Plan would make hybrids noisy to protect blind

[Maurice Johnson]

I think my answers to #11 and 12 got lost in cyberspace in an earlier post.
Lineslinger, common misperception. Sight gives us 70% of our daily decision making stimuli. When it's gone,the blind listen more acutely for cues from around them. Nothing changes in the actual make-up of the ear. A good example is when we close our eyes to listen intently to music, or to a complicated explanation to us of a subject.

fsstnotch, it's not to get them driving licenses, but to help them understand the audible cues from street traffic, and to build mobility confidence. I chair a Gov transportation ideas committee here which deals with solutions for assisting the physically and sensory impaired to get about independantly.