My mom's G6 did this for 12 years every morning, requiring you to press "enter" on the radio display to make it go away. I'm curious to see what this "hieroglyph" actually looks like.

 

I have seen it too, obviously it is warning you that the road may be icy but we should/need to be able to turn it off. We need to complain and they should do an update to turn it off.

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its a snow flake....

turn it off??, not a chance.

I bet some lawyer in a meeting with engineering said something like..

lawyer: you guys can know what the temp outside is in the car huh?

eng: yup

lawyer: then we need to tell people in case some a**hole gets in the freakin thing and doesn't realize its cold outside. they could sue us if they knew that we knew it was cold outside, knew how to tell them it was cold outside, but decided not to tell them it was cold outside??? nope, no way.

eng: how 'bout a snowflake next to the temp they can barely see?..oh and an annoying beep as well so we can say we tried as hard as we could to tell the dump a** it was cold outside.

lawyer: good...a real loud beep. piss em right off so they remember.

that might be why you get that cute little reminder.

 

Too funny and so true. I have to sit (and suffer) with those lawyers on our Monday morning corporate 'Data Privacy' meetings and conversations usually follow your pattern to the T.

And my god, it was a snowflake?!? I could bet you it looked like a road (well, at least as long as two vertical lines can represent a lane on the road) crossed out as is 'You Shall Not Pass!'.

Good for you, you recognized it for what it is - a harmless snowflake.

 

First of all, 32F is freezing. We are not in Europe and we are AMERICANS and do not use that other system so give it a rest.

Second, I turn mine off but I won't tell you how because you are some kind of globalist.

 

This is a global forum, the cars are from Asia and the world does not revolve around America, so retreat to your bunker and give it a rest..

... Philip

 

Actually the cars are assembled in Georgia, USA I believe.

 

your absolutely correct, and also the same factory builds the Optima and Santa Fe.

I'm Canadian and 0c is freezing!

 

my light comes on at 40*and beeps only once. Bridges can be icy in he mornings while air temp could rise to 40 or even higher. I see it every year at this time of year. Its a high bridge over a river that is cooling and creating fog and wind. No that light and one beep doesn't bother me one bit.

 

I hit black ice and crashed my bike when it was 36 degrees out. My bad.

 

I like this feature. I travel a mountain pass daily where it is often +8˚ in the valley and below 0˚ on the summit. Temps can change rapidly when climbing and this harmless little beep lets me know when the road could be getting icy.

I also live in America...Canada...and we said goodnight to fahrenheit decades ago when we finally seen the advantages and cut our umbilical cord to the old Imperial system
The US is the only country in the Americas that still use this antiquated measurement and only three countries worldwide use it. Liberia and Burma being the other holdouts.

 

You live in North America. But you are not an AMERICAN. You are a Canadian.
We don't want to be you. Get used to it.

 

Say what you want about the utility of dividing units of measure evenly by ten and having standard prefixes.

But the Celsius temperature scale is ridiculous for everyday use.

When I am driving or going about my business, I am unlikely to encounter the boiling point of water.

0 F is really cold. 100 F is really hot. These are extremes of human existence and it makes perfect sense to have a temperature scale that encompasses them.

 

that is a valid point. however the basis of the Celsius scale is not only to encompass the extremes of human existence but further to provide a base ten system mapping two basic physical state changes for a common and naturally occurring compound in the environment. A fixed reference material to anchor the reference system, after which it is useful to measure a much broader range of temperatures accurately.

 

(that's +4 in real world where people use real unit measurements, not some made up ones),

Good one

First of all, 32F is freezing. We are not in Europe and we are AMERICANS and do not use that other system so give it a rest.

Americans? Like people leaving in Americas or USA only?
USA is the only country that still uses Fahrenheit. And maybe two or three tiny islands in Central America...

But the Celsius temperature scale is ridiculous for everyday use.

When I am driving or going about my business, I am unlikely to encounter the boiling point of water.

