@ 小耿 果壳谣言粉碎机编辑，神经生物学硕士 ψ
实际上，Humansinvent.com的说法是引用自：
Webster, Ben. "Makers to swap silence of electric cars for safer sound of Star Wars." Times, The (United Kingdom) (May 4, 2010): 16. Newspaper Source Plus, EBSCOhost (accessed December 11, 2011).
There is a long history of artificial sounds, smells and colours being added to products to make them safer or more attractive:
An unpleasant odour has been added to natural gas since 300 children died in 1937 after a leak at a Texas school went unnoticed（燃气中添加令人警觉的气味）
Digital cameras make the sound of a shutter closing to reassure users（数码相机发出咔塔声“以使用户安心”。关于这一点在snopes网站的论坛里也引起了争议，有网友指出这种声音不是为了使人“安心”，而是提醒使用者拍照已完成。也有网友指出在一些地区的法律中强制规定了数码相机必须发出声音以提醒周围的人）
Cash machines whirr to convince us that our money is on its way（这句可能就是整个流言的最初源头）
Manufacturers use dye to make strawberry ice-cream pink, ketchup red and squash orange（在水果口味冰激凌中添加色素）
If the cash-machine sounds are fake, you can understand why designers would make them so. As the great philosopher Jerry Seinfeld once mused:
They really got us trained to use that cash machine now, don’t they? We’re just like chickens in an experiment waiting for that pellet to come down the chute.
You see people at the cash machine; they’re just there. Just, dit dit dit dit dit dit dit, they’re waiting for the sound, you know the sound, you’re waiting for the sound. That’s what we’re trained to hear, the ‘here comes the money’ sound, ya know?
Flip flip flip flip flip flip flip. It’s exciting, don’t you get excited? It’s coming! It’s coming! They’re giving me money!
Humans Invent countered by pointing to a Times (of London) story about artificial electric car sounds that quickly and offhandedly also mentions a few other purportedly fake features added to various technologies over the years:
• An unpleasant odour has been added to natural gas since 300 children died in 1937 after a leak at a Texas school went unnoticed
• Digital cameras make the sound of a shutter closing to reassure users
• Cash machines whirr to convince us that our money is on its way
• Manufacturers use dye to make strawberry ice-cream pink, ketchup red and squash orange
Word of these claims quickly spread online, and in a thread at Reddit, several commenters who say they’ve worked on ATMs for years called B.S. One wrote:
I serviced ATM/ABM machines for over 4 years, there is no artificial sound, the machines really are that loud (and about 10 times louder with the vault door opened) the belts that are spinning to deliver the cash from the cash cassettes to the customer are by no means “practically silent.” And there is no f***in brick wall in the MIDDLE of the damn machines.
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