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by neor 499 days ago
I've had a new Toyota Corolla over the weekend, and the beeps were driving me nuts.

The car reads signs, and beeps everytime it detects a change in speed limit. If you go over the speed limit, even if its 1 km/h the car starts beeping as well.

I never drive really fast, when the car says I'm driving 1 KM over the limit my GPS speed usually is 5 below. This makes the signals extra annoying.

They should have used beeps when you're 10 or more over the speed limit or something like that so you don't get spammed with notifications all the time. The system being as it is, I'm 100% sure I will get it removed by a tuning shop.
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mrcsharp 499 days ago
I noticed this ~5KM/H difference between my GPS and the speedometer of a Toyota 2014 model. I checked and it had to do with liability apparently[1]

https://www.reddit.com/r/CarsAustralia/comments/10d4g0b/spee...

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mcv 499 days ago
It has always been common for cars to estimate your speed a bit on the high side, because there's always a margin of error, and that way you don't accidentally go over the speed limit while thinking you're still below it.

But for a car to start beeping (or worse, interfering), they'd better use that margin of error in the other direction.

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mrcsharp 499 days ago
I can't stand all the beeping. It is wild how police are so against using mobile phones while driving (and they are right) but allow all these other distractions to run rampant in modern cars and distract drivers.

How we allow massive touch screens in Tesla's and other modern cars is beyond me.

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ryandrake 499 days ago
I normally drive a 15 year old car, and recently traveled and had to rent a car at my destination. This thing was infuriating and constantly annoying in so many ways. I had to return the first one because I couldn't figure out the touch screen (!!), and the replacement I got just beeped and booped constantly for reasons unknown. I couldn't even figure out how to use the radio. It kept asking me to log in (to what??) just to use the nav system.

Of all the signals of "I'm getting elderly," who knew I'd first start feeling like this from trying to use a car?

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guappa 499 days ago
I'm in my 30s and I'm the same. Also the touchscreen reflecting the sun in my eyes is a source of annoyance.
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