Category: Dashboard Symbols & Tell-tales

DashboardSymbols.com descriptions of the symbols and tell-tales used on automobile and light truck dashboards and instrument panels.

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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Scion symbols page now presented by color

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Scion symbols page Our Scion symbols page has now been aligned by color. We’ve have now transformed several pages, including our primary symbols page, to reflect the new color ordering. The page  is now ordered red through green and blue symbols. This generally provides a “mostly serious” to “simply letting you know” range. We used …

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Toyota symbols page joins the new color treatment list

Toyota symbols page Our Toyota symbols page has now been aligned by color. We’ve have now transformed several 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 “simply …

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Pontiac symbols page gets the new color treatment

Pontiac symbols page Our Pontiac symbols page has now been aligned by color. We’ve have now transformed several pages, including our primary symbols page, to reflect a color ordering. As a testament to the growth of technology and the accompanying indicators, the Pontiac holds just over 40 symbols. The majority of manufacturers have this number …

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BMW symbols page gets the new color treatment

BMW symbols page Our BMW symbols page has now been aligned by color. We’ve have now transformed several pages, including our primary symbols page, to reflect the new color ordering. The page feature more than 80 indicators, now ordered red through white, which generally provides a “mostly serious” to “simply letting you know” range. We …

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