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Making Hybrids Noisy
The federal government is considering legislation to set noise levels for hybrid cars. If passed, automakers will be mandated to add external speakers on all hybrid vehicles.
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Making Hybrids Noisy
A proposed law, HR 5734, mandates noise making generators on quiet vehicles.
The National Federation for the Blind has been lobbying congress for noise making generators on hybrid-electric cars, claiming that the noise will allow their members to better hear them. If passed, automakers will be mandated to add external speakers on all hybrid vehicles.
You can read more about the issue from this article published by AP / ABC News. NoiseOFF was cited in the article:
"To further expose millions of people to excessive noise pollution by making vehicles artificially loud is neither logical nor practical nor in the public interest," said Richard Tur, founder of NoiseOFF, a group that raises awareness of noise pollution.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) held a public meeting to bring together government policymakers, industry representatives and public interest groups on the issue of noise making generators on quiet cars including hybrids, all-electric vehicles and quiet internal combustion engine vehicles.
Representatives from the National Federation for the Blind testified for mandating noise. They also provided grant money to a start-up company to design and build external speakers on hybrid automobiles.
Millions of people who live near busy roadways, thoroughfares, intersections and parking lots are adversely affected by vehicle noise at all hours of the day and night.
Hybrids reduce ambient street and highway noise. The reason why people purchase hybrids, among other reasons, is because they are quiet vehicles.
There are other viable solutions, including wireless audible receivers that can alert blind pedestrians to oncoming vehicle traffic.
Written comments may be submitted to NHTSA and must be received no later than August 1, 2008.
NHTSA Headquarters
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
West Building
Washington, DC 20590
The Federal Register Docket is: NHTSA-2008-0108. The federal government is considering legislation to set noise levels for hybrid cars. If passed, automakers will be mandated to add e... more -
Stop the noise!
When noise pollution is not making us sick and anxious, it is literally killing us. How do we turn it off?
June 25, 2008 | Henry Bean can't stand the sound of burglar alarms. He hates back-up beepers on trucks and bristles when garbage rigs grind up their fetid loads in the middle of the night, the noise reverberating off Manhattan's buildings. But Bean harbors special resentment for the oblivious car owners whose vehicles blare false alarms. "It bothers me that their cars can shout in my ear, not stop shouting, and I can't do anything about it," he says. "My pride can't handle it. I can't exist if I don't fight back in some way, however pathetically or ineffectually."
By Katharine Mieszkowski;
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/25/noise_poll... When noise pollution is not making us sick and anxious, it is literally killing us. How do we turn it off? ... more -
Idaho Laws Would Not Ride Well in The City
http://www.examiner.com/blogs-103-Fault_Lines
Accidents do happen — like the time I was having breakfast with a San Francisco police commander and forgot to turn my phone off of vibrate. When it went off, I jumped and we were both so startled I thought my nervous friend in blue might shoot me.
And accidents especially seem to happen to bicyclists in the Bay Area, because every time there is a collision, a story follows fanning the public outrage.
Oh, and did I mention that in almost every story, it was the car driver who is said to be at fault? In this part of the world, pedal power equates with political power.
So I have to admit, I was a bit taken aback to hear that bicycle advocates were actually the ones generating an idea that would allow them to legally blow past stop signs and perhaps use a little more caution at red lights, which were to be seen by them as stop signs.
Please, read the whole Story by By Ken Garcia, San Francisco Examiner http://www.examiner.com/blogs-103-Fault_Lines ... more -
Have You Seen This Airplane Before?
This issue have been happening for quite a while. Here We are enjoying the weekend and the Sun is shining, the Sky is blue and the Weather is just great on the North Bay. But not for too long as you start to hear this heavy humming noisy in the sky. I am sure some of you have seen this aircraft pulling a banner around the bay blasting everyone with noise back and forth. The noise he makes is on purpose to attract people's attention to the banner he's pulling. But does people pay any attention to it? I would not mind an aircraft pulling a banner if it was not shooting everyone with noise that it is enough to make your brain vibrate. Sure I have my exceptions because he is also a source of air pollution in the skies. So the question is:
-What can City Hall do to stop this person from taking over our airspace with these harmful humming noise?
