English is the universal aviation language.

In other contexts there is no such language, and I can see how the politics of which and how many languages we should include in our car messages may well result in a "let's just use beeps" decision.

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dwroberts 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They have to supply written documentation in an appropriate language too, I don’t think it would be that difficult for it to have a voice language pack to match.

	▲	hahajk 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You're talking about an industry that gives you a generic "check engine" light and allows dealerships to charge you $100 just to read you the error message. I don't have any faith that they have the wherewithal to make any common sense design choices about error states.

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WalterBright 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You cannot look up "beep" in the manual when you have 40 beeps.

You are not objectively worse off with a word than a beep, even if you do not understand the word.

Driving a car with beeps and chimes and dings means they all mush together and get ignored.