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Defrost, on, fuel, etc. have had pretty standard icons for quite a while though? And they don't require knowing English either.
by mehrdadn 7y ago
Defrost, on, fuel, etc. have had pretty standard icons for quite a while though? And they don't require knowing English either.
- pixl97 7y agoYou mean the yellow boiling cauldron icon that no one knows what it is?
- mehrdadn 7y agoDo you see that on fuel, defrost, or on?
- outworlder 7y agoMy wife knows now. AFTER she called me to ask what the heck it was. Yellow witch cauldron with an exclamation mark was the exact description.
- tire-pressure 7y agoThe tire pressure icon is the newest and least comprehensible icon of them all. I looked at it for years without knowing what it was, and never had any flat tires, due to wear or pressure related damage. Just nails, debris and scheduled rotation during inspections. When I discovered that there was a new standard of RFID pressure sensor chips embedded in the new tires I bought, suddenly it all clicked. But that's what it took. I needed to shop around and buy a new set of tires, notice that there were some, a little bit more expensive than others, read the feature list, and notice the RFID chips listed in the spec. RFID chips? In my tires? It's more likely than you think! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire-pressure_monitoring_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire-pressure_monitoring_syste... Suddenly it all snapped into place. The worthless idiot light tells me nothing, by magically interfacing with systems behind my back, and what's more, every tire on the road is uniquely identifiable, through remote passive electronic sensors. This just quietly appears, on the down low. Low key spyware on essential disposable components that everyone needs, and that everyone will eventually be forced onto. To get rid of them, usually they're in the valve stem, so you could probably just microwave them with a disassembled magnetron, or run a high voltage arc through them with a stun gun. But no one does.
- xgulfie 7y agoThese are an ISO standard and automakers use them because it removes liability, not because the designers like them.
- WalterBright 7y ago> on Is it O for On, or O for Off? I never remember. Besides, if all you know is Sanskrit, how much harder is it for you to learn that On means on than O means on (or is it off)?
- mehrdadn 7y ago> Is it O for On, or O for Off? I never remember. Does it matter? You know it means either on or off, and you know whether it's already on or off... I haven't seen anyone struggle to figure out what happens given these two pieces of information?
- WalterBright 7y agoSometimes equipment isn't obviously on or off. Like the main switch on a power supply. I also like to know that something is off when I try to plug it in (like the table saw).
- mehrdadn 7y agoI thought we're talking about cars? I never claimed all standardized icons for all equipment are intuitive.
- WalterBright 7y agoOk, cars. How do you know the electric wires for the defroster are on or off? I can't see electric fields. You can wait 10 minutes and see if it defrosts I suppose. I don't see that as an improvement on phonetic writing.
- mehrdadn 7y agoThere's a light that turns on?
- WalterBright 7y ago