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Old 10-14-2009, 03:02 AM   #1
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Default Fake "Vroom" for Hybrids

From the New York Times:

“It could play ‘In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida,’ or anything you like.”
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Old 10-14-2009, 04:28 AM   #2
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G-d forbid people just stay the fark outta the road
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Old 10-14-2009, 08:54 AM   #3
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G-d forbid people just stay the fark outta the road
I'm reading a book called "Traffic" (I'm thinking of starting a thread to recommend it) and the author, who has studied behavior for decades discusses how people pay attention to what they are looking for. In the case of silent hybrids, they are listening for a sound and when they don't hear it they assume there's no car or that the car they see is not running. It's not that the pedestrians are stupid but rather it's human nature. Otherwise, we would be stopped dead in our tracks but the vast overwhelming influx of constant information.
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Old 10-14-2009, 10:00 AM   #4
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This is ok with me as long as my car can sound like Geroge Jetson's car.
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Old 10-14-2009, 10:15 AM   #5
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I'm reading a book called "Traffic" (I'm thinking of starting a thread to recommend it) .....
Is this the book? It looks very interesting.

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
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Old 10-14-2009, 11:21 AM   #6
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“Quiet cars need to stay quiet — we worked so hard to make them that way,” he said. “It’s the driver’s responsibility not to hit somebody.”
I think between this and the floor mat issue, the Toyota engineers must believe that all Americans (US citizens) must be idiots.
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Old 10-14-2009, 11:29 AM   #7
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I think between this and the floor mat issue, the Toyota engineers must believe that all Americans (US citizens) must be idiots.
Only the majority, unfortunately they are right. But seriously I don't think any of those kinds of decisions come from Toyota engineering, they come from management with advice of their legal department.

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Old 10-14-2009, 11:32 AM   #8
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I think between this and the floor mat issue, the Toyota engineers must believe that all Americans (US citizens) must be idiots.
LOL!
I can just see them gathering for the monday morning meeting to go over what those crazy American's have come up with to bitch about now.
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Old 10-14-2009, 11:55 AM   #9
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I want my car tone to be like that cartoon car that's about to die:

Pa-putt pa-putt <wheeze> pa-putt <gasp> pa-putt <gasp> pa-putt pa-putt pa-putt <wheeze>!
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If I'm ever forced to add a noise generator to my car, I will just make it sound like it does on the inside:

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