Fake sounds

[ppppenguin]

Some of this may be urban legend but most of it seems plausible:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/cl...533769.stm

[AlanBeckett]

Jeffrey,
I read that not 15 minutes ago.
Why are there only Urban Legends? Why not Metropolitan, or Country, or Shires, or Northern, or Southern, or Suburban, or .......
Alan

[Yorkie]

It's certainly a fact that many devices which we use would make no sound at all unless the sound had been 'manufactured' to make us think we have heard a mechanical keyclick. Mobile phones, cameras, those touch screen terminals that delivery wallahs use which have a stylo to sign your name on a screen, the end result of which looks like 'etch-a-sketch'.

One sound I wish they would make much louder is that of car indicators. I have good hearing, but most of the cars I drive, whether my own, my wife's or hire cars, seem to have quiet clicks, and not very bright panel indicator lights. True, they self cancel when turning a corner, but not when pulling out to overtake, or exiting via a slip road. Of course, we are supposed to engage our brains too, and to concentrate on our driving!

When I rode a motorbike, which I sold a couple of years ago, the indicators weren't self-cancelling, so I fitted an oscillator with a little amp and speaker powered from each front winker. Thus, whenever the winker was on, a loud 800Hz tone came out of the speaker which I could hear with my helmet on.

Very crucial to ensure that winkers are cancelled, and even more so on a motorbike, because if your LH winker is still on but you intened to drive stright ahead, somone may drive out af a side road into your path. No airbags on a motorbike!

David

[Brianc]

The "extra" noise which annoys me is the squeeks some cars, BMTroubleyous for example, make when you lock or unlock them remotely. Why??? The only reason I can think of is if the "locker" is blind and cannot see the indicators flash and, of course, if you're blind, why are you locking a car :s.