Beeping must be stopped!

An impassioned plea to product designers everywhere: Stop beeping! There has never been a situation in memory when something beeped, and I was happy that it did so. My coworker was awakened in the middle of the night by a beeping cell phone. It's battery was running out. So what! I'll take care of it in the morning.

My Honda beeps when I try to open the door and it is locked. I can figure that out. I am going to disconnnect the whining piezo when I find it. My neighbor's car honks its horn when it is started remotely. It wakes me up. My smoke detectors beep once every two minutes when their batteries run out. I can't tell which one is beeping.

The beeping for trucks and equipment backing up must be revisited. More people have died from auto accidents due to loss of sleep from this beeping than have been saved by not getting run over by a backing truck.

How about these design principles: if you must beep, allow me to turn it off. Allow me to turn it on, for accessibility reasons, if the beeping is meaningful.