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Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians
HockeyPuck writes "When I was a kid, playing with my matchbox cars, I used to say 'VROOOM VROOOM' to pretend my toy cars had big engines in them. Well it seems that Toyota has decided to do the same thing with the Prius by optionally installing, in Japan, external speakers to alert pedestrians of oncoming Priuses."
So... You're admitting to it, right?
Isn't that what the horn is for?
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I always found that one of the great things about the Prius was how quite it was, but I guess with as many idiots out there not paying attention a little audio warning is needed. Now all we have to do is hope the RIAA doesn't have a copyright on the noise...
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. " -Voltaire
"ATTENTION PEDESTRIANS! This vehicle is accelerating uncontrollably while an elderly man panics in the drivers seat! Please make way!"
"His name was James Damore."
How long until these speakers are modded to sound like a Tardis?
They need to add the sounds of hooves and the cracking of whips too, for those of us not used to these newfangled horseless carriages...
Just when you think quiet electric cars are going to help diminish the noise pollution problem, they go and do this.
I'm so going to mod this to replace the motor sound with the sound of a playing card stuck in a bicycle wheel.
Is the default recording "Pretentious Asshole Coming Through"
Complete with a "BOV Valve"
http://www.akamoto.co.uk/dump-valve.asp
I want one that plays a recording of Mr. T shouting "Ah pity the po foo' don't get out mah way!"
Automobiles are 508 compliant!
It needs to made the Knight Rider / Cylon noise with optional light.
There was a campaign a while ago where people could suggest advertisement plots for some car brands. Some guy sent something like this in:
Scene: Blind 9 year old girl crossing the street.
Camera alternates between showing the closeup of the girl and showing the empty road.
Screen goes black and in a short while there is a loud noise as if someone was hit by a car.
The following appears on screen: "New Audi type foo. Very fast. Very quiet."
The guy didn't hear back about his plot suggestion for some reason.
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The speakers go "Ring-dingy-dingy", right?. But, no, I guess that woulf be for Civics.
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"Move ovel you wankel!!"
ASSSSSSSShole coming through.
...that sounds like it would be the most annoying fucking thing ever.
Now give me that hacksaw, and I'll go cut additional 12" off the exhaust of my Harley...
Has anyone got a link to a story of a pedestrian being hit by a hybrid car because they didn't hear it?
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rediculous.
Pick your Engine sound:
1) Default Camcord
2) Italian Sports Car
3) Half ton Truck
4) Harley Davidson Motorcycle
5) Tank
6) Horse and Buggy
7) Monty Python
8) Ice Cream Truck
9) VW anything
10) F1
11) Flubber
12)...
Tokyo (downtown/high streets) is probably the loudest city in the world. Nobody will hear mingy, tiny speakers.
-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--JLHr9rqGA
-> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmAX57wSFQM
Are they going to require these for bicycles as well then?
Bicycles might not weigh as much as a car, and so might not be as likely to kill, but they can sure as heck easily hospitalize someone who steps in front of a moving one.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
back in the 1980's, I played a superhero who rode an electric motorcycle (it being all futuristic) and I had speakers with "real harley sound" effects which I could turn on and off.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
I'm not panicking, and it's not uncontrolled.
Learn to cross at the light, asshole.
Looks like the resale on my older model might improve!
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there is a provision that all the cars external speakers be allowed to play campaign advertisements for the Republicans and Democrats, or commercials targeted at the upcoming pedestrians who have already been RFID tagged.
This was already noted by Nissan a while back when they decided to make their next electric cars sound like Blade Runner. Its a safety feature to make sure people like the blind can hear them so they don't walk right into a quiet electric car just as it's turning a corner at the lights.
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That is good. I just spit out my coffee...
Actually, Volvo intoduced a pedestrian protection system which instead stops the car. I think it functions at speeds below 30 mph if I remember correctly.