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* San Francisco City Hall (3) This issue have been happening for quite a while. Here We are enjoying the weekend and the Sun is shining, the Sky is blue and the Wea... more -
Have You Ever Seen This Airplane Before?
This issue have been happening for quite a while. Here We are enjoying the weekend and the Sun is shining, the Sky is blue and the Weather is just great on the North Bay. But not for too long as you start to hear this heavy humming noisy in the sky. I am sure some of you have seen this aircraft pulling a banner around the bay blasting everyone with noise back and forth. The noise he makes is on purpose to attract people's attention to the banner he's pulling. But does people pay any attention to it? I would not mind an aircraft pulling a banner if it was not shooting everyone with noise that it is enough to make your brain vibrate. Sure I have my exceptions because he is also a source of air pollution in the skies. So the question is:
-What can City Hall do to stop this person from taking over our airspace with these harmful humming noise?
Important Note: I posted this video because I want the population to take control of our City airspace and not let it on the hands of an organization that does not care about our health or well-being. FAA should be limited to control and see if these aircraft are following safe routes that does not interfere with City Life or Living. Real events of daily acoustic abuse and free will from many pilots and traffic controllers have been proved that they do not have enough responsibility to understand acoustic issues that negatively affects the neighborhoods population quality of life. The irresponsibility goes both ways! From them that violate our acoustic rights and from us that do not make the effort to take control of the airspace that belongs to us. This issue have been happening for quite a while. Here We are enjoying the weekend and the Sun is shining, the Sky is blue and the Wea... more -
City-size tract of Amazon forest cleared in April
This is just a horrible horrible thing to see done to the Amazon forest. Makes me so mad.
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Oakland PD's Harleys have a new roar?
Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross;
Monday, June 9, 2008
Over in Oakland they like it loud - so loud that all 45 of the Police Department's Harley-Davidson motorcycles have been equipped with shiny new tailpipes, at a cost of $500 apiece, to rev up their roar.
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Ha! The waist of tax payers money in the wrong direction!!! Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross; Monday, June 9, 2008 ... more -
Dennis Kucinish Introduces Bush Impeachment Resolution
Mon Jun 9, 8:17 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a former Democratic presidential contender, said Monday he wants the House to consider a resolution to impeach President Bush.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi consistently has said impeachment was "off the table."
Kucinich, D-Ohio, read his proposed impeachment language in a floor speech. He contended Bush deceived the nation and violated his oath of office in leading the country into the Iraq war.
Kucinich introduced a resolution last year to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. That resolution was killed, but only after Republicans initially voted in favor of taking up the measure to force a debate.
Kucinich won 50 percent of the vote in a five-way House Democratic primary in March, beating back critics who said he ignored business at home to travel the country in his quest to be president.
http://kucinich.house.gov/Issues/Issue/?IssueID=3750
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/kucinich_impeachment;_ylt=As... Mon Jun 9, 8:17 PM ET ... more -
What the CDFA does not want you to hear... Video 1 of 13.
On Thursday, May 8th, 2008 at 7pm a San Francisco Town Hall Meeting was held in the Conservatory of Flowers of Golden Gate Park. A panel of speakers was present to inform the public why we need to OPPOSE the aerial spraying of California against the misclassifid LBAM (Light Brown Apple Moth). The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is doing everything in its power to squash our voices and efforts. There is big money involved in this for them as they stand to lose trade partners and hence their lies and absolute insistence at spraying us. But we will NOT be silenced!
This is the first in a series of thirteen videos. This video features Town Hall organizer and concerned mother Kelly McMenimen and San Francisco District 11 Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval.
For more information on the spray, go here:
http://stopthespraysf.org
http://playnotspray.org/
http://www.cassonline.org/
http://www.dontspraycalifornia.org/
http://ccc.stopthespray.org/
http://www.veganreader.com/
http://1hope.org/chkmate.htm
http://www.myspace.com/testlbamspray
http://www.pesticidewatch.org/
http://www.panna.org/resources/lbam
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/
http://www.hopefortruth.com/
http://www.lbamspray.com/
http://www.stopthespray.org/ On Thursday, May 8th, 2008 at 7pm a San Francisco Town Hall Meeting was held in the Conservatory of Flowers of Golden Gate Park. A pan... more
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