Tag: stability control

All Those Lights on Your Dashboard: They’re Not for Idiots Anymore

The First Warning Lights In a simpler day, if your engine’s oil pressure dropped too low, your dashboard, or more properly, your instrument panel, would have had an analog oil pressure gauge displaying the pressure reading and a warning light, a red dot, that would come on to get your attention. Then some manufacturers did …

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Traction and Active Traction Control Indicators

Traction Control Indicator

Traction Control These are all Traction and Active Traction Control Indicator symbols. They indicate that the system has been activated and doing its job to maintain traction in slippery conditions, hence the green color. Like other text indicators, they intend to inform more directly than diagrams. But first, is one of these truly your symbol?? If yes, …

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