Disabling Beep In Reverse 2006

[Sho-Bud]

Originally posted by Three60guy@Jan 17 2006, 05:51 AM
consider this.....

Your at a stop light.  Your kids are playing around.  One of them hits the gear shift knob.  It goes into reverse.  But you have disabled the beeping sound.  You don't know about the change.  The lights change to green.  You step on the gas and bam, you hit the car in back of ya.  Oh well.

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In that case: sue Toyata, for making it possible to disable the beep! :P

[Bill Merchant]

The problem with the factory backup beep is that it plays through the speakers - you can hear it, but the pedestrian behind you can't. Better to disable the speaker beep and add a real backup beeper, to warn people your car is in reverse motion. And you can hear it too.

[harrv]

Originally posted by Three60guy@Jan 16 2006, 09:51 PM
consider this.....

Your at a stop light.  Your kids are playing around.  One of them hits the gear shift knob.  It goes into reverse.  But you have disabled the beeping sound.  You don't know about the change.  The lights change to green.  You step on the gas and bam, you hit the car in back of ya.  Oh well.

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You have very naughty children.

[Edison]

Originally posted by Three60guy@Jan 16 2006, 11:51 PM
consider this.....

Your at a stop light.  Your kids are playing around.  One of them hits the gear shift knob.  It goes into reverse.  But you have disabled the beeping sound.  You don't know about the change.  The lights change to green.  You step on the gas and bam, you hit the car in back of ya.  Oh well.

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IMHO, the beeper would be just fine if it beeped two or three times to notify you that the car was in reverse and then stopped. It was the continuous beeping, say during parallel parking, that was extremely annoying.

[Begreen]

Originally posted by Bill Merchant@Jan 17 2006, 12:43 AM
The problem with the factory backup beep is that it plays through the speakers - you can hear it, but the pedestrian behind you can't. Better to disable the speaker beep and add a real backup beeper, to warn people your car is in reverse motion. And you can hear it too.

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I agree, this is my preference. Have you done this? Any recommendations?

(1 more day...!)

[brayder]

I was able to kill the reverse and seatbelt beeps. The automatic rearview camera is notice enough for me...

[DaveSheremata]

Originally posted by harrv@Jan 17 2006, 02:44 AM
You have very naughty children.

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No doubt!

I too have reversed into things that I shouldn't have. Namely teeny tiny sports cars that snuck up behind my live-parking in my SUV - twice. Oh yeah, and I reversed into my honda in my parked on the other side of the apex in my driveway behind me - completely invisible from the cabin of the truck. Twice! THAT was embarrasing. Anyway, at least those are the only accidents I've ever had in all my years of driving, knock on wood!

Well, my package #8 arriving this weekend will have the reverse camera, which is as good a warning as any - I'll be disabling the beep.

As for the external beeping sound, which would be my preference - I think my neighbours would really hate to hear me ever pulling out of the driveway at 10 or 11 pm. It would have been really nice if the Prius had an external beep with a button on the reverse camera screen to quickly silence it. Just my $0.02

Dave