This would be the coolest thing ever, if instead of "vroom vroom" noises, it played the lyrics to Madness' Driving in My Car read out by a bad Japanese speech synthesizer.
I've been driving in my car, it's not quite a Jaguar
I bought it in Primrose Hill from a bloke from Brazil
It was made in '59 in a factory by the Tyne...
... and then they built the supercollider.
I'll stick with my Detroit Muscle,
In my day, we called that a "trouser snake."
... and then they built the supercollider.
Hey! Some of us Prius drivers are trying to score Death Race points, and this proposal will really impact our scores :-(
Isn't that what the horn is for?
That's to lean on with full might at the last minute while applying screeching brakes attempting to kill the pedestrian of regular heart attack, while claiming full innocence. Lawyerly weaponry. Especially if you upgraded to those trucklike horns that make the entire neighborhood know you just killed a another lady with the heart attack braking technique.
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So the real reason that cars of the future make that "bloop-bloop-bloop-bloop" sound as they go along is because of speakers?
A playing card in the rims could do that for a lot less, and I'll wager the drag would cost less than the energy drain of the speaker system too....
"Waste not one watt!" - CZ
Are they adding this, and piping the sound outside? http://www.soundracer.se/?video=1
This doesn't surprise me in a country where their cars continually ding a bell when you hit 100 k/mh (62mph) hope they don't bother offering the option here.
I'll bet it says
Uzendayo kiero translation FUCK OFF!!!
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
Early electronic EV controllers operated at ~800-1500 Hz and emitted a quite audible electronic buzz or hum. Bay area folks may remember that same sound in the early BART trains. When 15-20 kHz controllers came out, a major selling point was their silence. I vote that we bring back the 1000 Hz hum, even if artificially, as the official EV sound.
Could come in handy for car-jacking with a 2 person team..
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Ringtones for your hybrid car. Downloadable for 99 cents.
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http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/sounds/ext1.mp3
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Here's what the Nissan Leaf sounds like: http://nissan-leaf.net/2010/06/11/nissan-leaf-sound-revealed/
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So when can I get a car with downloadable motortone?
"Make your Prius sound like 1970's Ford Mustang. Download for $0.99 only!"
I use irony whenever I can, but my shirts are still wrinkled...
"ATTENTION PEDESTRIANS! This vehicle is accelerating uncontrollably while an elderly man panics in the drivers seat! Please make way!"
"Coming through! Get the fuck out of the way or get trampled! On your bike! Fuck off now! Except you - stay right there so I can pound ya!"
"Alert! Attention! Dickhead pseudo-environmentalist with a hybrid coming! Get out of the way or get a smug lecture!"
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Hey, pony-tailed thirty something hippy dude, are you feeling a little inferior "under the hood?" Is your tiny "carbon footprint" failing to impress the ladies? Well equipped men drive well equipped cars, cars that grunt and roar, cars that sound like they can deliver THRUST! If you want to make the ladies squeal, buy yourself a Toyota Priapus and make some noise yourself!
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Heck, why not just bolt a vuvuzela to the hood?
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
It's a Prius. Just have the speakers play random stuff by the Village People to complete the picture.
I just can picture it using the voice of king Julien saying "Just look at me, just look" or "You may now give the royal sponge bath". Though I think it might do better to say "it applies the lotion to its skin or it gets the hose"
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Please don't forget the blind that trained themselve to listen to car engin to determine if it's safe to cross. Also i like being able to ear incoming cars it help me to position my self when cycling.
There are lots of electric cars and hybrid cars round here (and the occasional hybrid bus). I have no problem hearing them approach me on my bicycle -- most of the noise vehicles make is the tyres rubbing against the road. (If it's quiet I can hear bicycle tyres.) Most of the time I don't notice anything unusual until the vehicle has passed.
Consider: engines don't make that much noise while idling, but you can still hear cars going downhill.
Sounds like a great reason to drive over 30 mph in cities... If I want the car to stop, I'll tell it to.
Will one of the sound choices be shouted political slogans?
