{"id":4683,"date":"2010-04-16T12:31:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2010-04-18T12:32:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T16:32:21","slug":"nhtsa-chief-hybrids-endanger-pedestrians-national-review-04-16-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/nhtsa-chief-hybrids-endanger-pedestrians-national-review-04-16-10","title":{"rendered":"NHTSA Chief: Hybrids Endanger Pedestrians (National Review, 04.16.10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Detroit \u2014 The $85 billion the auto industry is spending on hybrids and other \u201cclean\u201d technologies to meet draconian, new federal auto mpg standards won\u2019t make the planet any safer, scientists say \u2014 but it will put more pedestrians at risk.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Quiet electrics and hybrids \u201ccould potentially put pedestrians at risk, especially blind pedestrians,\u201d NHTSA Chief David Strickland told the Society of Automotive Engineers&#8217; annual convention in Detroit Thursday.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>\u201cStrickland said that data from 12 states shows that hybrid electric vehicles do have a significantly higher incidence rate of pedestrian crashes than internal combustion engines for certain maneuvers \u2014 like slowing or stopping, backing up, entering or leaving a parking space, and making a turn.\u201d<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Having mandated an electrics market to protect us from climate change, Washington will now regulate to protect us from electrics. The NHTSA chief says the agency needs to determine \u201chow we might require vehicles to emit a base level of sound at low speeds to provide some level of identification to pedestrians that a vehicle is approaching.\u201d<\/P><br \/>\n<P>We can\u2019t wait for OSHA\u2019s mandated back-up alarms on construction equipment becoming standard on Priuses. Beep, beep, beep.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit \u2014 The $85 billion the auto industry is spending on hybrids and other \u201cclean\u201d technologies to meet draconian, new federal auto mpg standards won\u2019t make the planet any safer, scientists say \u2014 but it will put more pedestrians at risk. Quiet electrics and hybrids \u201ccould potentially put pedestrians at risk, especially blind pedestrians,\u201d NHTSA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4684,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions\/4684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}