Remove speaker RSA and driver attention monitor

The RSA thing in Europe is wild to me. I get why it exists, and there's some new regulation or something but from what I've heard it goes off the moment you go a single kmh or mph over the speed limit. Which, if true, is far too sensitive. It needs to have a range before audible vs visible alert IMHO.

Driver monitor - mine rarely beeps at me unless I put my hand on the top of the steering wheel waiting to turn or looking out my rear view. Generally a bad habit I need to break though given the way airbags work. So if the driver monitor is beeping often, unless its tuned extra sensitive in Europe, maybe there are behavioural fixes to that one.

And before anyone suggests that the speaker is under the grill on the dash behind the head unit, I've seen photos in threads before of that space and there's nothing there on any trim. Might have been a carryover design feature that just never was changed, or maybe its just ventilation for the electronics in the dash made to have a visual design cue of a speaker grill?

 

Idk if Europe is the same, but some people mentioned that there’s only one speaker for everything, and there are threads detailing the pedestrian warning system

 

They're talking about interior beeps, not exterior.



As to the OP's question...

There are some gen5 Prius models that have a speaker directly behind the head unit, but I think those are Japan-only or SE Asia-only. As for the beeps, most/all models send the beeps through the dash speaker on the driver's side. If you really, really, really wanted to silence the alerts, what you would do is either cut the wires connecting the Telematics Transceiver to the Junction Controller that handles all the front speakers(6 speaker cars), or rewire the feeds from the amp to go directly to the front dash speaker instead of going through the Telematics Transceiver first(8 speaker cars with an amp under the driver's seat). Just note that this will prevent you from getting ANY audio notifications from the car.

The easiest thing to get at would be the Telematics Transceiver. You'd have to remove the center console as well as the big piece of trim that the LED strip and the climate controls are mounted into. The TT is just behind the climate controls. Once you get it free, you'd have access to the wiring right behind it. You'd either cut the wires that go to the front speaker(6 speaker cars) or cut two pairs of wires and connect them together to bypass the TT(8 speaker cars).

I do not know if you'd also have to rig some resistors into the wiring to prevent the TT from realizing the wires had been cut and it throwing an error code.


Do I think any of this would be worth it? No. But I'm doing a lot of stuff to my car that practically everyone else thinks isn't worth it, so who am I to judge? lol

 

toyota has had a black box forever. what's worse is connected cars reporting driving behavior to insurance companies

 

You realize Toyota does that right now, right? That's what the telematics system is for.

 

The alert is mandatory. Cars have been recording the data long before that.

 

Are they reporting the data about you or are they reporting data in aggregate for prius drivers in general?

Because, as far as I know here in Canada, they can't report individual data to the insurance companies at all, its not allowed. At most I can see the little drive pulse thing in the app where it tells me I'm a good little driver that doesn't brake, accelerate, or turn harshly. With the exception of when I'm cut off on a highway or when it thinks a roundabout going 25-30km/hr is me making a "turn"

 

idk what toyota is doing. gm and others were reporting to lexis nexus and they were selling individual acceleration, braking and cornering stats to insurance companies without permission from owners. a class action suit brought it to a halt.