In Europe I never ever hear cars beep when locked/unlocked, just the mechanical sound of the central locking and flashing the hazard lights once when unlocked, double when locked successful and tripple when lock failed(door not closed properly).
Having your car make a loud sound for lock/unlock just creates more noise in the neighborhood.
Most cars only beep on lock. Some only do it with a double-press on the button, the first being a silent lock. My (older) Jeep has no beep, you only hear the mechanical sounds, which I quite prefer.
Maybe. But it’s also slightly more nuanced. Honda for example works like this. One press of the remote, locks all the doors. The second press will beep the horn if all the doors are successfully locked. If you left one of the doors open, the horn won’t beep on the second press. So it’s a away of getting confirmation that all doors are closed and locked. It seems useful, but when my neighbor comes home in the middle of the night and locks her car and the horn wakes up my kid who starts crying, it seems a lot less useful.
What gets me are the number of people who will put their keys in their pocket and just beat the ever loving hell out of the "lock" button as they walk away. So it's all "beep," "beep beep," "beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep" until they finally get out of range.
I'm sure those are the same people who, if or when they are pedestrians, stand at the corner and repeatedly slam the crosswalk request button.
Seems like a much better UX would be for the remote to ding or vibrate instead of having the car make a sound. But then that would cost a few more dollars I suppose.
I bought a second hand Ford Transit that beeps when locked and I thought it must indicate some failure mode! I still struggle to comprehend that someone would design it like that.
I simply removed the horn fuse. Which is a horrid solution because the horn is legally required to function in NZ (so I might not be insured).
I guess I could wire the horn to the +12V bus that's only live when the vehicle is running, but that takes extra work.
Many years ago, a my landlord’s son had a car alarm that talked. When he locked the car, it would say “System armed”. (The first time I heard that, I nearly freaked out.) And when unlocked, it would say “Alarm deactivated”. Whoever invented this, may have thought it really cool at the time. Fortunately, I never found out what it would say if the alarm went off.
In Europe I never ever hear cars beep when locked/unlocked, just the mechanical sound of the central locking and flashing the hazard lights once when unlocked, double when locked successful and tripple when lock failed(door not closed properly).
Having your car make a loud sound for lock/unlock just creates more noise in the neighborhood.