• BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    This is like when cars went from oil pressure and temperature gauges to “idiot” lights. One let’s you see trends in situations and be prepared for maintenance, the other tells why your car broke down.

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      52 minutes ago

      Oh man, you’ve solved a problem I’ve had since childhood, trying to figure out what Stephen King meant when he was writing about “idiot lights”.

      I always figure he meant the dome light or something.

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      2 hours ago

      Yeah, my car doesn’t have either of those and I was not happy when I realized it.

      “A light will come on if there’s an issue.” 😡

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      1 hour ago

      All that information is available in the cluster lmfao.

      There’s far more information that needs to be readily apparent to a driver than the oil pressure.

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        57 minutes ago

        Oil pressure tells you if the engine is dying or if the Oil is breaking down or overheating. I’d take it over an RPM gage.

        A lot of vehicles dont have it in their cluster menus these days.