there are many "similar" chime noises for entirely different warnings on this page (no seatbelts; proximity alarms, ...). I'm not sure what is a good UI here, but I feel that this ain't it.
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#32> Cabin Noise during Acceleration with Ludicrous Enabled This one is pretty good.
I wonder if this from the spaceballs movie and whether they had to license the sound ...
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#33It's astounding just how quiet EV's are; they can make you hyperaware of other noises (hence why this page exists).
Is this universal? I've driven the Rav4 Prime and Ioniq 5 extensively and neither made weird sounds.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always wonder how you know so much about so many topics to make quality comments on a wide variety of topics on HN. Truly a jack of all trades. Maybe it's like how I spend so much time reading random Wikipedia articles on topics because I need to know how everything works.
Hm... too many projects :) And that list is only getting longer, I think I'll pass it on to my kids. Right now (and for the past couple of years) it has been mostly music but also still some more interesting tools to play with. Currently making a set of super realistic traffic lights for my youngest including pedestrian crossing and automatic cycle influencing (road coil pickup to detect car presence in front of the…
Oh cool, not to further derail this thread but the music direction is interesting. I've also just gotten (back) into music production using an MPC One+ and I used https://www.audiblegenius.com/ for music theory+ear training. A frequent theme I've noticed in Youtube tutorials is a ton of >35 software engineers mentioning they are getting into music and feeling the need to say how old they are, as I guess the meme is learning music is for naive 20yr olds.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hm... too many projects :) And that list is only getting longer, I think I'll pass it on to my kids. Right now (and for the past couple of years) it has been mostly music but also still some more interesting tools to play with. Currently making a set of super realistic traffic lights for my youngest including pedestrian crossing and automatic cycle influencing (road coil pickup to detect car presence in front of the…
Oh cool, not to further derail this thread but the music direction is interesting. I've also just gotten (back) into music production using an MPC One+ and I used https://www.audiblegenius.com/ for music theory+ear training. A frequent theme I've noticed in Youtube tutorials is a ton of >35 software engineers mentioning they are getting into music and feeling the need to say how old they are, as I guess the meme is l…
For me it was COVID that drove me back to music, I had a ton of time on my hands and we'd just bought an old (and really crappy) piano so I decided to get more serious about it. Long way to go though before I'll be satisfied with it, and I doubt I ever will be. Not giving up, it is just too much fun.
Thank you for that link!
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#36It's astounding just how quiet EV's are; they can make you hyperaware of other noises (hence why this page exists).
Is this universal? I've driven the Rav4 Prime and Ioniq 5 extensively and neither made weird sounds.
I've driven the Ioniq 5 and I can easily hear a high pitched motor whine at speeds between 45 and 60 mph. I cannot hear any noise below 45 or above 60, other than the intentional pedestrian warning sound.
I suspect as I age my ability to hear such high pitched whine will be gone.
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#37> Cabin Noise during Acceleration with Ludicrous Enabled This one is pretty good.
I don't get it. OK there are sounds to let you know the car is falling apart constantly, but this one is ambient sound of people encouraging you to accelerate??
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#38What's the UX reason to use a chime rather than an (customisable) announcement? I suppose I'd get used to the alarms if I used the car but all of them on a page is confusing.
Confirmation tones are used to convey that the car registered a deliberate user action (e.g. a button press). For example whenever you press the unlock button on your key fob, it would quickly become annoying if the car announced "The car is now locked". In the case of confirmation, you know what the tone is signaling, because you just performed the action to create the tone (and don't need a lecture about it).
Mildly abrasive 'alert' tones are preferred for warnings over announcements because alerts typically require immediate action. You could follow the alert tone by an announcement but this is typically unnecessary because the the first time you hear it, the tone will be seared into your memory (e.g. you are messing with the radio and suddenly hear the lane departure warning or forward collision warning). And you really don't need to distinguish between them - they all basically mean "immediately allocate all cognitive resources towards driving this death machine safely".
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#39i wonder if they've put any effort in having the car listen to itself and explain ordinary sounds (and alert on problematic ones).
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always wonder how you know so much about so many topics to make quality comments on a wide variety of topics on HN. Truly a jack of all trades. Maybe it's like how I spend so much time reading random Wikipedia articles on topics because I need to know how everything works.
Hm... too many projects :) And that list is only getting longer, I think I'll pass it on to my kids. Right now (and for the past couple of years) it has been mostly music but also still some more interesting tools to play with. Currently making a set of super realistic traffic lights for my youngest including pedestrian crossing and automatic cycle influencing (road coil pickup to detect car presence in front of the…
Even more off-topic, but something I’m struggling with personally: how do you find the time for projects, with kids in the picture? Me, I can just barely eke out a truncated workday, then it’s kids and housework until the kids go to sleep and maybe 1.5 hours of time until bed, which mostly I spend with my partner.
So I see people with diverse interests and kids and I just wonder: how!