Saturday, January 3, 2009

Bright Ideas - Environment - Can You Hear My Prius Now? - NYTimes.com

Bright Ideas - Environment - Can You Hear My Prius Now? - NYTimes.com

The relative quiet of the Prius and other electic vehicles seems wonderful until you think about how this quiet makes them invisible to those who see with their ears. My eyes are fine, but I, too, have to admit to being taken by surprise several times by electrics when I have been walking by the road. Here's a clever technological solution to this problem, in development by two college students.

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