I'm guessing an engineer named it the German equivalent of "pre-crash" sound, then someone in marketing decided that "pre-safe" sounds better. It may be better to call it "foreplay" sound, since if you ever hear it you're probably screwed.
Mercedes-Benz pre-safe sound
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#72> "PRE-SAFE® Sound is activated if your vehicle detects that a collision is unavoidable" See also: Peril Sensitive Sunglasses™
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#73Is this why it doesn’t hurt your ears when you holler?
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve taken up wearing earplugs while driving. I also work in a noisy environment, and it occurs to me that the road and engine and wind noise is probably loud enough to have a negative impact on hearing over time. Less so in newer cars, but both mine are over 10yo. Also, in the event of a collision I’m protected.
At least in most of the usa, wearing earplugs (or earbuds, headphones, etc) while operating a car, is illegal. Please check with your local PD to be safe. You may just be putting yourself and others at higher risk by attinuating your situational awareness.
On a motorcycle, earplugs are a necessity at speeds over 35 MPH due to wind noise. I've found that the earplugs really only cut out the wind noise for the most part though and if anything, my awareness of other cars is increased.
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#75Why not link to the source directly at Mercedes [1]? The website has only added marketing to the information available in the video from the original site. I honestly thought this is satire until I saw it from the source, but this is actually pretty cool. [1] https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/next/connectivity/pre-safe-...
I like the OP better, to be honest.
Your link is weirdly formatted on my machine to the point it looks broken.
Also I prefer reading text to watching a video.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I hope not, because I have been able to control the muscle voluntarily and it is still works after almost four decades. Oh, is that how the brain rumblies thingy works? Huh, I never realized most people couldn't do that.
I realized it was rare, but I've never been able to explain what I'm doing to other people. Now I finally know!
Whoah! I thought everyone could do this!
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve taken up wearing earplugs while driving. I also work in a noisy environment, and it occurs to me that the road and engine and wind noise is probably loud enough to have a negative impact on hearing over time. Less so in newer cars, but both mine are over 10yo. Also, in the event of a collision I’m protected.
At least in most of the usa, wearing earplugs (or earbuds, headphones, etc) while operating a car, is illegal. Please check with your local PD to be safe. You may just be putting yourself and others at higher risk by attinuating your situational awareness.
I wear earplugs when I ride my motorcycle for longer trips on the highway. When people see this, they say "that's dangerous, you'll hear less" but it mostly cuts the wind noise, and counter-intuitively I end up hearing more than I would otherwise.
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#78I wish fire alarms did this for half a second before blasting your tympanic membrane with an ear-splitting noise. Residential ones are bad enough, but the ones in offices are the worst.
That office building alarms are worse is all the more annoying since they theoretically shouldn't need to wake people from sleep.
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#79I wish fire alarms did this for half a second before blasting your tympanic membrane with an ear-splitting noise. Residential ones are bad enough, but the ones in offices are the worst.
That's a good idea! I bet if someone were to develop a residential smoke detector that did that it would sell well. (Especially if it had other compelling features like a 10-year battery.)
Nest Protect sort of does this.
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#80Some of the comments, just like PRE-SAFE SOUND, sound like an April Fool's Joke. But, apparently, it isn't. Very interesting, indeed. I never would have thought, that something like this might be an issue.