Category: Articles & Commentaries

Discussions on topics of interest to drivers concerning things they may not understand about their vehicles as well as articles on the future of the auto industry.

We followed some bad schema advice — don’t do the same

Schema advice There’s little reason for any of you out there to know this, but DashboardSymbols.com has been a sinking ship for the last year and a half. Attempts to rescue the site and its revenue led most recently to following some bad schema advice. For the record, “Schema markup, also known as structured data, …

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Full review of Toyota back up entry and start processes finds no changes

Toyota back up A full review of 2022 to 2024 models results in no changes to the Toyota back up entry and start page. All Toyota models use the tried and true “push the start/stop button with the back of the key fob” to start the vehicles. In fact all the company’s models have used …

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The Mercedes-Benz symbols page has now been re-ordered by color

Mercedes-Benz symbols As we deal with an extensive Toyota update involving 20-odd models, we took the time re-align our Mercedes-Benz symbols page by color. That is now 37 pages transformed to reflect the new color ordering, including our primary pictographic symbols page. We are more than three fourths of the way through the reordering of …

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New entry on our Acronym Page

Acronym Page Update A new entry to our acronym page has posted: Lane Tracing Assist (LTA) Sometimes, a symbol or indicator seen on an instrument panel and hosted here on the site is in the form of a three or four letter Acronym or Abbreviation, as with the example. Auto manufacturers assume that any given …

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Lexus symbols page now fully updated

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Lexus symbols It was a slog, but the Lexus symbols page update is at long last finished. We added 28 symbols and indicators to a page that already featured more than 100. Seventeen of those additions are brand new. To date, only Ford has required more additions, coming in at 75. There are now over …

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Get in, get out: where is @NHTSA on pointless and dangerous electronic locks and latches?

Electronic locks Getting out We published our first item in July of 2015 pointing out the dangers inherent with electronic locks and latches. We called then for the use of intuitive means of exit in the event of a power failure and after a man and his dog succumbed to the heat in Texas in …

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Another Get Out update, where is @NHTSA?

Get Out No, not the movie, our Get Out update relates to a page we put up years ago after a man and his dog died of heat exposure locked in a Chevrolet Corvette. The car was one of the first to use electric locks and latches and while there is a mechanical means of …

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