What backup sound do you want your Cybertruck to make?

[rlhamil]

Music? Ferrante and Teicher playing the theme from Exodus (piano duet, they beat their pianos into submission so they must have had to have them tuned a lot).

Or maybe the Toccata and Fugue in D minor (Bach organ piece often used in scary movies).

Otherwise, the sound of a car crusher.

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[dalton108]

None. ?

 

[rlhamil]

None. ?

I recall in Japan in the mid 70's, military were warned that one could be sued for scaring someone when backing up - which is why many vehicles there had backup sounds long before that was commonplace.

Even without laws quite THAT silly, having no backup sound might open one to liability issues, esp. with something as quiet as an EV.

A choice between something assertive and something less obnoxious (for use in places like campgrounds where you don't want to disturb everyone) might be good.

But a full-on stealth mode, unless in SHTF situations, one has to wonder what nefarious reason one might want that.

 

[dalton108]

I recall in Japan in the mid 70's, military were warned that one could be sued for scaring someone when backing up - which is why many vehicles there had backup sounds long before that was commonplace.

Even without laws quite THAT silly, having no backup sound might open one to liability issues, esp. with something as quiet as an EV.

A choice between something assertive and something less obnoxious (for use in places like campgrounds where you don't want to disturb everyone) might be good.

Early Tesla’s didn’t have any back sound whatsoever. As a lawyer and a former OSHA compliance officer/administrator, I totally get the safety aspects.

I’ve owned Tesla‘s long enough to where we didn’t have any backup sounds on our Model Y initially and my M3P performance. In fact, my wife’s model Y still doesn’t have a back up sound and Elon got into some trouble because several months worth of vehicles were produced without any loudspeaker in the first place. These weren’t able to do the toy box stuff but also didn’t have the ability to do a back up sound. Several companies including I think abstract ocean for a while sold kits that allowed you to disable this speaker so that you could get rid of the back up sound.

I haven’t looked into it for the cyber truck and I’m not overly motivated to do any aftermarket solution to get rid of it. But I like the silence.

Trust me if you run over somebody (or I do we’ll figure out who is liable in court with or without backup sounds. As a note if you disabled them you’re setting up a prime facia case for liability possibly enhancement to any monetary judgment against you.

A reasonable person would not disable such a safety feature.

But I’m a pretty attentive driver and I would prefer my cars to be silent when backing up. Many ICE vehicles are so quiet nowadays that they’re not providing much of a warning to pedestrians either.

A lot of of the government telling Elon what he can and can’t do with these cars has to do with sounds whether it’s the horn or this. Obviously, he also really wants just cameras for the side mirrors and they won’t let him do that just yet either.

 

[rlhamil]

Early Tesla’s didn’t have any back sound whatsoever. As a lawyer and a former OSHA compliance officer/administrator, I totally get the safety aspects.

I’ve owned Tesla‘s long enough to where we didn’t have any backup sounds on our Model Y initially and my M3P performance. In fact, my wife’s model Y still doesn’t have a back up sound and Elon got into some trouble because several months worth of vehicles were produced without any loudspeaker in the first place. These weren’t able to do the toy box stuff but also didn’t have the ability to do a back up sound. Several companies including I think abstract ocean for a while sold kits that allowed you to disable this speaker so that you could get rid of the back up sound.

I haven’t looked into it for the cyber truck and I’m not overly motivated to do any aftermarket solution to get rid of it. But I like the silence.

Trust me if you run over somebody (or I do we’ll figure out who is liable in court with or without backup sounds. As a note if you disabled them you’re setting up a prime facia case for liability possibly enhancement to any monetary judgment against you.

A reasonable person would not disable such a safety feature.

But I’m a pretty attentive driver and I would prefer my cars to be silent when backing up. Many ICE vehicles are so quiet nowadays that they’re not providing much of a warning to pedestrians either.

A lot of of the government telling Elon what he can and can’t do with these cars has to do with sounds whether it’s the horn or this. Obviously, he also really wants just cameras for the side mirrors and they won’t let him do that just yet either.

If more people (and companies, sometimes) made responsible choices, we wouldn't need so many regulations.

But the world is full of the stupid, uncaring, or greedy. So the choices of the responsible also are limited.

 

[seussiii]

Nothing. I don't care for any more attention than this thing already gets. That would be obnoxious.

 

[HaulingAss]

I'd prefer silence, but if I had to have a sound, I would prefer this:



or this:

Freesound - Sputtering and Coughing Vocal Motor.mp3 by se2001

 

[FutureBoy]

For some other ideas, I'd like some Totoro sounds. Or even better some Catbus sounds though the better sounds for Catbus I didn't find on Youtube. There is a better sequence with some Catbus purring, etc.

This could work a bit for backing up but for a while there was a government proposal to make all electric vehicles make a sound while moving forward so that blind people would know when they were coming. For that, I wanted to have the sounds of horse shoes on pavement. As the torque would ramp up, the number of hooves and thus volume would ramp up. Plus the speed would start at a walk, move to trot, and then adjust to gallop. In this day and age, such a coordinated sound should be relatively easy to make but getting it to run on the CT might be another thing all together.

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