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by icambron 162 days ago
I use it regularly when driving an unfamiliar car. I also don’t think it’s ambiguous: it’s a drawing of a gas pump and an arrow telling you where it should be from here, which is a convention from signage the world over. “Paris ->” has never meant “you are this way relative to Paris.”

The design I used to find confusing was the controls for periodic windshield wipers: does the width the triangle indicator represent frequency or period? I eventually just managed to memorize that it means frequency because you get more wiping as you turn it “up”. I don’t think anyone else ever found this ambiguous; we all have our little intuition gaps, I guess.

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Well, you need to pull up to the side of the gas pump. It's not an "intuition gap". The arrow is ambiguous.

You don't pull up next to Paris, but I would get a chuckle if the icon had a little Eiffel tower instead of a gas pump.

nah, the pump is visibly physically, dont need an arroq thats idiotic