Spoken warnings
In the mid-1980s several carmakers fitted spoken warnings, most of them produced by speech-synthesis chips.
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- Cars
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About
Cars from Austin Rover, Renault, Audi and Nissan announced open doors, lights left on, the handbrake or low fuel, usually as part of a new electronic instrument panel. Drivers could often switch the voice off, the Montego’s system proved unreliable, and most makers dropped the feature within a few model years.
- Defining technology
- Elements in its photos
- Instrument cluster
- Primary input
- Climate controls
Cars
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Photo credits
Photo credits (5)
- Austin Maestro (LM10), cockpit“Maestro vp” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Decampos · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- Renault 11 (Mk1), instrument cluster“Tableau de bord renault 11 electronic” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Pouichi1973 · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
- Audi quattro (Typ 85), cockpit“1990 Audi Quattro 20V - Flickr - The Car Spy (9)” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: The Car Spy · CC BY 2.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
- Nissan 300ZX (Z31), cockpit“Nissan 300ZX Turbo T-top 50th Anniversary (Canadian spec.), interior” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Kazyakuruma · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons
- Renault 25 (X29), cockpit“Renault 25 TI interior” (opens in a new tab) · Photo: Klaus Nahr from Germany · CC BY-SA 2.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons