What's the UX reason to use a chime rather than an (customisable) announcement?
I suppose I'd get used to the alarms if I used the car but all of them on a page is confusing.
I suppose I'd get used to the alarms if I used the car but all of them on a page is confusing.
Mildly abrasive 'alert' tones are preferred for warnings over announcements because alerts typically require immediate action. You could follow the alert tone by an announcement but this is typically unnecessary because the the first time you hear it, the tone will be seared into your memory (e.g. you are messing with the radio and suddenly hear the lane departure warning or forward collision warning). And you really don't need to distinguish between them - they all basically mean "immediately allocate all cognitive resources towards driving this death machine safely".
Ha, I'm having flashbacks to my neighbor's old Chrysler New Yorker (from the K car era). "The door is ajar, the door is ajar." And couldn't just say it was open, that doesn't sound fancy enough.
> the first time you hear it, the tone will be seared into your memory
Indeed, the joke is that the Tesla alert tone causes PTSD after you hear it the first time.