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A car with skid marks, with OFF beneath: the electronic safety net is disabled.
Also known as: ESP off, Car with wavy lines under it
A small car above two wavy tracks. Flashing, it means stability control is intervening right now; steady with OFF, it means the driver has switched it off and the car will no longer catch a slide.
An amber tell-tale showing a car above two wavy lines, indicating that electronic stability control is either intervening or, when accompanied by OFF, switched off.
What this lamp means on a particular vehicle, and what to do about it, is in that vehicle's handbook. The symbol names the system; it does not diagnose the fault.
Contexts: Vehicle dashboard
Flashing and steady mean opposite things. Flashing is the system working, which is reassuring; steady with OFF is the system not working, which is not.
One of the few tell-tales where the behaviour of the lamp, not the lamp itself, carries the meaning.
A small car seen from behind or above, sitting above two short wavy lines like tyre tracks, sometimes with the word OFF below.