I was able to locate a copy of the factory default sound played for the Prius speakers to make a more noticable engine sound.
http://tiny.cc/kdrv9
Can't Stop by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Don't Stop by Journey
Lord Don't Slow Me Down by Oasis
On endless repeat
Heck, why not just bolt a vuvuzela to the hood?
Because unlike a Toyota, a vuvuzela can stop.
You mean This one? ;)
Wouldn't it be cool if it screamed "NO BRAKES!!! NO BRAKES!!!"?
I'd like my car to say something that suits my charming personality
Heck, why not just bolt a vuvuzela to the hood?
Because unlike a Toyota, a vuvuzela can stop.
When did they add the stopping feature to the vuvuzela?
So the trick is to make sure you're above 30 mph to ensure hitting your objective?
well, it's not as funny as it sounds if you happen to know the prius. driving one since a couple of years, i still come across people who are startled to see the vehicle start to move quietly. especially elderly people don't usually notice the sound of the electric engine, or even the disengaging brake.
the car made me realise how narrow the focus of people on supermarket parking lots is. .~.
The sound a chartreuse Prius makes passing you: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahm-gay"
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
The car will shout "Don't run! I am your friend!" before you run into pedestrians.
I don't know -- I think that a silent electric car like, say, the Tesla Roadster, is fairly impressive to me. Then I'm not a lady. But there is something seemingly powerful about silent acceleration.
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There goes my 10 year old dream patent, for synthesizing and playing sounds in silent cars.
you could get bull bars.
What does a turd rolling up hill sound like?
They're going to make the Prius sound like a ghetto Escalade with wheel well speakers? I actually drive a hybrid Altima, and I assure you that the excellent sound system gives you all the auditory warning you need.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
How about they just broadcast a ping on a very small radio bandwidth. A receiver could be installed in the car to indicate that the transmitter is working every time the car starts, much like the engine light does. Then any blind people that are concerned for their safety could simply have a receiver that indicated a silent car was approaching. This way, the blind could cross the street, and both the blind AND everybody else wouldn't have to live with pointless noise pollution for the rare time that they might be in the vicinity of the blind crossing traffic.
Is the plural of Prius Prii?
It seems to me that on many of the newer cars I can hear tire noise before I can hear the engine at low speeds. I really would like to see the hybrid and non hybrid accident statistics of two civics. I think that the whole engine noise thing is grasping at a reason why some one gets killed rather than the usual reasons, but I have seen no real proof either way.
So the driver can hear the sound of pedestrians yelling at him to stop over the stereo or handsfree telephone.
Since we seem to be goign a bit into what the car would said territory - "NOOO, DON'T CRASH ME!!!...OH, LOOK, A CUSHIONING MEATBAG!!!"?
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The first thing I thought of when I saw this article was the Showtime show "Weeds". The gangbanger character notices how quiet Nancy Botwin's Prius is, so he orders a bunch for his gang so they can perform drive-by shootings easier - no car noise to warn the rival gang. :)
I run and I generally hear cars by the noise they make displacing air and from their tires. Sure I can hear engine noise from compensatory vehicles like F-250s and Harley Davidsons, but most modern vehicles don't have engines that are particularly loud when idling. I live in Austin so I encounter a lot of Priuses and other vehicles and they sound about the same approaching a stop sign.
As a cyclist, I appreciate this sort of thing. I've become quite adept at judging the size, speed, and position of cars passing my from behind based on the noise they make. That information is invaluable in telling me if I need to face plant in the ditch to keep from becoming a smear on someone's bumper. Vehicles that make no noise remove that critical source of information that those of us who use the roads while not encased in glass cocoons have come to rely upon.
My father has very poor eyesight and is also hard of hearing. He relies on hearing car engines to help him judge his surroundings when walking near or crossing a street. He's mentioned to me that hybrids give him trouble because he can't hear them.
