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Enviro-nuts don’t care about blind people

True, I could have just as easily titled this post “Blind people want Earth to fry, so long as they get across the street safely.” But come on, why would I want to insult the blind? Have a heart, people! From Breitbart/AP:

Gas-electric hybrid vehicles, the status symbol for the environmentally conscientious, are coming under attack from a constituency that doesn’t drive: the blind.

Because hybrids make virtually no noise at slower speeds when they run solely on electric power, blind people say they pose a hazard to those who rely on their ears to determine whether it’s safe to cross the street or walk through a parking lot.

“I’m used to being able to get sound cues from my environment and negotiate accordingly. I hadn’t imagined there was anything I really wouldn’t be able to hear,” said Deborah Kent Stein, chairwoman of the National Federation of the Blind’s Committee on Automotive and Pedestrian Safety. “We did a test, and I discovered, to my great dismay, that I couldn’t hear it.”

Dude, that’s just surreal.

October 4, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | non-political