0 F is really cold. 100 F is really hot. These are extremes of human existence and it makes perfect sense to have a temperature scale that encompasses them.

Actually these are two extremes that are the easiest to be verified. Freezing point of water and boiling point of water.
Dihydrogen oxide is the most abundant and the most important chemical in the world. Without it no life would exist. No life we know of.

that is a valid point. however the basis of the Celsius scale is not only to encompass the extremes of human existence but further to provide a base ten system mapping two basic physical state changes for a common and naturally occurring compound in the environment. A fixed reference material to anchor the reference system, after which it is useful to measure a much broader range of temperatures accurately.

Overall, while I can agree with Fahrenheit and his scale on the high end - using body temperature as 100 point, I do not get why he would use a temperature of a brine for the low end. It was -18 C. There is a story as well in which he used the coldest recorded temperature in his city for the low end... that happens to be -18 C of course.
That is kind of "not broad" thinking, don't you agree?

So I am sorry USA (aka. Americans), as a scientist, I will say - Fahrenheit is very poorly designed scale. Plus it does not correlate to Celsius or Kelvin. One degree F is 5/9 of Celsius. Conversion is very confusing then.

 

Now now, let's all be politicly correct with each other and play nice with each other. And once that happens we can sit around a campfire and sing kumbaya and make S'Mores and talk about the things we LIKE about our Kia's! LOL

 

Lol, you're absolutely right. Going forward I'll play nice and keep it civil.
My apologies to scosgt for the insinuation.


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So much bantering over a cute snowflake. You guys are brutal!

 

^X2 :laugh:

 

Do people STILL not look at their owners manual and familiarize themselves with dash lights and controls yet before going into panic attacks when an unfamiliar light comes on? Maybe we DO need SELF DRIVING cars after all! LOL

 

Seriously. If a light comes on your dash and you don't even bother googling (or looking at your manual, which is within arm's reach), the dealer has every right to laugh at you.

I had an AT warning light on my dash on my Mazda6. I pulled over, stopped, looked at the manual, it clearly said "damage may occur to the transaxle if you drive with this light on", so I had it towed. It needed a transmission reflashing. Easy fix, but 1) panicking, and 2) continuing to drive would have absolutely been the wrong thing to do. So if you do get some sort of warning light on your dash, for god's sake, look it up!

 

My dealer took some time to explain the snowflake symbol when they turned the keys over.
No fuss, no muss.
It activated this morning - I left home at 6 C and when the temp dropped to 3C, the warning triggered.
I thought that was cool and cold ....

I head north-east and it is always colder on the drive to work.

 

So much banter back and forth that I don't know if the complaint was about the light coming on or that it is accompanied by Celsius reading and not Fahrenheit ! Lets just have ALL our Governments DECREE that by 2020 ALL cars be SELF driving with no manual controls so we are ALL SAFE on the roadways! LOL

 

Governments DECREE that by 2020 ALL cars be SELF driving with no manual controls so we are ALL SAFE on the roadways! LOL

Safe as long as some hacker decides to hack into all JEEPs (and similar) and take control of all of the cars!!
Yeah!

 

You caught my jest! But ALL our "big brothers" would NOT allow that to happen! LOL

 

Alas, Unfortunately I think we have just turned this whole thread into something else. But maybe some will see the HUMOR in it!

 

Did you just say that EVERYONE would get WORMY cars? YUCK! ...LOL

 

Did you see the wired article where hackers purposely shut down the jeep on the highway and he couldn't do anything! They didn't tell him what they were going to do but said whatever happens, don't panic..lol. Now that's a real reason to freak out. [emoji15]

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No NO NO .... you all misinterpreted my post ALL cars on the road have to be self drivers(NO OLDER CARS ALLOWED)!!!
Now if "Big Brothers" audacity to do such does not "freak you out", Then I am at a complete loss to say much more on the subject. LOL