I don't know that emulating the existing behavior of other cars is the best solution, but this definitely targets a real issue for some people.
I'm reminded of the Tram Cars that traverse the boardwalk in Wildwood, N.J.. Anyone who has ever vacationed there knows well the sound of a woman calling out (via a recording) "Watch the Tram Car, please", since they've been doing that (with the same woman's voice) for at least 50 years now. Since the woman is still alive that recorded it all those years ago, it'd be a hoot to hear her voice coming out of every Prius that passes by.
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When do we get to add high powered lasers to alert deaf people to the oncoming Priapus?
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On board computer see external temperature > 26C: "McDonald is only 2 block to your south, $1.50 for a cold drink!"
On board computer detects police radio frequency close by: "Turn left here and you will see Dunkin Donuts in 1 minute!"
I bet it is already patented.
You could program it to say "mamaciiiita" to hot gals on the sidewalks.
Why just some nondescript engine noise? Let the driver choose between Ferrari, F1, log truck, freight train, and George Jetson's bubble car.
My ex-girlfriend has a sticker on the bumper of her Prius that say "I SNEAK UP ON PEOPLE" and has a little stick figure guy being knocked over by the silhouette of a Prius.
The main problem I have encountered is in parking lots, when drivers start to back up without noticing people walking through the same parking lot. I have actually been hit twice, but both times I managed to jump before impact and not wrench a knee or ankle. Once I flopped on the back of the car, and the other I managed to get a foot on the bumper and push myself out of harm's way. In both cases, the drivers were shocked -- and when that wore off, I was accused of trying to scare them!
Since the problem largely seems to be with vehicles backing up unexpectedly, why not use an existing standard warning method when backing up -- like a beep? Trucks are so equipped, why not (part- or full-time) electric vehicles?
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There is only one kind of silent but deadly. A hybrid car just doesn't smell bad enough due to the low emissions.
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Use a Tweel instead of a pneumatic tire. I hear their biggest problem is they make noise. Now that is an advantage.
If the pedestrians are jaywalking, vehicles don't need to yield to them...
In one of his later works, "The Cat who Walks through Walls", one of the characters had a car that had recorded sound effects to make it sound "authentic", to match the appearance of a 20th century auto, even though it was a "futuristic" silent car. I've been waiting for this very thing since I heard (if that's the correct word) my friend's first Prius pull into my driveway for a party.
Poor means hoping the toothache goes away.
Prii.
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..the more I'm convinced I never want to own one.
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Artificial noise pollution! This is exactly what society has been begging for ever since the decline of young men putting shitty mufflers on their lowered honda civics in an effort to appear fast and/or furious!
...and yes, it makes everything funnier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakety_Sax
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"Watch the tram car please!"
Well, hey, the Tesla looks so freaking cool it would still be sexy if it's engine quacked like a duck.
It would be cool if this package was programmable, and you could make it sound like anything, like a pod racer, or the car from the Jetson's...
Hey, wait a minute... [shakes fist] LUUUUUCAAAAAS!
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Putting car noise aside, it's annoying that companies have a fixation with arguably unnecessary feedback noises.
Want to IM someone?
ICQ99 used to have a typewriter clacking at each key pressed
Need a cellphone?
here's some loud key beeps
Need a digital camera?
here's some louder-than life camera shutter noises [protects us from 3rd party snooping, but analog cams used to be quieter and never configurable to actually chirp like the figurative flashtime "birdie"]
Need a PC?
here's some loud click noises just to assure you that Internet Explorer hyperlink is processing your hyperlink over that slow ISP connection
Now that cars are quiet, Toyota has decided to start a malicious wave of charging A LOT in hopes that all other car makers bringing quiet cars copy their move. Supposing this happens, 80 years from now our kids will still be going deaf from simulated car noise.
I think I just missed a chance for unnecessary car analogies :)
I was going to say a Swiss Warbler, but I like the vuvuzela idea better.
