Next time you’re in your car take a closer look at the gas icon on your dashboard. Most modern cars use a subtle graphical arrow next to the gas icon.
The little arrow shows the side of the car that the gas cap is located. In the picture above the gas cap is on the drivers side.
Car companies can’t standardize on a side to put the gas cap but at least they’ve managed to agree on what icon to use.
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It would require less space if there were two gas pump graphics in use by car manufacturers; one with the nozzle handle on the right and another with it on the left.
Sure, it wouldn’t be as obvious as an arrow but if it were a standard practice, people would catch on.
It would be especially handy in fleet cars since they’re often driven for work on by different people (used as rentals, etc.).
There’s a good concept demo for dashboards that are more useful, telling you information you need to know and having the ability to customize information seen – you can see it here: http://www.tat.se/images/demo/dashboard.mov