They had a few signs up indicating that you wouldn’t hear what hit you, but someone still walked out into the road while looking both ways, and caught themselves at the last second.

This *actually* is a problem. Is legislation the best recourse? Probably not, but these problems have been known for at least 12 years.

I do not have sympathy. Blindness is an evolutionary weakness which would correct itself through natural selection if we didn’t artificially sustain those who cannot sustain themselves. This is unnatural.

A woman had her foot run over by a car backing up and another where a blind guy barely avoided getting hit by a Prius and was only saved by his guide dog.

“Preliminary results of an ongoing study at the University of California-Riverside have indicated the cars pose some risk. The study found that hybrids operating at slow speeds must be 40 percent closer to pedestrians than combustion-engine vehicles before they make enough noise for their location to be detected.