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.

Chevrolet symbols page has now been re-ordered by color

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Chevrolet symbols page Our Chevrolet symbols page has now been aligned by color. We’ve have now transformed a dozen pages, including our primary symbols page, to reflect the new color ordering. The page features a number approaching 100 indicators, now ordered red through black, white or gray scale. This generally provides a “mostly serious” to …

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Three new entries added to our acronyms page

Acronyms page swells Our update of the Mazda dashboard symbols page netted three new entries for our acronyms page. In effect, it shows that manufacturers need to stand apart from each other. Cruising & Traffic Support (CTS) is a part of Mazda’s i-ACTIVESENSE system. The system is already a renaming of Advanced Driver Assist Systems, …

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Glaring mistake made in latest Mazda owner’s manuals

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Mazda owner’s manuals In our opinion, there a glaring mistake in the 2025 Mazda owner’s manuals, that is repeated over and over and therefore likely intended. The company has left images out of the list of warning symbols and indicators in favor of embedding them into the text. The problem with this approach is that …

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Mazda dashboard symbols update nets 17 new indicators

Mazda dashboard symbols A full review of 2024 and 2025 models results in the addition of 17 new indicators to the Mazda dashboard symbols page. This is due to the addition of a number of new technologies to Mazda models. The most significant one is from what the company calls Cruising & Traffic Support (CTS), …

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Collision warning and intervention system indicators now number 29

Collision Warning and Intervention Our Collision Warning and Intervention page now features 29 entries. We added another today from Mazda, who also uses a different name for the system: Smart Brake Support (SBS). That’s now nine different naming conventions for the same basic system. Plus, our Collision Warning and Intervention page begins with a an …

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Lane keeping assist page swells to 33 entries

Lane keeping assist Lane Keeping Assist page now hold 33 entries. This comes courtesy of Mazda, which calls its system Emergency Lane Keeping (ELK), growing the number of name options to 10, because of course, why use a single name for the same system! Several manufacturers use the first image to the right to indicate …

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Mazda symbols page joins the new color presentation change list

Mazda symbols page In advance of an update of our Mazda symbols page, we thought it would be prudent to rearrange the page by color, as we have been doing with all our dashboard symbols pages over the last several weeks. The process for the Mazda page is now complete. Beginning with our primary symbols …

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