[nfbwatlk] Fw: clean cars and noise

[Lauren Merryfield]

Hi,
My sister and I used to do that with our tricycles when we were young.  We 
would have to replace bent cards, however.  Seems like they could put some 
kind of clicker sound on those cars.
thanks Lauren
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Jarvis" <carjar at olypen.com>
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Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Fw: clean cars and noise


> While it's not a total solution, one approach would be to tighten
> qualifications for obtaining a driver's license.
> A great many accidents occurring on our streets and highways are caused by
> folks who are not paying attention or people who should not be operating a
> motor vehicle.
> Rather than bending over backward to help marginal folks obtain driver's
> licenses, we need to take an approach that insists that driving is a
> privilage and only careful, responsible people will be granted this
> privilage.
> As for the automobile industry's reluctance to develop some warning sound
> on
> their new cars?  Well, when I was a kid we used to take a wooden clothes
> pin
> and a playing card and attach it to the wheel of our bikes.  It made an
> inexpensive, satisfying noise so everybody knew we were coming down the
> road.
>
> Carl Jarvis
>
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