New whelen "pedestrian clearing" tones

[Jarred J.]

 

[Sparky_911]

Interesting. Bet they would work great in big cities and sound loud enough to over ride headphones/earbuds.
The tone pitch is a good as well.

 

[Nolines]

Add the fact he's using a whelen howler as well and it's interesting.

 

[Da-Sarge]

Pedestrians tend to be a pain to get clear i wonder if this tone will be available for the sencom sappire after all theres still loads of cencom sapphires and golds still in service

 

[JazzDad]

Close encounters of the weird kind.

 

[Nolines]

Checked with my tech at whelen, no such animal... Still....

 

[Da-Sarge]

Ahh its an interesting tone but I dont know how effective it will be they also need to figure out how to utilize the RDS features in cars today to alert drivers to move and a thing that broadcasts to cellphones around the vehicle to stay clear of approaching emergency vehicle we have the tech to do this already it would help drastically in my opinion make these alerts unable to be dismissed till the vehicle has passed

 

[classifieds869294]

Sounds crazy but I guess that’s the point

 

[WhelenNDealin]

In Japan, police only use a simulated mechanical tone. They have one that is a 4 second rise/fall and an 8 second one that holds the peak for a few seconds. They usually use this one when there's a ton of pedestrians. Their ambulances have a harmonic version of their hi-lo that's for similar purposes, plus some have a mechanical that they'll blast.

Fire vehicles will use a simulated bell tone for the same purposes in addition to their simulated mechanical. FD and EMS also use electronic voice annunciators saying a message like "ambulance approaching from the left, make way". LE speak over their PAs constantly to this effect.

Believe it or not, it works pretty damn well, despite the oceans of people at some crosswalks. Then again, their culture is just a teesny tiny bit different .