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Yes, it can make hearing or noticing its approach harder.
Yes. Noise can mask other sounds and make traffic harder to perceive. Hearing ability and responses to noise vary between individuals; do not assume all older people react alike or that every sound negatively affects every pedestrian. Take extra care and do not assume you have been heard. Use the horn only in permitted situations, rather than to pressure a pedestrian.
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Yes, it can make hearing or noticing its approach harder.
No, noise never makes traffic harder to perceive.
Yes, but it affects every person identically.
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