The Eight Most Confusing Car Buttons And Symbols

It cycles through “program type” and “category” to shuffle through your playlists.

“BC” cycles through your dashboard display. Not that a BMW driver ever uses his turn signals, of course.

This light is obvious to gearheads, but more than a few normal folks don’t realize it means the air in one of your tires is low. Drivers’ ignorance of what this light means leads to a lot of headaches for mechanics

When driving at night, it’s important not to burden a driver with the need to remove a hand from the wheel, especially when visibility conditions are changing. So, we’ll put high beam switch next to the BRAKE PEDAL

Funk means “radio” in German, and the button is a radio kill switch for police cars and taxi cabs.

If any automaker knows a thing or two about wild parties, it’s Toyota! That’s why the 4Runner used to have a button that raised the bass and sent the sound to the rear of the car.

The fog light button looks confusing enough, but drivers have to worry about the one in the rear as well.

Everyone knows what this light means, everyone dreads it, and everyone hates it.
It can mean anything from low washer fluid to your engine is 3 revolutions from mimicking a supernova and throwing its insides outside.