Hello Everyone

Welcome George Jetson, love the name Rosie.... Beautiful color,
Is that your dog Astro?

 

The reverse beeping is there because you can't tell visually that the car is in reverse "gear".

IMO, a necessary upgrade is the dual horn upgrade. Link in my signature below, that is one of the least expensive mods, yet may save your life, or many $$$ in preventing someone from changing lanes right into you.

Something about our Winter Gray Metallic color that makes people overlook our car, like it's invisible. SMH

 

Greetings!
Welcome Aboard!!

 

Welcome !
- and I saw your black dawg avatar & had to wish you the best. Our Black 14yr ol' 100lb lab"Fred" passed, almost 2 years ago now. Here he was - senic route up the Cali coast - then the Columbia river & on into Montana. Good times.



A year ago we got "Buck" ... the silver one pictured on the avatar, shot taken back when he was just 3 months old. He too, is an eating machine ... mealtime takes just 25 seconds

They DO love their food, almost as much as the pri . . . .

 

beautiful! all the best.

 

Wow....that's Winter Gray?
The lighting in that picture really makes it look different.

I thought it was a custom paint job.

The reverse beep is the reverse beep. The overwhelming (it seems) majority absolutely hate it.

I'm in the minority that really doesn't mind it.

I've been in parking lots, and this is true. When The Prius first starts up it can be incredibly silent. When the engine isn't running it doesn't give the tail pipe smoking visual clues to people that the vehicle is running and might be backing up. Even though it does have the reverse tail lights and Vehicle Proximity "George Jetson" sound.

I had a close call late at night in a nearly entirely empty parking lot, when (my fault) I got in my Prius and threw it in reverse and started to back up...and almost hit this 1 guy that for some reason decided in the entire empty parking lot to walk behind my vehicle. I didn't expect him to be there, and he was in the "blind spot" and he didn't realize I had started the vehicle. Luckily it was only a "close call" and not a law suit and a Emergency Room trip. But since then? I really don't mind the reverse beep. I think The Prius because of it's design demands a little more attention when backing up, so now when I hear the "beep, beep, beep" it's just a reminder to be that much more careful.

I think the incessant and repetitive in the cabin beeping is just Toyota's way of reminding you STRONGLY that you are in reverse and to be alert. Given The Prius's quiet start up nature, I actually think this reminder is valid. Would it be more helpful if the audio was projected outside the vehicle? Yeah...I think that would help. But then you'd probably get a whole lot of posts where people would want to disable it because they didn't like their Prius beeping like a delivery truck when in reverse and/or waking up neighbors at night.

 

Looks a little like the Persona's Black Cherry paint.

 

Your hardly welcome at priuschat.com. I am continuing follow this sites for best replies and really they are very helpful to me. So thanks to be here.