Why can't the buttons on a car be written in Chinese?

Some of the functions of the center buttons on cars can be replaced with Chinese, and there are already production cars that use Chinese buttons.

The mass-produced car brands in the domestic car BYD a lot of use of Chinese buttons instead of English, and even the car logo are in the use of seal script Hanzi reflecting traditional Chinese culture, the reason is roughly as shown in the figure.

The use of Chinese buttons is not impossible, and most brands don't use them simply to reduce manufacturing costs or to reflect internationalization.

Joint-venture imported cars do not talk about because the automotive industry developed the basis of the language of the country are letters, domestic cars, some brands will also be exported overseas, so you also have to use the English logo, otherwise another in the single open a set of molds is to increase the cost of manufacturing, which is not the style of the car companies.

As for some only in the domestic sales of the brand is also using the English design, the reason is internationalization, or understood as a result of the invasion of Western culture led to the loss of traditional Chinese culture, the idea has been westernized, this is like some people know three words still have to drag a line ok, such as early high visibility of the ok maniacs-independent and objective third party.

These are some of the reasons why most car companies don't use Chinese-designed buttons, although there are brands like BYD that are happy to embody traditional culture in the automotive industry, and the alternative approach has been well received. But realistically speaking Chinese can not completely replace the English logo, only part of the replacement, such as the following figure group:

These buttons are labeled in Chinese for the simple reason that two words can explain the problem, but some of the functions of the symbols to show that there is no need to use the text to replace the even if it is in English, there are still a number of functions in Chinese instead of the inability to design, still take the production car of BYD Tang Dm as an example.

1, EV for Electric

vehicle abbreviation, switching button is very small even if the use of English can not be used in full spelling, otherwise the letters are too small and difficult to recognize; and the use of Chinese to spray on the "purely electric power drive mode", this small button how to rationalize the design of the layout?

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2, the same way HEV for Hybird electric

vehicle abbreviation, interpretation of hybrid power output, the simplest Chinese also have to be six words, scientific and reasonable expression should be a mixture of electric drive, fuel-driven operation, there is no way to design. So the only way to make EV and HEV represent a function that is well known to everyone, and then there is no need to label it in cumbersome English and Chinese.

3, followed by ESP, HAC, A (autohold) and other functions as well, the PRNDSL on the gear lever with a letter labeling is more clear and intuitive, with words and Chinese characters labeling will always be a little strange.

So Chinese can be in a car's design but it can't completely replace English or graphics, and it's hard to change recognition habits that have developed over decades.

But it's still worth recognizing that some of it will be there, especially in the later stages of a vehicle's life when it's smart enough to use human-computer interaction or touch panels to control the switching of these functions, and when the design is no longer an obstacle to a fully Chinese language interface.