What are these two top buttons?

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That is why you should ALWAYS read the manual, where it is clearly explained! Yes I know it's over 600 pages but...
 
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That is why you should ALWAYS read the manual, where it is clearly explained! Yes I know it's over 600 pages but...

I did. Probably forgot. But thanks for being so smart! :lol:
 

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I would have thought the icon on the button was pretty self explanatory in regards to what they turn off.
It seems like Europeans and others have a great enthusiasm for icons and pictograms, while Americans generally are more skeptical and prefer labels.

I agree with the link below, that the belief that everything can be iconized and icons are self-explanatory, is not based on reality.
https://uxmyths.com/post/715009009/myth-icons-enhance-usability

Labels are better. Without looking up, I would understand the word "brake" in the following languages, (and many more) although I only know a few of them:

English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Greek, Danish, Maltese, Corsican, Esperanto, Icelandic, Norwegian, Latvian, Mongolian, Polish, Turkish.....
Why learn obscure icons instead of learning some words in different languages?

Cases in point from my experience:

1. A Chinese university science student in China drives off the university-owned car with the parking brake on. A sound beeps and an icon pops up. He stops the car and neither he nor a young professor, also in the car, understand what's going on until they ask me.

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2. This icon popped up in my wife's CR-V. She had no idea WTH it meant. I guess a cross-section of a tire is not a familiar image to her.

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It seems like Europeans and others have a great enthusiasm for icons and pictograms, while Americans generally are more skeptical and prefer labels.

Labels are better. Without looking up, I would understand the word "brake" in the following languages, (and many more) although I only know a few of them:

English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Greek, Danish, Maltese, Corsican, Esperanto, Icelandic, Norwegian, Latvian, Mongolian, Polish, Turkish.....
Why learn obscure icons instead of learning some words in different languages?
Because words don't work either.

The word Gift in English means Poison in German. So much more could go wrong if the same word has a different meaning for another language.

Especially Europe where there are lots of small countries close together.
 


 


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