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What happened to "talking" cars?

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  1. qdllc

    qdllc Senior Member

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    You'd think in today's world of common technology in most everything, the Prius, of any car, would have a computer voice that speaks to you with common messages.

    Lights are on.

    Door is ajar.

    Someone just rear-ended you, Jack! :LOL:

    Did the novelty just die off?
     
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    it's annoying. like the gps. even worse than the beeping, but easier to understand i suppose.
     
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    There's a thread going here, someone self-installed a robot voice, gives blow-by-blow of what the car's doing, going into EV for example. Annoying as heck, in my opinion.

    I cracked up, listening to our Aussie-voiced Garmin mangling Hawaii street names,.
     
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    I want this GPS voice for my GPS.

     
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    Good old Brian Blessed - a good Yorkshire man (y)
     
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    My dads 85 Maxima, which became my first car when I turned 17, 'talked'. Fuel level is low, right door is ajar, those kinds of things... It was a cool trick in 85', now, not so much.

    Now if a car could hold a conversation with you like K.I.T.T. could, I'd be all for that, lol.
     
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    don't you have a wife or a GF?
     
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    Another reason you should continue to post here.....
     
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    your blinker is on...
     
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    ...and built in Navi. "Why are you going this way?"
     
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    do you know my wife???:p
     
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    No, but had mine 29 years in two weeks.
     
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    oh, you're just a baby, but congrats.:)
     
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    Thanks, however we had ten years before the ring.
     
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    okay, you're getting closer. we're at 40 altogether.
     
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    No, but you may have answered the question for time immemorial. :ROFLMAO:
     
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