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.

Boy did we mess up our primary picture symbols page!

Primary picture symbols page Its repaired now, but we managed to completely screw up the transformation of our primary picture symbols page! A whole lot of original coding somehow stuck from its previous iteration. It might be obvious to those viewing the page, which is here, that the symbols are arranged in tables. Well, somehow …

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Our primary picture symbols page has been completely transformed

Primary picture symbols page We just completed the transformation of our primary picture symbols page. It now moves through picture symbols by color, red, yellow/amber/orange (depending on how a driver sees the color), on to green and blue and finally black and white and gray scale indicators. We kept three other sub-groups on the page …

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Kia Niro EV first impressions

Kia Niro EV The lease on my Polestar 2 recently expired, and I purchased a pre-owned 2022 Kia Niro EV outright (22,000 miles). Over the last few years a rather healthy used EV market has developed, which is great for the industry. The Kia does not have the prestige of the Polestar but there were …

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Primary picture symbols page to get a gray scale table

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Primary picture symbols page In order to fully transform our primary picture symbols page, we needed a table of gray scale indicators. Or more properly, black and white and gray scale indicators. The page currently uses tables of various categories of indicators that, due to shear numbers — over 800 entries — has become impossible …

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Jeep symbols page now color coded

Jeep symbols page One of our most visited pages, the Jeep symbols page, is now the third to be aligned by color. We started what is big change on the site with Infiniti, finished the family adding Nissan, and will move through the pages visited the most. This page features over 100 entries, one of …

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How long does it take to charge an electric car?

How long does it take to charge Two weeks ago I changed my ride. And since I have been asked several times how long does it take to charge? Yes, its still an electric vehicle (EV) — I hope to never again put gasoline into a car! Anyway, the question surprised me each time, as …

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DashboardSymbols.com getting a facelift

DashboardSymbols.com Earlier this year, we noted in a post that DashboardSymbols.com was then hosting nearly 1,000 symbols and indicators. We have since run past the 1,000 barrier rather handily. This got us thinking about how this impacts our visitors. How is anyone supposed to find anything in what has become a quagmire? One solution, implemented …

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