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Early 1980s Datsun/Nissan Voice Alert phonograph unit [video]
Author : mean_mistreater
Score : 60 points
Date : 2023-06-12 07:02 UTC (15 hours ago)
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| dumbfounder wrote:
| We had a 1984 Nissan 300zx growing up, it said "door is ajar".
| Perfect Dad joke setup.
| brk wrote:
| I thought it was the Chrysler New Yorker that used "door is
| ajar"?
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIpfUuRg1VE
| dumbfounder wrote:
| Ha, I like that one even better "a door is a jar". No it
| isn't!
|
| Here is some more evidence about nissan doing the same, but I
| can't find a video:
|
| https://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbside-classics-
| asian/curb...
|
| "In 1982, the ZX was facelifted, with an updated NACA hood
| duct, alloy wheels, taillights, more integrated bumpers, and
| other minor trim changes. '82s were also bestowed with the
| infamous voice warning system, shared with the Maxima sedan.
| Among other things, it would inform you that your door was in
| fact, really a jar. I imagine it was a feature that was neat
| for the first two weeks, after which point it would slowly
| drive the owner insane."
| reverheart wrote:
| I have an '84 300zx Turbo. It doesn't say "door ajar", and
| instead says "Left (Right) door is open" if I try to drive away
| with a door not properly closed. There's no dad joke set up.
| MisterTea wrote:
| "door is ajar" - jar of what, jelly? (and other variations)
|
| That joke was already old in the 90's.
| philjohn wrote:
| Meanwhile feigning fear and going "where is it?!?!? where's
| the bear?!?!?" after the GPS says "Bear right" will never get
| old (no matter what my children's eye rolls might be trying
| to say).
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| Chrysler did it better:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjUvBxvVQNk
| jeffrallen wrote:
| The over-optimizer in me is screaming "why is the bong on the
| analog track?"
|
| The simplifier in me is screaming " Cool, less circuitry!"
| kgwxd wrote:
| Look Mum No Computer did a really cool hack with one of these:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3EuP7vZRSo
| libpcap wrote:
| I'd like to hear the Japanese version of this.
| 404mm wrote:
| I'm willing to bet the Japanese version sounds much more urgent
| and serious lol
| Melting_Harps wrote:
| > I'd like to hear the Japanese version of this.
|
| >> I'm willing to bet the Japanese version sounds much more
| urgent and serious lol
|
| You be the judge [0], in a US spec LHD Z31 no less.
|
| There is a whole market for these kind of things, and Nissan
| Japan has been well aware of this. Check out the aftermarkets
| try at this anime sounding DASAI unit in an S15 [1].
|
| Nissan JP took it even further when it announced its e-Power
| system and marketed a sort of anime waifu option as a co-pilot.
| I can't remember which it was, but it was really strange to see
| what was once a niche thing only geeks did in order to out-
| JDM/USDM each other on the internet or car meets to that.
|
| 0: https://youtube.com/shorts/KtwcnUy9Rak?feature=share
|
| 1: https://youtube.com/shorts/iGrSAxM3OHI?feature=share
| ElevenLathe wrote:
| One of these features memorably in the Kinky Friedman book
| "Armadillos and Old Lace".
| ajb wrote:
| This sort of mechanism was in toys at that point, for example
| this Doctor Who K9 robot toy:
|
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eXWEUCgw5e0
| kamranjon wrote:
| Does anyone understand what it does to play different recordings
| on the same physical surface? Are they interlocking spirals and
| it has slightly different starting point? Curious what's allowing
| it to use the same space for different recordings without
| swapping out mini records between plays.
| phire wrote:
| Yeah, 6 interleaved spirals, allowing it to select a track by
| timing when it drops the stylus.
|
| There are 6 electrical contacts spaced around the disc that
| close at the correct timing for each track.
|
| This is described in the patent (pdf)
| https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/74/b1/1c/cb2bf12...
| stronglikedan wrote:
| Linked by another poster below:
|
| https://jalopnik.com/1982-datsun-voice-warning-box-used-tiny...
