Weird battery sign in front mi/KWh

[generaltso]

Im pretty sure that is related to the phone battery

Uh, no. My phone does not get any miles per kWh.

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[bFWEAD]

Problem is they don’t mention these things in update.

@FordMotorCompany, it would be great to have some standard Software Release Notes available for each update.

 

[Gimme_my_MME]

Uh, no. My phone does not get any miles per kWh.

Wow, then you need to update to a new phone and get with the times

 

[SpacePony]

While that seems like the most probable solution, that’s bad form on Ford’s part. In the computer/internet age, we’ve become accustomed to that symbol being associated with something not connected or not operational

This symbol has been used in European cars for many years to mean “average efficiency” (typically mileage).

The symbol you’re speaking of (which that something isn’t allowed or doesn’t exist) existed long before the internet. But it’s thicker, the don’t extend past the circle, and is typically red.

Confusingly, the same symbol for average can also mean an “empty set” of data.

What would be the perfect icon to use that everyone would understand and not complain about?

 

[generaltso]

What would be the perfect icon to use that everyone would understand and not complain about?

Just a battery. Kinda like it was before. They certainly didn't reduce confusion by adding a symbol that's common in Europe and not recognized by most Americans.

 

[Davedough]

This symbol has been used in European cars for many years to mean “average efficiency” (typically mileage).

The symbol you’re speaking of (which that something isn’t allowed or doesn’t exist) existed long before the internet. But it’s thicker, the don’t extend past the circle, and is typically red.

Confusingly, the same symbol for average can also mean an “empty set” of data.

What would be the perfect icon to use that everyone would understand and not complain about?

I can’t think of the perfect one, but maybe a less confusing one would be ~? The mighty tilde? It can often be used in the context of “about” something

 

[TRP]

I noticed this on mine after the 1.7 update as well

 

[zvez]

Yes. Everyone with 1.7.1 or a GT.

ah that's interesting, glad I got up today, I learned something.

 

[Deleted member 7790]

I can’t think of the perfect one, but maybe a less confusing one would be ~? The mighty tilde? It can often be used in the context of “about” something

~ is commonly used to indicate ‘approximate’. Their symbol is perfect but issue is when noticed by someone, it seems like no battery or something. Thanks to @Space Pony for finding out very reasonable answer. Just a simple solution would be to put in update.

 

[SpacePony]

~ is commonly used to indicate ‘approximate’. Their symbol is perfect but issue is when noticed by someone, it seems like no battery or something. Thanks to @Space Pony for finding out very reasonable answer. Just a simple solution would be to put in update.

Also, funny enough, ~ is only used commonly for “approximately equal” these days because the correct mathematical symbol ≈ is more difficult to type.

But the trip value denoted is a running average. Not an approximation.

 

[BDC]

This symbol has been used in European cars for many years to mean “average efficiency” (typically mileage).

I just hunted around for this and can't find a reference for that symbol anywhere in this context (circle with a line over a battery). There is '⊘' (unicode 0x2298 - Circled Division Slash) which seems to be used for custom math operations similar to division. But when extended past the edges like that I expect it to mean either zero (to distinguish from the letter 'O') or the empty set, or perhaps null. It may well be this means average efficiency somewhere, but that seems to be very poorly documented at best.

 

[Scooby24]

None of this makes any immediate sense to me in terms of what it's supposed to denote when speaking to average power consumption.

https://codepoints.net/U+2300?lang=en

U+2300 DIAMETER SIGN
U+2300 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Technical in the Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 2 other glyphs. In text U+2300 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

In geometry, the diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle. It can also be defined as the longest chord of the circle. Both definitions are also valid for the diameter of a sphere. The word "diameter" is derived from Greek διάμετρος (diametros), "diameter of a circle", from δια- (dia-), "across, through" + μέτρον (metron), "measure". It is often abbreviated DIA, dia, d, or ⌀.
In more modern usage, the length of a diameter is also called the diameter. In this sense one speaks of the diameter rather than a diameter (which refers to the line itself), because all diameters of a circle or sphere have the same length, this being twice the radius r.
For a convex shape in the plane, the diameter is defined to be the largest distance that can be formed between two opposite parallel lines tangent to its boundary, and the width is defined to be the smallest such distance. Both quantities can be calculated efficiently using rotating calipers. For a curve of constant width such as the Reuleaux triangle, the width and diameter are the same because all such pairs of parallel tangent lines have the same distance.
For an ellipse, the standard terminology is different. A diameter of an ellipse is any chord passing through the midpoint of the ellipse. For example, conjugate diameters have the property that a tangent line to the ellipse at the endpoint of one of them is parallel to the other one. The longest diameter is called the major axis.

Edit: Okay here we go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø

• Ø or ⌀ is sometimes also used as a symbol for average value, particularly in German-speaking countries. ("Average" in German is Durchschnitt, directly translated as cut-through.)[6]

Ford must be hiring German developers lol

 

[SpacePony]

None of this makes any immediate sense to me in terms of what it's supposed to denote when speaking to average power consumption.

https://codepoints.net/U+2300?lang=en

Edit: Okay here we go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ø

Well, they are a global company, and as I mentioned, it’s been used for years in some German cars.

I’ve seen “μ” used for average as well, but never in a car, so I can’t even imagine the reaction this forum if they overpaid THAT on a battery for an icon!

 

[HuntingPudel]

Also, funny enough, ~ is only used commonly for “approximately equal” these days because the correct mathematical symbol ≈ is more difficult to type.

But the trip value denoted is a running average. Not an approximation.

The tilde (~ character) is also used in electrical and electronics notation to denote alternating current when prefixed by a “V” as in 240V~ meaning 240 volts AC.

So funny how abbreviations and acronyms are so crazy different when the context is changed.

 

[timbop]

Also, funny enough, ~ is only used commonly for “approximately equal” these days because the correct mathematical symbol ≈ is more difficult to type.

But the trip value denoted is a running average. Not an approximation.

I wholly disagree. The number display is not only limited to tenths, it also does not display all possible tenths values: it goes from 3.0 -> 3.1 -> 3.3 ->3.5 -> 3.7 -> 3.9. With that limited set of values, it is clearly an approximation

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