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What happened to the white noise beeper talked about in Tom Scott's video from 7 years ago -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa28lIGuxq8 https://www.youtube.co

• jeroenhd 5y ago
  Isn't that exactly what the Forbes article is talking about? The patent should be expired now, so third party companies can finally mass produce these things cheap enough that they can start to appear in new construction and transport equipment. Such equipment can last decades, though, so even if every truck, bulldozer and crane switches tomorrow, we'll still be in for another 10 or 20 years of beeping at least.
  • rhdunn 5y ago
    Not knowing about the patent (only the info from the Forbes article), the device producing the sound from Tom Scott's video would have been around when that patent was still active. Therefore, either 1) it was from the company issuing the patent and they weren't able to bring it to the US market; or 2) it was from a different company. Given that the comments in the video mention that the US still has the beep-beep sound, I wonder if that was preventing the UK company selling the system to the US. In that case, why didn't the creator of the patent bring it to market in the US while it was still valid?
• ceejayoz 5y ago
  The Amazon trucks in my area use this.