Gen4: Do you have the "Proximity Noisemaker?"

beam me up scotty, no signs of intelligent life down here.

 

Huh? I'm 69 and I heard it just fine. Better than the VPNS in fact.

 

is that you, in your avatar?

 

Nope. She's far better looking (not to mention smarter and more athletic) than I am so I used picture of her rather than one of me.

Getting back OT, she also hears the VPNS and the electric motors really well too.

 

I had the dealer adjust the volume of the VPNS to '3' on my car. The default volume is '1'. It seems that the noise is noticeable by pedestrians when I am driving up (the pedestrians look/turn their heads). I think I hear the 'whine' sound too.

 

It doesn't afflict everyone equally.

Is that a challenge? If so, let my dad test it, with his hearing aids out.

55 dBa is not loud, especially by street standards. The video's sound level was likely carefully adjusted for illustrative purposes.

 

It now throws a error on the dash?

 

Well I want to adjust mine so it yells "LOOK OUT" every second or so. Or maybe "HEADS UP!". Why try to be discreet? Sort of like choosing a personalized ringtone on one's cell.

























merged.

A sort of natural selection among the elderly.

 

That happens between the ears, not in the ears.

But separate from overall loss of sensitivity, hearing loss can cause some selection issue by taking out the highest frequencies first. (Machinery can knock down any frequency band where it is loud). Kids commonly hear to the 20,000 Hz range. When I got my first permanent job, I could still hear the 15,750 Hz horizontal rescan rate of common TV sets. Some were obnoxiously loud, enough so for me to get rid of a home set. Two decades later, all that had been silenced. Recently, I could hear just up to 13,000 Hz.

My dad, who never used hearing protection on the farm or gun range, can no longer hear above 1,500 Hz. That cuts into the normal speech range, with higher pitched female voices being more difficult to understand.

 

Not sure how much the pitch has to do with men failing to understand women very well.

Now I wonder if EV's and other hybrids have similar noisemaking systems. How about the Tesla S, the BMW i3, the electric Golf, the Nissan Leaf, the Chevy Spark? And what about the Volt, the Ford hybrids, and the Kia hybrid?

 

i don't think they were adjustable in the gen 3, that's pretty neat. cc, maybe yours is off?

 

Are you sure you have your hearing aid on during the testing?

I opted to destroy that unit so I can sneak up on pedestrians. With it, the pedestrians tends to run off the side walk before I get a chance j/k

 

don't ask, they might turn it on! you have no idea how lucky you are. we've been ripping these things out of the gen 3 for years.

 

i didn't notice, going from 2008 to 2012. what?