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The hearing impaired don't benefit from noisier vehicles unless they're very loud and you can "hear" the vibrations through your feet or in your chest.

Visually impaired pedestrians can still be protected using the same technology used to protect motorcyclists from cars in the Dakar race. The motorcyclists have an audible alert system that warns them of a car coming up behind them — fast. The car carries a transmitter that triggers the alert.

Let's keep the silent cars and equip them with forward-facing directional transmitters. The visually impaired can carry a tiny receiver that will warn them of an approaching vehicle. Heck, that receiver can be fancy and even indicate distance and speed.

It saddens me when politicians are so far out of touch with technology that they don't know that a solution to this problem has existed for years.