Toyota Learned Their Hybrids to Make Noise

Toyota learned their hybrids to make noise

The company Toyota has developed a system of sound internal combustion engine for hybrid and electric models. This device will allow machines that are virtually silent, warn pedestrians of their approach by simulating the engine noise, according to AP.

The first model in the line of Toyota vehicles sound system will be the third-generation Prius. The unit cost of $ 148 will be set in Japan at the request of clients, from 30 August. The question of whether equipped with a system of sound generation “Prius” in other countries, has not yet been resolved, but the opportunity was Toyota studied.

In addition to the Prius, the sound device will appear in the future and in other hybrid and electric cars Toyota and Lexus.

In 2009 a Japanese research team, consisting of scientists, motorists, the police and autocompanies, as well as people with impaired vision, tested the noise-free electric cars and hybrids to safety. The study found that such cars may pose a threat to the life of pedestrians, cyclists and disabled, and it was proposed to force equipped with all electric cars and hybrids are devices that makes noise.

At the end of April 2010 the members of the European Commission declared that they will consider the need to equip the European car noise devices. In May 2010 the UK Department of Transport has proposed to oblige companies producing electric cars and hybrids, to install on their cars the system sound generation engine.

In March 2010 a similar device intended for production cars, introduced by Lotus. The system, installed on the hybrid version of the sports car Evora 414E, to simulate the sound 6 – or 12-cylinder engine, audible and outside, and inside the car.

In the process of developing a device that would make hybrids and electric cars can be heard, “the company does General Motors, Ford and Nissan.