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Stanford students think PANDA is the answer to silent EVs/hybrids

Laws and regulations to force hybrid and pure electric car makers develops vehicles that emit a noise to alert blind people to their presence are under consideration. If EVs will one day need to beep or purr for pedestrian safety, what might the ideal system sound like? Two students at Stanford think they know, and it's called PANDA. The Pedestrian Awareness Noise-emitting Device and Application is a speaker system that was described by school media as a low noise that "wasn't a car engine and was a bit closer to a muted jet engine, with some ... Read more →

Blind advocacy group gets a theme song for louder hybrids/EVs Sebastian Blanco

You're probably familiar with the recent problems with quiet and silent vehicles and people with less-than-perfect sight. The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) has been on the case for a while, ...

Stanford students think PANDA is the answer to silent EVs/hybrids 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Laws and regulations to force hybrid and pure electric car makers develops vehicles that emit a noise to alert blind people to their presence are under consideration. If EVs will one day need to beep or purr for pedestrian safety, what might the ideal system sound like? Two students at Stanford ...

Blind advocacy group gets a theme song for louder hybrids/EVs 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

You're probably familiar with the recent problems with quiet and silent vehicles and people with less-than-perfect sight. The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) has been on the case for a while, but there is one angle of their advocacy I didn't know about until Harper's printed the lyrics. The ...


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