would like to see a pic of your mod. Personally, doesn't bother me. But would be fun if it could be programmed to say something funny, instead. "DANGER, WILL ROBINSON, DANGER". Or the ice cream truck sounds would be fun, as someone else mentioned. Or maybe opera - that would keep people away!
The video in the post right above yours covers the speaker and its location. It is about half way through the vid.
It’s actually about 15$ buying the parts individually. Mostly the resistor.
There is a law, but it says nothing about making the vehicle sound like a sick dump truck backing up. That's pretty much THE complaint about the dumb thing.
There's a volume mod someone made for where it's a rotary button to hush when needed. Both of my PACMs are unplugged. My office is on a good thoroughfare and I listen to all sorts of vehicles come by. We've got loads of teslas, EV6s, ioniqs, and lightnings. NONE of them sound any different from ICE vehicles coming to a stop in that the road noise is what's audible. I can hear the EV's over most of the idling ICE vehicles though. The law itself DOES NOT require a backup beep. It simply requires a slightly elevated noise pattern. They all make the spaceship sound for the most part because the law requires certain decibel levels at a host of frequencies, aka pink noise.
Honestly its as simple as increasing whirring volume. That's it. No dumb dump truck beeping needed. It's not a requirement. Apparently on the day it was configured they borrowed someone from the road crew paving the highway out front to select what occurs. Rumor has it he's still laughing to this day.What would be nice would be if they would let us add a sound file instead of the beep. If anyone has ever played a game named Dead Red Redemption 2, the main character Aurthor would have the perfect sound to add. He says this when he is running through a crowd.
"OUTTA THE DAMN WAY"
Perfect for backing up.
