City trucks to use new backup sound
City-owned trucks will be using a new backup warning sound instead of a beep, and it’s linked here, and it sounds like ass.
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denpanosekai 20:57 on 2022-03-17 Permalink
This is what it already sounds like in Verdun, in fact that’s how I’ve always heard it for the past 5+ years.
MarcG 21:11 on 2022-03-17 Permalink
Ditto (except a couple of rogue snow removal vehicles that still beep). Sounds like shit but doesn’t wake you up like the beeping does.
mare 22:57 on 2022-03-17 Permalink
New for Montreal maybe, but not for the world. (I’ve been hearing it for years, but probably not on city vehicles.)
This article (which is not only about Amazon), explains why the new sounds are better:
https://www.inputmag.com/tech/amazon-trucks-backup-reverse-beep-broadband-sound-safety
DeWolf 09:10 on 2022-03-18 Permalink
Strange they’re just announcing this now. As the article notes, “la Ville avait entamé ce changement d’alarmes en 2019.”
DavidH 09:23 on 2022-03-18 Permalink
It’s the same in Rosemont and the Plateau.
Kate 09:30 on 2022-03-18 Permalink
I haven’t been conscious of hearing it, but maybe I simply didn’t process it as a warning signal.
carswell 10:03 on 2022-03-18 Permalink
In several of the houses immediately behind my apartment building, the entrance to the basement garage is through the back. There’s no alley, meaning the owners have paved over their backyard paradises and put up a parking lot. It’s a tight space for snowplows and so involves lots of backing up. For years, I was regularly woken up at 4 a.m. on winter mornings. But this winter, not once. And it’s not that I’ve become a sounder sleeper — quite the opposite in fact. This new sound is a change for the better.
Blork 10:39 on 2022-03-18 Permalink
Kate, if you haven’t been hearing it, that shows it’s working. The BEEP BEEP BEEP sound can carry for blocks, but that new ass sound is only really noticeable when you’re in the “danger zone” so to speak.
I think it’s a great idea. That BEEP BEEP BEEP sound drives me crazy. Last summer there was some road work going on half a block from my house, and there was some kind of vehicle that was backing up literally two times a minute all day. So even indoors, half a block away, I had BEEP BEEP BEEP happening all day long, for days, and it was driving me nuts. I did NOT have to hear that if I’m nowhere near the vehicle that’s backing up!
Jonathan 10:58 on 2022-03-18 Permalink
In Vietnam, trucks that back up play the Lambada. I think that would be awesome to hear on the streets of Montreal.
See this video : https://youtu.be/F9F73stJDT4
qatzelok 12:26 on 2022-03-18 Permalink
The main problem with the beep-beep sound is that it carries for up to 2 km.
This is far outside any danger zone, and this is why parks and other open areas have a permanent beep-beep soundtrack, until all truckes are switched to the much shorter-range zkrich-zkrich sound.
JaneyB 17:58 on 2022-03-18 Permalink
What a beautiful day! I absolutely loathe the beep-beep sound. May the new sound warning be adopted by all the current beepers.