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Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the noise-pollution dept.

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."

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  1. Re:years ago in superhero 2044 by geekoid · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let me guess:

    "Obnoxiousman!"

    or :
    "Totally not trying to cover for my tiny penis man!"

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  2. Re:Hmmmm by Locke2005 · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is a Prius; the default is "Smugly Superior Asshole Coming Through".

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  3. Re:Only Priuses? by azalin · · Score: 0, Troll

    A real engine is more felt than heard

  4. Re:Only Priuses? by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Troll

    >>>Kinda makes me feel good..

    I think it's stupid. If pedestrians are too stupid to LOOK before they cross a street (instead relying the car's engine as warning), then they deserve to get run over. It's just the same as Caveman Ugh not looking left-then-right-then-left prior to crossing a buffalo path, and then getting trampled. Eyes are in your head for a reason. LOOK for the quiet priuses and electric cars.

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