Nobody hears the proximity warning

Don't know when they go live, but here's a possibility:

EVTONES - Electric Vehicle and EV car sounds

 

I attempted to disconnect the noisemaker during my lunch break but ran into the same issue, the white connector is impossible to disconnect without knowing the correct method. I do not want to cut the wire though.

Does anybody have a close-up picture of the clip that holds the white connectors together?

 

That would be cool. I want to change it to Morse Code Wonder how much longer it will be before one of the group figures out how to read & write to the computers? Is anyone working on it now? I am an idiot when it comes to software or I'd be all over it.

Mike

 

Just imagine if someone figured out how to hack it and then sold kits to help users to program in anything they wanted. They'd be rich!

(I like horse gallopping souund idea best).

 

Big ka-ching The horse sound would be a total attention getter sound. Much better than sounding like George Jetson

Mike

 

I mentioned the legal things earlier in a post. Some people said it was not the law yet.

They put a safety device on the vehicle which you are removing.

If you remove this and it is found out, your damages will increase.

Is it really that noticable?

 

In really quiet areas yes. Otherwise you don't hear it. I rather like the sound but I also like the sound of the inverter as well so....

 

Is the inverter sound what you hear when you open the door and your Prius wakes up

Mike

 

Nah, it was an electrical warbling sound that was especially loud on the GenII when driving slowly through a quiet residential area. I think the GenIII makes the same noise but I can't hear it over the VPNS. lol

 

Wonder what that wake up sound is when I open my door? I always think of it as my car saying 'Daddy, you've come back' ound:

Mike :madgrin:

 

believe it's the brake cannister talking to you.

 

Some funny things from there website...

"Ther could also be public broadcasting rights associated with EVtonesâ„¢ as the sounds are designed to be 'broadcast' to the public."


Seriously... Is that seriously a concern... What the hell is the world coming to. How is that different then my cell phone loudly going off at church and playing the Star Wars - Imperial March to the entire building...






"Evtones™ also have an embedded sound similar to a dog whistle to ‘pre-alert’ Seeing Eye dogs. As an added benefit pet lovers across the world will feel a sense of security knowing that their pets will be alerted to oncoming, silent running electric vehicles. Animal lovers and animal rights groups can be assured that small urban wildlife will also be alerted to an EVs approach."


This one I just found funny, yet practical.

 

Rebound,
Instead of cutting a wire, you just needed to push down on the release button on the top of the left plug and then pull it out of the right one, which is strapped to the car.

I also thought the sound was weird.

 

I'm sure there's a way, but I couldn't get them apart, and I was out of time, so I just snipped.

 

I haven't heard anything vaguely Jetson-like. All I'm hearing is something that sounds like gear whine.

In parking lots so far I haven't seen anyone respond to anything until about 5-10 feet. Which means I'm in their get-upset zone when they see me RIGHT behind them. Whatever the noise is can't be heard over the sound of their awesomeness.

 

I'll try to disassemble mine this weekend. Pretty sure it's just a 5 watt amplified speaker with a simple analog circuit which makes the sound whenever 12v is applied. So, yeah, maybe it can be modified easily, if it's analog. I could probably make it higher pitch, or make it warble... but I don't know what kind of sound I'd like. I was always thinking a George Jetson sound would be best, but I don't know if I can build an analog circuit that can make that sound.

 

This page was referred to me by the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center.

It is asking for public comment on research to be done with both blind and sighted persons concerning the vehicle noisemakers for EV and PHEV vehicles.

It looks like it's going to be done in the Boston area this coming summer.

Scroll down to the abstract section for details.

Deadline for comment is 6/18/12.


https://www.federalregister.gov/art.../reports-forms-and-recordkeeping-requirements

 

whaddayawannabet the next ones are louder?

 

I would refer them to this:
http://files.meetup.com/211111/analysis-blind-pedestrian-deaths.pdf

Which begins with this:
Pedestrian Deaths
• From 2002 to 2006, an average of five legally blind pedestrians per year were killed in motor vehicle accidents in the US (Table 1).
• No deaths of legally blind pedestrians involved a Prius (Table 3) or any other hybrid vehicle (Table 4).
• For all US pedestrian deaths (blind and sighted), 11 deaths involved a Prius (Table 3).
(The Prius was singled out here because it is the only model with large production volume that was produced solely as a hybrid).
• For all US pedestrian deaths, a Prius was no more likely to be involved in a pedestrian death than the average passenger vehicle (Table 5). The Prius accounted for 0.05 percent of passenger vehicles involved in fatal pedestrian accidents, and accounted for 0.05 percent of US registered motor vehicles, on average, over this period.
• For both blind and sighted individuals, only about 10 percent of pedestrian deaths occurred as the result of being struck while walking in a crosswalk. The rest occurred in other locations. More than two-thirds of both blind and sighted pedestrians were listed as contributing in some way to the accident. Of those tested, slightly more than one-third of both blind and sighted pedestrian decedents tested positive for alcohol.
• Data on hospitalization rates for pedestrian accidents confirm the death rate data (Table 6). In a typical year, roughly 40 legally blind pedestrians are hospitalized as the result of a motor vehicle accident.
• Based on population estimates, the average a legally blind person is less likely to be killed or hospitalized as a result of being hit by a car than the average sighted individual.