Honda Civic Hybrid
Hybrid cars. Of course someone had to find SOMETHING wrong with them. Of course, it isn’t like we don’t have real problems like war and global warming to deal with but somehow those real ones are twisted and turned against the educated public. But getting back to hybrids… who in their right mind would go out of their way to find some lame excuse to attack something that’s meant to save all our sorry asses? I think we all know who the culprit is so I really don’t need to bitch about it. Enough bitching has been done to power 500 atomic bombs yet nothing has been done about it (take for example our last election!). So I go to the Yahoo! news website and to my amazement I find an article featured on the front page titled Hybrid Cars Pose Risk to Blind, Visually Impaired. Woah, slow down there. Not just cars, but HYBRIDS? It’s like saying that it isn’t guns that kill people, or even that people kill people, but that Michael Richards who lives on 23rd Street and works at McDonalds kills people — with an AK47. Now, their point (one and only) is clearly stated. Blind people can’t see the cars coming, and the hybrids, being quieter than say, a turbo charged SUV, can be hard to detect by these blind people. I’m guessing the high death toll of blind people being hit by Hybrid cars must have triggered this scare. Wait… no? What? Just as many blind people are killed by regular cars than they are by these killer hybrids….????? WHAT??? IT CAN’T BE!!! This can’t be true… my dreams of running down blind people with my ultra quiet… GAS GUZZLING LUXURY SEDAN? WHAT? So let me get this straight — quiet cars have existed for a while now. Of course, most of them could only be owned by rich white men in the form of these luxury cars but now that the enviornmentally concious crazies have an oportunity to partake in this mass blind people bowling bonanza people start to get upset! OR… is it something else? Could it be that maybe, just maybe, a certain group of people… say… gas companies and those who benefit from their revenue could be getting a little upset that some might refuse to not only be victims of price gauging, but just know better. This planet isn’t going to save itself. And just for your information, the reason cars ARE quiet is because that’s what consumers want.
There’s a whole business involved in making cars quieter! Now, if Hybrids are forced to noise up, then it is only fair to completely destroy the rest of this industry by forcing other car companies to make their cars annoying and irritatingly noisy.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Drivers-Want-Quiet-Cars&id=507220
http://www.vre.org/service/quiet-cars.htm
And instead of making it hard on hybrids, how about investing some money into making the streets blind friendly. Haven’t seen many blind people get killed in Japan. I usually listen to know if a car is behind me and even if the car has a quiet engine I can definitely hear the tires rolling around on the asphalt. Install some sort of warning system for blind people (such as indentations in the road to make sound when a car is approaching) or better yet someone can take this opportunity and invent a radar that can detect high speed movement from any direction and will warn the blind person. Stop using disabled people to attack something you don’t like. Grow up and stop being so dramatic.
Oops! I got something on my trunk!
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Global warming is a joke. Hybrids are a joke.
And just to spite the hippie liberal morons that think global warming is real, I just removed a major part of my emissions control system from my vehicle.