reverse sound

[ikarian999]

Good morning everyone. When we reverse the car emits a spacey warning sound. Do you know if this can be disabled?

[stepppy]

15 minutes ago, ikarian999 said:

Good morning everyone. When we reverse the car emits a spacey warning sound. Do you know if this can be disabled?

No, this is a mandated pedestrian safety feature.

"All new electric cars, hybrids and plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) must now be fitted with an Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System (AVAS), which will activate at 12mph and below, emitting warning sounds to alert pedestrians and other road users of the vehicles' presence."

Some cars used to let the driver switch off the warning sound (I had a Renault Zoe and it had a switch), but now they cannot be disabled.  Unless you want to invalidate your insurance and possible have someone with hearing loss walk out in front of you I would just get used to it.

My Prius, before my NX did not have any warning sound and I thought the noise from the NX warning sound would annoy me, but I quite like it now.  Luckily the NX has a speaker in the front and the back, so when reversing, the sound only comes from the rear speaker and is the same volume and from the front speaker when going forwards.  I believe some Lexus models now only use one speaker at the front and ramp up the volume when reversing which I have heard and can be pretty loud.

[Pauly C]

Consider yourself lucky…my UX doesn’t have the ‘spacey’ sound, and already I’ve had people moan at me as I drive past…cos they can’t hear me coming….well, the deafer ones amongst us can’t anyway🤔😉😉