| vrtnis wrote:
| Actually, a few other cars had similar voice alert systems e.g.,
| Mitsubishi and Oldsmobile.On the Oldsmobile the speech synthesis
| (Digitalker) was engineered by National Semiconductor. This page
| has more on it https://www.hagerty.com/media/car-
| profiles/talking-car-from-...
| vandahm wrote:
| When I was a small child, my dad drove a 1983 Datsun Maxima that
| had this. As cheesy at it seems today, it felt magical and
| impossibly high-tech at the time, especially to me.
| Melting_Harps wrote:
| I grew up with Nissan my whole life, even worked for them for a
| bit when I was in the Auto Industry: it ranged from S30s,
| Hardbodies, B11/12, several L and D chassis, and then my own
| foray with mainly S chassis.
|
| And can confirm it's a thing. Hell I still make the bing-bong
| chime (sounded like it was saying NI SAN) before the engine
| turned over in any car (over 50 now) I've ever owned because of
| those memories.
|
| While Nissan may not be in it's glory days anymore, maybe the
| EV era will allow things to get exciting again.
|
| 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyEtcURyOmY
| leo8 wrote:
| You had 50 cars til now? What are you doing to those cars?
| Driving not longer than a year?
| Melting_Harps wrote:
| > You had 50 cars til now?
|
| Easily. Probably before even hitting my early 30s.
|
| The term is known as carcaine for a reason, funny enough I
| attribute not getting into (much) trouble growing up to
| cars, and it's what gave me access to meeting more people
| in tech/engineering/medical fields than just about anything
| else when I was outside of it. I spent most of my teenage
| years and young adult life immersed in motorsports at
| various levels and as I said worked in the auto industry
| for a while.
|
| I had delusions of being a GT pilot for a while, too; so
| given the company I kept I got access to a lot of
| cheap/crashed chassis or front clips with misc parts to
| make things out of for a while. My first 2 businesses were
| all car/car part based, fintech was the outlier in that
| regard.
|
| > What are you doing to those cars? Driving not longer than
| a year?
|
| Bought, fixed, drove, got bored and sold/traded mainly.
|
| 50 is conservative to be honest. I still own my very first
| car, which also makes that same chime noise I mentioned.
|
| Time wise... hard to say, I just keep them until I no
| longer want to deal with them and do the aforementioned or
| give it away if all else fails.
|
| The only Nissan I still really want but haven't owned is a
| Nissan Patrol, which I almost bought when I was in Europe,
| but decided against it at the last minute and bought a
| really cool MK4 GTI to teach my friend how to drive and
| eventually give to him.
|
| I got a Land Cruiser when I got back to the US instead and
| I'm happy with my purchase.
|
| Sidenote: its stupidly easy to get a car registered to
| drive in Germany, even as a auslander, if you play their
| stupid games; what they get you on is that TUV BS which is
| honestly just another of making sure people subsidize the
| auto industry--who are incredibly powerful in that country
| and write many of the laws.
| mfragin wrote:
| I can't believe this showed up on the front page today! I was
| just talking to a co-worker about this:
|
| Back in 1989, my college buddy Matt had a used Sentra that had
| that same voice. We assumed his got "warped" or something because
| the inflection of the female voice kind of rises at the end of
| some of her statements, making her sound annoyed with the
| human(s).
|
| Listening to the video, however, it sounds exactly like I
| remembered--so I guess that was standard.
| mean_mistreater wrote:
| Described at https://jalopnik.com/1982-datsun-voice-warning-box-
| used-tiny...
| brk wrote:
| Whoever recorded those messages seemed a bit aroused about the
| right door being open.
| jkingsman wrote:
| Yeah there's some intensity in those door announcements for
| sure.
|
| Sounds like the kind of intonation you get from being in a
| recording studio having your diction of four words picked apart
| so much they stop being words and suddenly you can't even say
| them in a neutral tone. "clipped vowel on 'right'" "emphasize
| 'door'" "nice long vowel on 'open'" and then you end up with...
| whatever that was.
| mfragin wrote:
| I posted about this at top level, but should have done so
| here. My friends and I assumed our buddy's car had a warped
| disk or something that caused her to sound slightly pissed
| off. :-)
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