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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."
"ATTENTION PEDESTRIANS! This vehicle is accelerating uncontrollably while an elderly man panics in the drivers seat! Please make way!"
"His name was James Damore."
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...
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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Be yourself no matter what they say
So you propose we introduce traffic laws that require cars to at all times be going above 30 km/h?
You don't need much speed to kill a kid or dog, and it'll just feel like a small hump in the road when you start dragging the corpse under your car..
- These characters were randomly selected.
Noise pollution is better than pedestrian carnage pollution.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
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)...
I'm not panicking, and it's not uncontrolled.
Learn to cross at the light, asshole.
Then they won't mind the dent you leave in the hood.
And do they go VROOM VROOM? That sound that legacy engines used to make, sort of like a SteamPunk car sound effect? I wonder if you can install a tailpipe and make real smoke, and get a radiator full of hot water and stuff. These electric engines are just so boring, they make no noises with water steam smoke etc like cars used to.
Build your own energy sources from scratch. http://otherpower.com/
Tie Fighter engine noise
Hey! Some of us Prius drivers are trying to score Death Race points, and this proposal will really impact our scores :-(
Ringtones for your hybrid car. Downloadable for 99 cents.
It is unwise to ascribe motive
Heck, why not just bolt a vuvuzela to the hood?
Because unlike a Toyota, a vuvuzela can stop.
Those tires make almost no noise at all.
Do they make these tires in a wife-sized model?
Forget mimicry. I want either Peter Weller (in a Robocop voice) or Patrick Warburton (in a Tick voice) to say "Step aside, citizen."
Last minute burst of acceleration...
They (Toyota) already have that covered.
So record the Corvette and play it on the Prius speakers.
Of course the crowd reaction will be one of rolling in the street laughing their asses off. But at least they were warned.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
Don't be silly. Users record things for the car to play? How do you know they'll pay the required royalties? If you want a Corvette cartone, then you can damn well pay $5 for it at the Toyota Store.
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It's not like trying to listen to a cat sneaking up behind you on a carpeted floor.
Let it go, Calvin =)