Pedestrian Warning Sound

[AustinPowers]

Is this software activated? I ask because when my car was in our local service garage for winter tire change and was up on the ramp I saw the speaker holes on the underside of the front bumper. I didn't even know that cars delivered in March 2019 already had this.
Or probably those are just the holes without any speaker behind them.

 

[Lchamp]

It would be nice if it was a bugle blowing reville...

 

[Type 5]

I voted that I'd disable it, but it would depend if I could program my own noise.
I'd like a choice of sounds including no sounds.

 

[OverEZPZ]

I picked up my car a few days ago and I only hear the pedestrian warning sound when I reverse. The humming sound is pleasant and makes me feel like I’m in a futuristic craft. It’s dead silent when I put it in drive and creep forward.

 

[bcpm3p]

wheres the video on how to remove it?

 

[bpobill]

wheres the video on how to remove it?

Youtube. Where are all videos? lol

I think it sounds like a UFO so I wont be disabling it.

 

[Ivan Abundance]

if you "disable" it and get into an accident with a pedestrian you are screwed

Not if you hit them hard enough....

 

[Lchamp]

its barely noticed unless you are in a garage with your windows down


if you "disable" it and get into an accident with a pedestrian you are screwed

ummm...you're not supposed to hit pedestrians?

 

[thefortunes]

The sound isn't horrible, but I enjoy the quietness of the car so I disabled it.

Took about 3 minutes - turn wheel, remove three automotive fasteners, disconnect speaker, put electrical tape over the connectors, reinstall fasteners, done.

 

[dandrewk]

The sound isn't horrible, but I enjoy the quietness of the car so I disabled it.

Took about 3 minutes - turn wheel, remove three automotive fasteners, disconnect speaker, put electrical tape over the connectors, reinstall fasteners, done.

Another option besides using electrical tape:

Isolation Kit for the PWS (Pedestrian Warning System)

 

[thefortunes]

Another option besides using electrical tape:

Isolation Kit for the PWS (Pedestrian Warning System)

Yep, saw that.

$11 vs something I already had. No brainer.

 

[AZjohnInCA]

I think I read something about this will becoming law next year (can't remember if it's State or Fed).

I'll be honest, I'm not in love with the sound but there needs to be some kind of audible warning sound when we start creeping. Having a few Leaf's in the past 6 years, they all had this warning sound.

Anyways, I have watch so many stupid people walking totally focused on their stupid cell phone that without the noise they would have never looked up to see they almost were getting rolled over by me.

For those of you who disable the noise and end up hitting a pedestrian (while they are totally oblivious to anything but their cell phone) I would think you would be in a world of trouble if investigators found out you disabled the noise (aka: stupid people safety warning system).

Best of luck!

 

[thefortunes]

I think I read something about this will becoming law next year (can't remember if it's State or Fed).

I'll be honest, I'm not in love with the sound but there needs to be some kind of audible warning sound when we start creeping. Having a few Leaf's in the past 6 years, they all had this warning sound.

Anyways, I have watch so many stupid people walking totally focused on their stupid cell phone that without the noise they would have never looked up to see they almost were getting rolled over by me.

For those of you who disable the noise and end up hitting a pedestrian (while they are totally oblivious to anything but their cell phone) I would think you would be in a world of trouble if investigators found out you disabled the noise (aka: stupid people safety warning system).

Best of luck!

Having never hit a pedestrian in 35 years of driving (including 12 years with silent EVs and another 9 years with a silent Prius), I'm fairly comfortable taking that risk. YMMV.

P.S. Not sure that disabling that feature makes any difference - you hit a pedestrian you are typically at fault anyway.

 

[ambudriver03]

For those of you who disable the noise and end up hitting a pedestrian (while they are totally oblivious to anything but their cell phone) I would think you would be in a world of trouble if investigators found out you disabled the noise (aka: stupid people safety warning system).

Best of luck!

I'm not in love with the sound it makes, but coming from a chattery diesel pickup; it's hard to get used to the silence...

 

[jonquiljo]

Having never hit a pedestrian in 35 years of driving (including 12 years with silent EVs and another 9 years with a silent Prius), I'm fairly comfortable taking that risk. YMMV.

P.S. Not sure that disabling that feature makes any difference - you hit a pedestrian you are typically at fault anyway.

I hit a pedestrian when I was 19 years old. It happens. The guy walked out in front of me during a snowstorm. He wasn't hurt that badly, but sued me for $100,000. This was in 1972, and $100,000 was a lot more then than it is now.

The problem with silencing a noise maker is that if you are ever in an accident and it is found that you silenced it - and they will look, they will take you to the cleaners. So it's not an issue of having the noise or not - it's the silencing of the noise maker that is what can get you into a bigger lawsuit. Not worth it, IMO.

 

[thefortunes]

I hit a pedestrian when I was 19 years old. It happens. The guy walked out in front of me during a snowstorm. He wasn't hurt that badly, but sued me for $100,000. This was in 1972, and $100,000 was a lot more then than it is now.

The problem with silencing a noise maker is that if you are ever in an accident and it is found that you silenced it - and they will look, they will take you to the cleaners. So it's not an issue of having the noise or not - it's the silencing of the noise maker that is what can get you into a bigger lawsuit. Not worth it, IMO.

So you think he would have sued for MORE if you had disabled a noisemaker? LOL.

 

[Lchamp]

That just gives lawyers another legal toy to play with...

 

[jonquiljo]

So you think he would have sued for MORE if you had disabled a noisemaker? LOL.

My brother has been a personal injury lawyer for about 40 years now ... about to retire, I think. He is not a very pleasant person and enjoys finding unique ways of going after peoples money in a lawsuit.

Yes, I would expect that you would get sued for more, because your car had a provision to possibly prevent the accident and you disabled it.

The bottom line is that if you can be sued, they will take everything they can get.

 

[xqnine]

Its not that they would sue for more, its that they are more likely to WIN the lawsuit, or be awarded more money.

 

[Brother T]

Not if you hit them hard enough....

Hahaha!