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Explanation: During the 3rd century AD, the Roman Empire went through a prolonged crisis known as... well, the Crisis of the Third Century. Everything that could go wrong, essentially, did. Plague, invasions, secession, coups, civil wars, military rule, hyperinflation, corruption, banditry, breakdown of law, religious fanaticism, rising popularity of trousers...
The Empire survived, but only barely - and in a form hardly recognizable to the Principate of the first two centuries AD.
Your explanation is cool, but what do the lights mean, funny man?
Older cars test all the dash indicators when you start them by turning them all on so you can check for burnt out bulbs.
Not just older cars. Every car does this when you turn the ignition on.
Do new cars still have individual lights for these things, or do you just get, I dunno, a dialog box or something?
The symbols are standardized, they even show up if your instrument cluster is just a screen. But they no longer have to be individual bulbs or LEDs.