Disable Pedestrian Alert Help!

Man, that's a lot of work for something that people can't even hear. Nobody ever hears mine. And I can just BARELY hear something... but only if I'm between two buildings where it will echo, with all the windows down, and half my body hanging out the door.

I was told the dealers can change the settings, and simply reduce the volume.

 

It's strange, that on some Prii the sound is hardly noticeable. Anyway, some guys said the dealer turned down the volume for them. Whatever works.

I actually wish mine was louder. Pedestrians don't even flinch or look around when I'm right behind them. I guess I can honk my new "Buick" horns I installed.

 

great job key! love the duck tape, and foot pads were a great idea! where is the speaker, and how much work to take it out?

 

wow, sounds like they've made it a lot easier to access than gen3. thank you!

 

I must be blind. When I was installing the new Oldsmobile Cutlass horns, I never saw that speaker.

(And I had to go buy 5 new "push clips" for the plastic panel. One disappeared, and others never got tight when reinserting them. Amateur mechanic! The new ones work good.)

So, again I ask.... Why are my "crickets" so quiet??! And other owners report a loud noise?

 

age

 

Wow....

You may want to buy another Darwin speaker...one without all of the duct tape residue.
I'm thinking that if you squish somebody's kid with the car and some slip-and-fall attorney finds out that you mummified this "critical safety feature" you're going to be in the 10-percent club. (paying 10-percent of every paycheck after the bankruptcy.)

Juuuuust sayin.

 

Sadly, I have this same thought (why must we bubble wrap the entire world for idiots?). But to provide maybe a tiny bit of comfort, I was talking to a cop buddy of mine here in the Denver-metro area about the number of people playing Frogger on major streets. He was telling me he sees car vs pedestrian on a regular basis but he has yet to give the ticket to the car driver, he always tickets the pedestrian. Apparently that "pedestrians always have the right of way" is a myth.

 

Someone alert PETA!!! you heartless bastard....

 

Concur.
However....sad recent history teaches us that sometimes justice isn't just.
People always think that just because (some) lawyers lack morals, they're stupid.

Some day, some sniveling, bed-wetting, ambulance chasing attorney is going to have a client with a family member that died from the dumbs......and somebody is going to twig to the fact that some Prius Drivers hate the growler that other sniveling, bed-wetting, ambulance chasing attorneys made Toyota put on their cars.
A court order gets issued and a gummy, sticky, pedestrian warning speaker is produced that still had duct tape residue on it.


.....payday!

People never plan to fail.....just fail to plan.

I'm an average driver.
Like everybody else on the planet, I actually like to think that I'm a little above average, but facts are facts. I'm older than I was even yesterday, and the reflexes and eyesight aren't what they were in my twenties.....BUT!!! I have over a million miles behind the wheel and I've driven on 5 continents....so it's a wash.
Average.

I've had people bounce off of my quarter panel (after I stopped) in parking lots...trying to walk and operate their cell phones at the same time.
They don't scare me....because for the most part they move slowly and I'm particularly alert.
However (comma!) kids are a lot harder to avoid, because they're already in SERE mode trying to get away from the parent that was clutching their hand moments before.

 

You mean that some DO have morals?

 

It's not "age" Mr. Mischief, because nobody seems to hear my giant ants. I better crawl in there and look for duct tape and cotton balls! )

 

Now we're talkin'!!

 

Great video from PC member jetlash.
I realize he turned up the sound for the camera, but my pedestrian warning has a very different sound.

 

Thanks, ETC. You just scared the crap outa me. I'm going to hang out the window and wave a big red flag, and blow an air horn, and ring a cowbell… and shoot off a red distress flare!

I don't want them lawyers getting my last 40 bucks.