Beeping in Reverse

There is no legislation requiring reverse beeps in private passenger vehicles, if there was all vehicles would have them. This is all Toyota, they like to be our nanny and keep us safe. Unfortunately some of the things they do such as the continuous reverse beeps have the opposite effect, it beeps inside and may keep you from hearing things that are outside.

Sometime big companies think just like big government, they believe they know more about what we should have than we do.

 

A beeper on the outside would have been appropriate. However, I sort of see why Toyota put the beep on the inside. The reverse "gear" on Prius is where "First" gear would be for most manual tranny cars, and "Park" for most automatic tranny cars and that is what people are used to. Beep helps drivers "think" about which gear they are in in the Prius because it is different. I can see how this becomes more of an issue when someone regularly drives both a Prius and a regular car.

 

Miller Toyota in Anaheim only could bring it down to 1 beep, I don't think they didn't want to have any liability so they refuse to remOve the beep.

 

Why do you move the selector forward to go in reverse and back to go forward? Seems backwards to me.

Next you will turn the wheel left to go right and vice versa.

 

I agree, seems counterintuitive.

The Japanese do read right to left though, not left to right.

 

What are you guys talking about? Any car sold in this country (probably in the world) that has an automatic transmission and a shifter on the console you move the lever forward to go into R and back through N to get to D. The Prius is exactly like the rest of them in that respect. The only difference is that the Prius has a button for P and there is no L behind D. B is over to one side but that shouldn't confuse to much

Why would you want it backward from all other cars?

Actually I think we ended up doing it that way because old cars had 3 speed manual transmissions with a shifter on the column or the floor and you moved the shifter forward or up for reverse and back through neutral to first.

BTW the reverse beep doesn't go to zero beeps you can only choose 1 beep or continuous beeps so if the dealer set it to 1 thats the best they could do.

 

Huh? Automatic usually have it like this: P RND321

I guess that's forward from drive but definitely not from park.