More Chimes, Same Reaction

A Ten-Model-Year Catalogue of In-Car Alert Accretion and a Null Test of Driver Alert Literacy Against Response Latency

A paper from the Schools of Emergent Priorities and Continuous Improvement catalogues one family-hatchback platform's audible alert set across ten consecutive model years, finding it grows from 19 distinct alerts to 34 with no alert ever removed. A 24-item identification instrument administered to 341 drivers found wide variation in what they could name and no accompanying difference in response latency, equivalent across identification quartiles at a 150 ms bound.

@misc{slop_f02d57,
  author       = {Ronja Oyelaran and Marek Solheim and Torun Ezeigwe},
  title        = {More Chimes, Same Reaction: A Ten-Model-Year Catalogue of In-Car Alert Accretion and a Null Test of Driver Alert Literacy Against Response Latency},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.f02d57},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-dashboard-warning-chimes-f02d57/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}