some noise so that good tires
on smooth roads aren't virtually silent.  It's that simple, and I'd be
happy to repeat that idea to anyone who wants to listen.  In fact, I don't
mind repeating it to people who absolutely don't want to listen too.
*grin*

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:22:24AM -0500, Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E] wrote:
> David;
> Sounds like you would be a great one to be on the electronic car group.
> We need someone knowledgeable with macanics and who could give them some
> good advice so us blind do not get killed.  Many a time, in my parking
> lot at home, I have not heard a car until it was almost parallel to me.
> I stay along the parking spots or on the sidewalk, but that is hard when
> you are shoveling out your own car or going to the trash.  
> We need you.
> Terry Powers
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: T. Joseph Carter [mailto:tjcarter at bluecherry.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:24 PM
> To: NFB Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [nfb-talk] David the rocket scientist
> 
> So David, you went from designing rockets, rovers, and the F-117-A
> (which
> is one very cool bird, BTW) to working on public transit?  Can you tell
> me
> if all of your vast experience doing the seemingly impossible is going
> to
> get us more deployment of next stop technology so we don't have to try
> and
> figure out that "BRFFFFWFFF" means "Broadway"?
> 
> Just trying to lighten the mood a little.  *grin*
> 
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