Actually, active noise control may be interesting, especially if the antinoise cancels out all ambient sound, and not just the sound from the car. This way, that car would be noticeable by the sudden cone of silence surrounding it.
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Surely there are smarter options. How about mandating that EVs have to emit some sort of radio signal. People who want to be warned of oncoming vehicles would have to carry a little receiver (Build it into mobiles?) that would process the signals and warn the user if appropriate. The warning could be audible, or could be vibrations, or electric shock - whatever floats your boat.
So if you're dining al fresco, you don't have to hear all the cars going past. But if you get up and walk closer to the traffic, you'll start being notified of potential threats. This way, you don't have to 'hear' vehicles that are moving away from you.
When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandpa did. Not soiling myself and screaming in terror like his passengers.
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All cars are required by law to have headlights operating when visibility is poor for two reasons:
1. So the driver can see the road and potential hazards ahead.
2. So other road users can see the car.
Point 2 above is important - a car must be seen by potential roadkill. Likewise, a car must also be heard.
Therefore all cars should be required to produce some level of sound. If the engine/motor/tyres are too quiet to be heard from say 50m away by a pedestrian then some kind of substitute is absolutely necessary.
Now the trick comes in finding an appropriate sound that serves the required purpose while being as least annoying as possible.
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Just when you think quiet electric cars are going to help diminish the noise pollution problem, they go and do this.
speaking as someone who rode public transit every day for about 1.7 years in total through my college experience (5 semesters), I heartily support this. It's incredibly obnoxious walking to the subway stop at 8am in the morning and getting a several wheels' worth of worn out extremely loud screeching breaks right in your ear, followed by a deafeningly roaring diesel engine, followed by a mouth full of diesel exhaust.
I got some in-ear monitors to combat this, but not everyone riding public transit is getting paid $18/hour like I was and can afford to drop $100 on the headphones. In case you ask, the rest of the money was going to college, couldn't afford a car, but yes I could afford one set of $100 earplug-headphones.
A playing card in the rims could do that for a lot less, and I'll wager the drag would cost less than the energy drain of the speaker system too....
are we really worrying about the 30 watt energy drain? Why not just make everyone drive a 130hp car?
Actually these external speakers might make it to the mainstream. You can talk to pedestrians, the guy in the car in front, play siren sounds, music.
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I find so many problems with private cars I think they should be outlawed. Risks is one of them. http://www.the-eggman.com/writings/death_stats.html
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As an avid cyclist, I often have to ride long stretches amongst traffic. Often times there's no cars on the road and then a single car will pass me on a lone stretch of road. If I hear the car coming, I can move more to the right of the road/bicycle lane. Prius' just come up with no warning.
In california, motorcycles are allowed to "lane split", hearing their engine (either the rumble of a cruiser or the street bike reving it's engine while it sneaks through the traffic, allows me to move a bit over to the side of my lane to give them a few extra inches to avoid hitting my mirrors.
Stay away from cars if you don't like them.
If you get in a car, you accept the risk that goes along with it. Nobody is forcing you to buy or use a car. Check your pants, no doubt your balls are long gone.
The garbage trucks in Japan already yell at you to get out of the way. I thought that was normal for Japan.
Now, that's a lotta smug.
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Shouldn't the plural of Prius be Priusii? As in a carpark full of Priusii
"My grand-dad died peacefully at 102 years of age, unlike the screaming passengers in his car." - ? :-D
There are blind people out there. The blind rely on the sounds of traffic to know when it's safe to cross. The Prius, Insight, etc. are too quiet for the blind to know if these vehicles are coming. This external speaker should be standard on hybrids.
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There was a time, in the early days of "horseless carriages" when the law required that a person on foot carrying a flag precede the presumably scary, steam-huffing monstrosity, to warn the pedestrians and horses that the oncoming fuming and chuffing machine of the devil was approaching.
