How to keep sound on when backing up.

My car just reduces the sound, not turn it off. You probably have to program the computer to change it, not user options for it. Many cars now restrict the use of radio and navigation while in reverse.

Do you drive backwards? What's the amount of time you back up...? 15, 30 seconds tops? You're seriously concerned about something important on the radio you need to stop for 30 seconds of backing up?

I'd hate to see you when a real crisis arises.

Do you ever listen to a serious discussion show, or anything other than music? The loss of 20 seconds can distort or cloud everything the person says.

Don't be silly.

That would probably be okay.

I found the owners manual. It 's 600 pages!

It's a Honda Jazz, which is supposed to be the same a Fit.

Earlier, I tried to set the time, which was an hour off, an hour, 3 years and one month. I found "Time" but not how to set it. Then connected the phone with bluetooth and the time became correct. Later it was wrong again.

I'm glad I learned about this on a rental car. I will remember to play the radio while test-driving any car I buy in the future. I've only had the car for a week and it's really annoying.

Why not ban the radio when going forward too! People spend a lot more time going forward.

My 2000 Toyota solara convertible wouldn't let me put the top up or down when the car was going more than about 3 mph. But I found the wire from the body computer to the to the top relay and cut it. Same with

According to some newspaper article online, back up cameras have cut by only 10 percent (in cars that have them) the number of times someone backs into a person.

I imagine those 10% are happy about it. Most cars have a terrible view out the back. I love the camera in my car. I have a 10,2" screen and gives the back, of course, but also a surround view. Some cars to have crappy small viewing screens and probably are not that good.

Ed Pawlowski snipped-for-privacy@snet.xxx wrote

Specially the ones that have avoided killing their little kids who have been run over like that. I actually know one person who managed to do that.

Yeah, even when just backing an empty trailer that you can't actually see.

Surprisingly few have a completely integrated set of cameras that automatically show you the front and back corner of the car that is closest to something when parking etc.

And which operate as 360 degree dashcams when driving and 360 degree surveillance cameras when parked etc.

I have one and also an Eye Sight system which apparently has front and rear emergency braking. Couple of weeks ago backing up in the Walmart parking lot a woman darted in back of my car and a beep went off and car appeared to slow down. It was disconcerting because my wife just happened to call me at the time and the cell phone Blue Toothed to the car also rang.

Using my separate GPS in the car for the first time, the radio stopped. I don't know how it knew that the GPS was there but I found that the radio had just turned itself way down and I probably could have used it with the GPS on.

Sometimes you can tinker with the cars options to get the behavior that you want.

LMAO! You're concerned about 20 second segment you "may" miss due to backing up a car which I'm sure isn't often and you call me silly. LMAO! That's funny.

I would also imagine that if the radio volume was to automatically reduce to below bleeding-ears level when backing up, the driver would most likely be able to hear little Suzie screaming "DADDY, STOP!!!!".

Yeah spose so.

Part of the Honda Distracted Driver Safety System. Unless you can access the developer menu in the system using a scan tool and dealer code it cannot be turned off.

What's silly is thinking that because I want to solve a small problem, I wouldn't want to solve (and be good at solving) big problems. It works the opposite way. People who let themselves be thumped by little problems also get thumped by big ones.

I know darn well that every time I had to go in reverse since I've had this car (7 days) I've missed what the speaker was saying. Five times a day at least, and when exploring back woods and desert roads with dead ends and move civilized places with parking spots more like 15 or 20 times a day. If I owned the car for 5 years, just using 5 times a day, that's 9000 times.

I guess when life gives you problems and inconveniences, you just let life push you around. I don't. I like to make my life better. But you can just suck it up if you want.

That's a good point, and if there had been any small children around in the tens of 1000's of times I've backed up over the last decade, for example, it would apply to me. But there haven't been.

Well I can't on a rental car, or while traveling. Oh well, it was worth asking. But if Toyota has anything like it, I do have the ability to set those hidden settings.

After a bunch of work, I got it to work on my car at home, but it's a

that's because when anyone sees you driving, be it children or adults, they get the hell away.

You are information-adicted. Seek help -- but preferably not on the Internet.

You won't miss much while backing up.

Most radio stations are 50% commercials, 45% blah-blah-blah-fake-laugh-blah-blah-blah-fake-laugh-etc and 5% music.

But its not feasible for the car to work out if you ever have any little kids around and even if it could, doesn't cover the situation where someone comes to visit with a little kid with them.

What would be a much better approach would be to allow the radio to back up over what you missed automatically like some TVs do. Still kill the audio when backing but continue on as if there had been no quiet period when not backing anymore.

LMAO! Still funny. No, I don't concern myself with trivial problems, thus, it's not a problem. I know how to choose my battles and missing a

Perhaps you need to stop exploring back woods and desert roads or rent/buy a small vehicle which will allow a small radius to turn around. Though, it's concerning what your objective is to explore these roads. But better yet, I think you need help to overcome your anxiety over trivial issues. Considering the amount of issues you post within this group, I'm willing to bet the accuracy of your disorder is spot on.