It's hitting cars too. Our 2026 Chevy equinox has so many alarms and chimes that we have zero control over, the worst one has no notification of what its alerting us of.

As a pretty decent driver, this terrifies me, because I first think, "What am I missing?" But then it hits me - these alarms and chimes are breeding generations of drivers, not just young ones, who are grossly incompetent and should not be driving.

The fact that I cannot control what alarms go off is asinine. And they put a lock on how low you can turn the chime volume. So, basically, you're telling me that I have to harass my neighbors at 5 am when I load the car for work, because you want to chime nonstop when the door is open and I have zero control to turn it off or lower than the locked minimum. Oh, and don't forget the threats of voiding the warrantee if you dig deeper to disable anything. My favorite alarm and warning pops up randomly when you're driving, sometimes blocking the map, and it says something to the effect of, "Remember to stay focused on driving!"

I see this slipping into not just alerts and notifications, but also ads. Waze does not care if they block my directions by blasting an ad on part of my screen, which has absolutely caused me to miss exits since they don't want to tell you the exit ahead of time on longer strips, only, "drive for 45 miles"...

I see this like popups, and if industry can't handle themselves they need to be forced to stop doing this altogether and find a rework, since it's clearly affecting private and public machines that could burnout or kill people.

The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act makes it clear that digging deeper cannot void any warrantee except unless they can show you caused the issue via digging deeper. You may needa lawyer to enforce it.

On my 2025 rav4 the dealer can turn off a bunch of the chimes. I basically told them to turn off everything.