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My point was the speech should say "jam" (in Japanese) and it will be better than a beep and an the text "jam" (in Japanese) is better than an icon.

My old truck had a lever that had 3 positions: COOL HEAT DEFROST. Modern cars have all these idiotic icons and I can never figure out how to defrost.



Defrost is the little window icon with wavy lines on it. Same icon it's been since I started driving 25 years ago. According to the internet, it's been that way for 50 years, since it was standardized by ISO 2575-3:1975 ("Road vehicles — Symbols for controls, indicators and tell-tales"). Both US and European law decided in 1978 that everyone had to use the same icons.

And there's a user manual in the car, you know; RTFM?


> standardized

Proof that it is not obvious what it means. Besides, what would a pre-contact tribesman know about 50 year old standards?

> RTFM

If you cannot read DEFROST, you cannot read the manual, either.

In general, pictures of things is no substitute for verbs.




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