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I found this text/icon a few years ago and was not sure why it even existed.

If we are looking at the old E3 video we can see the same icon on the map when paused. This means it was once meant to appear on the big map in the final game.

Why it was cut can have multiple reasons i don't really know.
The map might have been upgraded to look better.
Also map tiles in the pause map may use less texture tiles than the map has in the radar (can't confirm that since i did not test that yet)
The icon might have simply been removed from the map to make the game a bit cheaper.

The old video also shows a lot cut and changed stuff from the game.
For example:
- player vehicles could have police lights (not sure if even usable)
- hud position differences
- nitro count was displayed as text
- few cars looked different and had other colors (special cars had missing overlays)
- overall graphics differences and render problems

There is a video somewhere that shows an even earlier different main menu (where a saleen is visible instead)

I just wish these old preview builds somehow still exist since there are many interesting things especially how big the map is.