The parent post says "different error lights" and that might be indicative of experience with European cars. In, say, an Audi, there are 3 or 4 different subsystem lights, with yellow indicating a "get it looked at" issue and red a "stop now" problem. And "might literally explode" usually results in an engine shutdown.

> Computers show errors on a daily basis and most of them are trivially fixable

As they say, "citation required". How do I fix my Windows Update 0x80070422 error? (And yeah, I know, don't use Windows -- but I have plenty of *ix examples as well...)