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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWxrK_3LlEr9WsfOL8N41eA30Wr_Br2oM https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWxrK_3LlEr9WsfOL8N41... I absolutely love the

by dekhn 2y ago

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWxrK_3LlEr9WsfOL8N41eA30Wr_Br2oM https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWxrK_3LlEr9WsfOL8N41... I absolutely love the reverse sound my Toyota RAV4 Prime (hybrid) makes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUT94MBt_Ao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUT94MBt_Ao To me, it sounds like the future. Sort of a hovering UFO. People's heads definitely turn when I back out of my driveway.

ttul 2y ago
When I first got a RAV-4 hybrid, I had no idea that this sound was being pumped out of a speaker. I thought it was an artifact of the electric motor. As it happens, companies spend a lot of time designing their unique electronic sound as a signature of the vehicle. My dog has learned to recognize the sound and he barks when the car is as much as 1km away.
- xnx 2y ago
  Video coincidentally posted today that details some of the design requirements of these sounds: "What should an electric car sound like?" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnAGXvVNMB8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnAGXvVNMB8)
repler 2y ago
I think you’re the only one. I wouldn’t mind as much if the volume wasn’t 5 times louder in reverse than drive.
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WheatMillington 2y ago
That sounds horrible.
scoot 2y ago
Let me make sure I've got this right... According to the video, if the driver of a Toyota EV reverses through a "cross walk", and hits a pedestrian, it's the pedestrian's fault for not getting out of the way? And, in order to prove that it must be the pedestrian's fault for not noticing the vehicle reversing through said cross walk, the vehicle omits an obnoxious noise at high volume?
- dekhn 2y ago
  I didn't watch the video, but both practically and legally speaking, in the US when a car hits a pedestrian it's considered the car driver's fault, excepting some circumstances. The noise doesn't have anything to do with it- cars have to stop for pedestrians in marked crosswalks, and should stop at any formally defined crosswalk (not all "crosswalks" are directly labelled or signed as such).

by dekhn 2y ago

ttul 2y ago

When I first got a RAV-4 hybrid, I had no idea that this sound was being pumped out of a speaker. I thought it was an artifact of the electric motor. As it happens, companies spend a lot of time designing their unique electronic sound as a signature of the vehicle. My dog has learned to recognize the sound and he barks when the car is as much as 1km away.

xnx 2y ago
Video coincidentally posted today that details some of the design requirements of these sounds: "What should an electric car sound like?" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnAGXvVNMB8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnAGXvVNMB8)

repler 2y ago

I think you’re the only one. I wouldn’t mind as much if the volume wasn’t 5 times louder in reverse than drive.

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WheatMillington 2y ago

That sounds horrible.

scoot 2y ago

Let me make sure I've got this right... According to the video, if the driver of a Toyota EV reverses through a "cross walk", and hits a pedestrian, it's the pedestrian's fault for not getting out of the way? And, in order to prove that it must be the pedestrian's fault for not noticing the vehicle reversing through said cross walk, the vehicle omits an obnoxious noise at high volume?

dekhn 2y ago
I didn't watch the video, but both practically and legally speaking, in the US when a car hits a pedestrian it's considered the car driver's fault, excepting some circumstances. The noise doesn't have anything to do with it- cars have to stop for pedestrians in marked crosswalks, and should stop at any formally defined crosswalk (not all "crosswalks" are directly labelled or signed as such).