Losers and noise generators

I wonder if the "noisemaker" will have Jetson's sound effects, Battle Star Galactica sound effects, or will the driver be able to pick and choose? Eg: use an iPod to plug into the audio system and download an mp3/wav etc of my favorite sound effect

I bet this sound effect would make pedestrians jump

Or. maybe just hook up a small 12 vdc air compressor and mount one of those Kenworth air horns to the roof

 

Its not a Kenworth air horn (they have air horns on other trucks, too), its a Hadley air horn:

Hadley

 

Well, the car probably rattles, wheezes and groans. So this is the usual GM attempt to market poor quality as a "feature." :madgrin:

 

Yep, that works. BWOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNK!!!!!!!!

 

I want mine to sound like a Harley with straight pipes. Just to make sure everyone knows I'm there. :madgrin:

 

That's an idea - I could record our Persian cat trying to wake us up at 3am and play that back whenever the Prius is moving slower than 15 mph. :madgrin:

If I recall correctly, doesn't the data show that incidents of SUVs backing over children causes more pedestrian deaths than all of the so called "silent*" cars?









*EV's and Hybrids. FWIW, I think that the Toyota HSD cars have a distinctive electric motor sound when decelerating and moving away from a dead stop. I think there are some other conventional ICE cars that are harder to detect when there is background noise present.

 

Jayman, you're a bad, bad, man. (goes out to swap old and busted baseball cards for hot new Jayman effect device)

 

Maybe just a loudspeaker system so you can tell em to "get off my sidewalk!!"
LOL!

 

That's a bit harsh...

...placebos are known to outperform some SSRI drugs.

 

A lot of folks say that, but once they get to know me, they also claim I'm vaguely sinister too

 

These would be great to install on a Prius. It sure beats swapping the stock horns w/ones from Camrys.

 

Sorry, Bob, I was just trying to be funny (and failing). It was meant to be like saying that comparing thus-and-so knuckle-dragger to a monkey is an insult to monkeys. Therefore comparing noise-generators to placebos is an insult to the effectiveness of placebo.

Dr Ben Goldacre is a medical doctor who writes on the lack of scientific rigour in a lot of conventional and alternative medicine, who has written some interesting stuff about the fact that, a lot of the time, the experience of being medicated or of being operated on is actually a large part of what improves patient outcomes and in some cases pharmaceuticals actually are no better than this. His book Bad Science has a good chapter on placebos. He also made a radio programme last year:

My Placebo programme on BBC Radio 4 - Bad Science
Part two of my Radio 4 show on the placebo effect, 9pm tonight (Monday) - Bad Science