To the editor: It’s about time somebody developed a countermeasure to the self-absorption of drivers (“If you don’t hear the siren, police are sure you’ll feel the Rumbler,” Aug. 10).
All of the auto producers have carried out by creating what the article calls “aural bliss” is enable drivers to play their very own sound techniques with out aural “interference” from exterior, and within the course of make themselves oblivious to what’s taking place on the highway round them. Driving carries with it a duty to concentrate on one’s environment; my very own habits are usually not solely to drive with the hold forth, but additionally to interact in a self-entertaining monologue about the entire bone-headed actions that I observe in different drivers.
I’ve misplaced depend of the variety of instances I’ve seen folks enter an intersection even when an emergency automobile is approaching on the cross road. If I can hear that siren from a block away, so ought to everybody else — until, in fact, they’ve shut themselves off from the world with their acoustically insulated journey.
For those who can’t deal with driving with out making the within of your automotive soundproof towards the surface, you must flip in your license and cease driving. You’re placing everybody in danger — not solely the primary responders, but additionally the remainder of the folks you share the highway with.
Kymberleigh Richards, Van Nuys
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To the editor: L.A. has sufficient “rumbles” already, and this has already confirmed to be a problematic answer.
Legislators ought to enact guidelines to make use of trendy electronics to stop these life-threatening collisions. Require all our automobile sound techniques to have a built-in “code 3” scanner. When it detects a specifically coded sign coming from an emergency automobile, then it may shut off any sounds and as an alternative emit an emergency automobile sound.
I suggest that constituents recommend this idea to their legislators. Then folks with a vastly increased degree of experience in electronics and radio than I’ve can element and polish this.
Scott Cline, Glendale
