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(B) the cost and feasibility of each method, including the cost and feasibility of equipping each individual [delete: pedestrian] and vehicle owner with any technology tailored to their need [delete: necessary] to receive safety information; and
(C) which method assures the best safety outcome for cost [delete: least reliance] by blind and other pedestrians and operators upon technology they must possess when traveling and thereby provides the greatest amount of independence and opportunity for spontaneous travel for these pedestrians.
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Leave in pedestrian and don't add vehicle owner or operators. If these are included I will place a money bet that the solution will be to require a minimum noise level from vehicles. Unless the study says that they already make enough noise, that will mean including a noise generator on hybrids. Providing a device to the relative handful of blind people that are effected should be cheaper that requiring a redesign of every hybrid model made.
The whole idea is fatally flawed because there is nothing wrong with vehicles, including hybrids, as designed. If they leave well enough alone this problem will solve itself just like in the early eighties. In the 70's vehicles made more engine & road noise. Sometime in the early eighties the engines and tires got quieter. You still don't. Pedestrians had to change what I considered to be a car that was too close to toping the hill. Pedestrians can learn the new sound today just like they did back then.
This is a non issue that the Congress critter in question is trying to make into one. The chance that you will be a pedestrian killed by an automobile is 1 in more than 54000.