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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12-volt battery warning light needs a serious upgrade
Battery Warning Light EV start batteries I ran across a story from Inside EVs involving a Mustang Mach-E electric vehicle (EV) 12-volt start battery failure that also failed to produce any battery warning light. The owner stepped out of her running vehicle leaving an infant inside and the car simply died. The car locked itself …
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Our Skoda dashboard symbols page has now been re-ordered by color
Skoda dashboard symbols We are in the middle of a Lexus update, but we took a break to re-align our Skoda dashboard symbols page by color. That makes 36 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 …
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Another manufacturer falls: Lexus adds an electronic latch
The electronic latch needs to go A review of Lexus back up entry and start processes finds another electronic latch. New electrified NX, RX, RZ and TX models all feature the new latch, which requires a back up exit option in the event of a power failure. And this has been the case since 2023. …
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Lexus dashboard symbols page has now been color coded
Lexus dashboard symbols In advance of a 2025 update, now underway, our Lexus dashboard symbols page has now been re-aligned by color. That makes 35 pages transformed to reflect the new color ordering, including our primary pictographic symbols page. This exceeds now three fourths of the pages to be re-ordered, while we work our way …
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Australian manual site found to replace a more restrictive UK site
Australian manual site Our recent Suzuki dashboard symbols update had us scrambling for owner’s manuals and an Australian manual site was just the ticket. We keep a page of website links to owner’s manuals for the convenience of our viewers, and Suzuki offers a challenge. The company does not sell autos into the North American …
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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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