Gen4: Do you have the "Proximity Noisemaker?"

I was wondering what that noise was! My daughter says she hears it.. told me it sounds like a millennium falcon coming. Guess If i didn't have the music so darn loud I would hear it too!!

 

Four Touring with convenience package is loud and clear. Side sensors are a test in progress.

How exactly did the dealer do this?

 

Lots of stuff to learn. Just found the parking assist button.

 

Could be wrong but I thought you had to have all those drill holes with sensors around the car which comes with the convenience package on the Four Touring.

Working my second large Tiger cup of strong coffee this morning.

 

She always says "what is your destination" when I asked for a channel change. Voice recognition is better on the 2016vbut still not all the where it needs to be. They need to work with Amazon on that as they have it down pat on the ECHO.

 

The sound volume is a customizable feature. I don't know what type of scan tool the dealer used. See page 753 of the Owner's manual, Customizable Features, Hybrid system.

 

Echo has a microphone array. It can listen to sounds in the far field. It also detect's and cancels noise, from different directions..
The single microphone in our cars and telephone are good for the near field. You have to be loud and clear, and the sound needs to stand out from background noise.

Far-Field Voice Input Processing
Microphone Array Aided Distant Speech Recognition
Delay Sum Beamforming - The Lab Book Pages

Oh, and ECHO can only understand the wake up word, It records everything after the wake up word and sends it to amazons server for recognition. So it MUST have an internet connection to function.

 

the pedestrian warning sound has been on all prius since 2012.be careful what you wish for. a quiet lady is a beautiful thing.

 

Seems a post got lost. Maybe!

The noise maker is a separate item and is worthless IMHO. Pedestrian proximity alert system (PDS) may not be on all Prius.

 

When you open the hood, there is a black plastic cover that extends from the front of the car to the radiator.
When you take that off and look towards the drivers side (usa) horn,

 

This enhancement is on more vehicle than that. Some do it mechanically (resonator pipes into cabin), so electrically (speakers). It is not strange at all, it was meant to appeal to a certain type of enthusiast or buyer. Though some of them were upset to discover that the sound was enhanced, not natural.

 

feds won't allow it to be deactivated. i'm surprised there's a volume control.

 

Is it actually federally mandated, ir is it just Toyota being extra-careful? I've asked before and I'll ask again: does any other manufacturer's hybrids or EV's have a low-speed noise system like this?