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Jeanine Botta
Brooklyn, NY
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Jeanine commented on the petition |Five years ago, I moved to a house on a quiet street in a residential neighborhood. I loved to work in front of the open window, and at night I slept with the windows open. Once in a while, I would hear a short horn blast. I always assumed someone entering or exiting their car had accidentally leaned on their horn. But over the years, the short horn blasts occurred more frequently until I finally realized what they were. Now you hear short horn blasts day and night, from one end of the block to the other, through the block, from a block and a half away, in every room in the house. Some people “relock” and check their cars several times through the night. This summer someone started testing a “panic alarm” through the night, waking up people who’d previously been able to sleep through the noise. It isn’t possible to keep the windows open anymore, and it has become necessary to use white noise machines. As someone on an online forum wrote, it feels like an episode of the Twilight Zone. After seeing the ad for the Chevy Cruze app, I started speaking with noise activists and researchers. I was surprised to find out that people were only addressing this issue locally. This is not a local issue, and this is not an issue that should have to be legislated. If the auto industry is as committed to green issues as it claims to be, the industry needs to recognize that this technology is the antithesis of innovation.
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