Your iPhone can explain the warning lights on your dash with iOS 17

[iMore.com]

The iOS 17 update includes a Visual Lookup upgrade for identifying in-car symbols.

Your iPhone can explain the warning lights on your dash with iOS 17 : Read more

 

[Annie_M]

This will be very helpful! I hate pulling out my owner's manuals, which are so huge and voluminous to look up what a symbol means.

 

[Lee_Bo]

Oh I can see this now.

“I was driving down the road and this light came on my dash, so got out my phone to see what it was……..and I never saw that tree.”

 

[Wotchered]

They’re pretty universal if it’s about warning light/ikons. And I don’t know if any motor mfr is still using the old “count the blinks” interior light codes.

 

[EdwinG]

They’re pretty universal if it’s about warning light/ikons. And I don’t know if any motor mfr is still using the old “count the blinks” interior light codes.

Count the what now?

Both my old and current cars use dashboard lights. The current car even provides a written description with what’s wrong with it.

 

[Annie_M]

Oh I can see this now.

“I was driving down the road and this light came on my dash, so got out my phone to see what it was……..and I never saw that tree.”

Yep!!! And why many states now have some form of distracted driving laws.

 

[Wotchered]

Count the what now?

Both my old and current cars use dashboard lights. The current car even provides a written description with what’s wrong with it.

almost everything uses dashboard lights/ikons which are either red or amber and some blink,or flash if you prefer, indicating particular areas or urgencies. Other marques use the interior overhead light to blink a certain number of times to indicate a code. Rather like the codes OBD 2 uses. If I remember rightly Nissan was the first mfr that I saw this in (40 years ago ?) and as I said, I don’t know if this is still done. A camera,counting app would have been very useful. Also for Buoy identification in the English Channel !!

 

[EdwinG]

almost everything uses dashboard lights/ikons which are either red or amber and some blink,or flash if you prefer, indicating particular areas or urgencies. Other marques use the interior overhead light to blink a certain number of times to indicate a code. Rather like the codes OBD 2 uses. If I remember rightly Nissan was the first mfr that I saw this in (40 years ago ?) and as I said, I don’t know if this is still done. A camera,counting app would have been very useful.

I believe they moved from indoor overhead light blinking to ODB2 in all North American cars, as that port is just required by regulation. However, I have no reliable way of confirming that.

Also for Buoy identification in the English Channel !!

Same for the St. Lawrence Seaway.

And here’s an app idea. Visual identification of maritime navigation aids (buoys, lighthouses, etc.)

 

[Mars20]

Drivers should know the symbols on their dashboard and should familiarise themselves with any non- standard ones when they acquire a new car.

 

[Lee_Bo]

Drivers should know the symbols on their dashboard and should familiarise themselves with any non- standard ones when they acquire a new car.

They should also know how to use turn signals and come to complete stops at stop signs…….but……..

 

[Ledsteplin]

"But officer, I was only looking to see what that warning light was!"

 

[Wotchered]

The question might be: why do we need an app for it ? there have been talking cars before, that could actually tell you what was going on without the need to look at a screen ! (not that the feature was popular, funny yes, popular no !)

 

[Ledsteplin]

The question might be: why do we need an app for it ? there have been talking cars before, that could actually tell you what was going on without the need to look at a screen ! (not that the feature was popular, funny yes, popular no !)

Because most cars don't have that feature you speak of.

 

[Lee_Bo]

The question might be: why do we need an app for it ?

Remember this quote from Tron?

 

[Ledsteplin]

I believe they moved from indoor overhead light blinking to ODB2 in all North American cars, as that port is just required by regulation. However, I have no reliable way of confirming that.

Same for the St. Lawrence Seaway.

And here’s an app idea. Visual identification of maritime navigation aids (buoys, lighthouses, etc.)

Explain what you mean by "visual identification". There are apps that show those things on maps or charts. Such as the Atlas Nautical Charts app.

 

[EdwinG]

Explain what you mean by "visual identification". There are apps that show those things on maps or charts. Such as the Atlas Nautical Charts app.

I mean, detect the navigation aid using the camera (e.g.: using its blink sequence) and allow you to know precisely where you are without Internet service or GPS.

Clearly, it would be a very niche app.

 

[Wotchered]

This, although I brought it up in jest, would have come in very handy when I still sailed ! very few small yachts had the pestiferous Decca navigator, the Phillips sat nav was unreliable, and that vhf thing with the directional aerial was a nightmare. So on a breezy night you had your compass and your charts and timepiece. A confirmation is always very handy !