Yeah too bad it doesn't work properly :-/ They will get there eventually though
(I drive a Volvo and would probably buy one for my next cars aswell)
.... as if we don't have enough noise pollution as it is. Oh well, if you're the type of guy who installs custom tailpipes, or can't fix your broken ones, maybe a Prius isn't for you in any case.
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Adding to the cacophony that is a city. Trucks in japan have a speaker system as well as indicators for when they are turning. They say, "migi kudasai" (left please) or something because it's done in a cutsey wootsey girls voice and is hard to understand. But everyone ignores them. You have to or run screaming home with your hands over your ears, there's just so much noise. You just filter it out.
Toyota, working in isolation - a good idea for the marketing department, totally useless in real life.
Obesa cantavit!
I have walked across the street (in a cross walk) and had a prius drive up and stop while I was doing this. I certainly heard it come up, and the Prius was definitely running on battery at the time. The sound was a bit high pitched and squeaky but very audible.
I recommend those who are afraid of getting hit by the Prius get out of their cars and walk from time to time.
And while they are pimping it up, they should consider disguising the horrific body work too. Maybe provide a cover with a picture of a nicer looking car. Any truck would do. The Prius probably has the most hateful body work on the planet. Even a Trabant looks appealing when compared with a Prius.
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As if paying out of the arse wasn't enough, you're driving something less efficient than competition, that looks as ugly as sin and now if you buy a new one, it's going to sound like something straight off the line at Henry Ford's plant? Wake up and smell the sewage.. this isn't a revolution in design, it's a revolution in marketing. Electric vehicles may be the future, but the future most certainly isn't now.
How's Nancy Botwin gonna cap a bitch if they can hear her coming?
... in my Prius, it's called a horn.
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I assume you're teasing Mr. Jobs on this. At one time, IE on the Mac was the best browser around. by definition, didn't have ActiveX security errors. This was obviously quite some time ago.
The noise from the electric motor (the whine) is as loud as an underpowered Corolla's tiny 4-cylinder gas engine.
I suggest we all buy those "fart-cannon" over-sized loud mufflers that are popular with people in the demographic of age 18-19.
'Tis funnier if you say "died peacefully in his sleep", IMO...
I think you got that mixed up: Toyota's stop just fine, it's the damned vuvzela PLAYERS and Toyota DRIVERS who can't stop.
A long tima ago, we Prius owners decided we wanted the sound the Jetsons car makes.
Browsing at "3" I seem to be the only hybrid owner commenting.
I *very* much want this feature on my Nissan hybrid. Not just for the benefit of the pedestrians, I have certainly been startled by hybrids sneaking up on me, but for selfish reasons.
Often in parking lots people walk down the middle of the driving area. If they hear a car they naturally move to the side so the driver can pass. If they can't hear you, they keep walking down the middle. Just this morning I was stuck turning into a driveway because someone was standing in the middle of the entry yelling to another person. My choice was to wait, and risk being hit by another car, or honk and be a jerk. If my car made a little noise that wouldn't have happened. I want a little noise to move people out of my way.
Personally I want my car to play the Portal song.
For that, at least in Japan, the noisemakers on cell phone cameras became a legal requirement after their use became all too popular among unsavory individuals in the ladies shower/restroom/etc.
I think it may have even been discussed on /.
So the lame reason for which it exists may not be the same lame reason you think it is.
OMG, that's bad news, actually. In Japan there is no noise pollution law. Apart from other annoying activities, they already doing it now for years in many vehicles, when some car supposed to turn left in order not to harm a bike drivers that silently coming on the left side. A tiny manga-anime-like high-pitch voice repeatedly tells you something like: "Careful, I am turning left. Careful, I am turning left. Careful, I am turning left..." (unless turned off). But now it will also probably say forever all the time (imagine in Engrish, as usual): "Calefur, I am coming. Calefur, I am coming. Calefur, I am coming!". "I told you I am coming, you idiot. I told you I am coming, you idiot. I told you I am coming, you idiot.".... :-)
It gets the point across ;-)