A red circle-and-exclamation-mark dashboard icon, often flanked by curved brackets, warning of a parking-brake or hydraulic brake-system fault.
Also known as: BRAKE, Parking brake light
Warns of either an engaged parking brake or a low brake-fluid/hydraulic fault — many vehicles share one light for both, distinguished only by whether the parking brake is actually engaged when it appears; a genuinely inconsistent convention across manufacturers, not a single fixed design.
Signals either that the parking brake is engaged, or a low brake-fluid/hydraulic-system fault — many vehicles use the identical light for both conditions, differentiated in practice only by whether the parking brake is physically engaged when the light appears.
This dual-use convention is explicitly documented as varying by manufacturer, not a single fixed international design.
Contexts: Vehicle dashboard
In the United States, FMVSS 101 requires the word 'BRAKE' (not a symbol alone) for this tell-tale, unlike the pictogram-only convention typical elsewhere — a genuine regional divergence.
The regulation's exact table wording was corroborated via independent secondary summaries, not a direct full-text read of the federal table.
Contexts: Vehicle dashboard
A red circle containing an exclamation mark, commonly flanked by two curved brackets suggesting brake shoes.
Both belong to the Vehicle dashboard warning symbols system.
Some manufacturers reuse a similar circle-and-exclamation glyph for both, differentiated mainly by colour/context.