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Toyota symbols Our Toyota symbols page update is at long last finished. In the process we added 51 symbols and indicators to a page, which now come in at nearly 150. Fifteen of those additions are brand new, including five seat belt indicators, three suspension modes and three drive modes for GR Corollas. There is …
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Polestar symbols As we continue to work on many changes to the website navigation and search options as well as an extensive 20 model Toyota update, we took the time re-align our Polestar symbols page by color. That makes 40 pages now re-done to reflect the new color ordering, including our primary pictographic symbols page. …
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Owner’s manual fail While continuing our update of the Toyota dashboard symbols page, we ran into another rather minor owner’s manual fail. Looking through the 2025 Sequoia manual, we ran across an Auto LSD indicator. Now those letters were bound to get our attention, but forgetting that this is not a new system and that …
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Acronyms — and Abbreviations! So when are acronyms not acronyms? I ran into a YouTube short from Neil deGrasse Tyson where he “spelled” this out (sorry). You can view it here. It turns out an acronym is a series of letters that spell something that can be pronounced. IBM is an abbreviation, not an acronym. …
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Ford got it A few days ago, we castigated the industry for adding too many drive modes and credited Lexus with adding an Auto mode to relieve their drivers of the added headache. We also specifically called out Ford, when in fact Ford got it right too! We were so caught up in Ford adding …
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Toyota confused LTA and LDA — won’t their customers end up confused as well??
Toyota confused When the Toyota symbols page update was finished, we noted that Toyota is clearly confused about the symbols they had applied to Lane Tracing Assist (LTA) and Lane Departure Assist (LDA). For the record, LTA is an advanced version of LDA. But with Toyota confused, how are their drivers likely feeling. This may …
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