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Back to Latest Solar NewsLATEST SOLAR NEWSJapan Mulls Making Hybrid Cars Louder
Japan , the home of hybrid cars like the Toyota Prius that run near-silent in their electric battery mode, may introduce requirements to use noise-making devices to let pedestrians – and blind people in particular – know they are coming. “We have received opinions from automobile users and vision-impaired people that they feel hybrid vehicles are dangerous,” the news agency Agence France-Presse quoted a Japanese transport ministry official as saying in a report on Friday. The ministry had put together a panel of academics, advocates for sight-impaired people, consumers, police and representatives from the car industry to explore whether taking measures like installing noise-making devices would be necessary. The panel had “decided to consider introducing a sound-making function” during a meeting on Thursday, the agency reported. In its future recommendations, the panel would need to balance safety concerns with the benefits of noise reduction from new fleets of hybrid vehicles compared to vehicles running exclusively on combustion engines, the report said. The panel would present a report at the end of the year and the ministry then would consider whether new legislation is necessary, it said. |
