Honestly I’d kill for a digital dashboard that easy to read. Most are way worse.
I hate that cars are just smart phones on wheels now. Do any auto makers still make cars with the old style and not all these screens and crap?
I was so happy when I saw some modern KIAs use analog controls.
Then I checked KIAs reliability and safety score and died.
watching 80s and 90s anime has given me a soul-deep admiration for mechanical dials of any kind. I like high-tech shit, but it’s gotta have low-tech dials, or I’m out.
Windows with a hand crank saved me when I was stuck in a car as a kid. Now you get out, you gotta smash it.
You wouldn’t have that problem with Linux. 🤓
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I. HATE. TOUCHSCREENS!
I love the potential of a digital dash.
I hate the wasted potential of actual digital dashes.Let me fuckin customize it.
Let me put whatever gauges I want wherever I want. I know that the data is available over the CAN bus, let me fuckin see it.
Dynamically change the layout if something important happens I need to keep an eye on, but wouldn’t normally need to worry aboutOn the canbus
Is this a new porn series?
Even more infuriating when not only is it not customisable, but they layout they do use is just… bad in a thousand different tiny ways.
For example, the tachometer and speedometer on my vehicle have two display modes. The traditional looking dials and a more compact vertical wheel that leaves more room in the middle of the display for other things.
…but those other things are almost always either useless (I don’t need to see a little picture of the vehicle I’m driving), or actively worse (the media info screen actually shows fewer characters in the larger mode).
It’s not unusable, it’s just varying levels of awkward or useless in dozens of little aspects.
My Seat Leon has a digital dashboard, by pressing the “VIEW” button on the steering wheel it rotates between several different layouts, which can be customized.
I normally just have two normal dials, with a GPS map in the middle, fuel gauges to the left (because the standard place doesn’t line up properly) and a media display to the right (shows what song/podcast is playing and the progress of it)
I can make my entire dash be a giant GPS map display, with only a small digital speedometer readout, but that is annoying.
These new digital dashboards offer plenty of customizations, but the formfactor should be the same as a normal dash
Some can, especially aftermarket ones. But it’s usually not simple and usually OEM don’t offer a lot of customization options.
This one sparks joy.
So does this one.
Used to love Super Pursuit Mode.
Even made the cars on the overpass go faster.
Rad
Oh wow, what car is that!?
🥵
I am partial to the windshield projection style. It is truly fantastic for keeping your eyes on the road while seeing your speed
I love my HUD, I’m currently driving a rental without one and I hate looking down at the speedo.
I get having a digital cluster, because you can display way more information than using analog gauges.
Put it in front of the driver.
Also, make the text bigger.
So many displays have tiny, hard to read text that could easily be twice as tall and wide without even impacting the blank space that separates them.
Heh, it’s not digital, but our pickup has small km/h speeds printed on the speedometer, like most cars. But when I was driving in Canada, I found they were nearly illegible (my eyes just weren’t good enough to read the small print). I had to switch to the digital speed display in the dash so I could read my speed in km/h.
I’m looking at you, Tesla.
And the Volvo EX30.
I guess I’m in the minority: I prefer to see my speed as a number instead of a dial.
Yes, it does need to be in front of the driver.
Chevy 15-seaters from 2012+ you can turn the status screen on the dash and display numerical rpms. They are a bit slow to update but it’s kinda cool.
An advantage of a proper dial is that you can instinctively see the change in speed by how quickly the needle moves.
Different people have different considerations.
When I’ve rented vehicles with a digital speedometer I haven’t felt like I’m missing anything without a dial. I haven’t found myself in situations where the movement of the needle helps me.
When I get into rental cars with a dial, I feel like I need to watch it closely because I’m not familiar with where the ticks are. It doesn’t work for me at all.
I have absolutely felt like I am missing something when I don’t have a dial, I like having a tool get a general idea of how fast my speed it changing, rather than having to focus on a number to see how fast that is changing.
The Citroen C4 had a the speed right under the windshield which was a lot easier to read than a analog speed gauge in the dash.
A picture:
I feel like this debate is about the concept of a seepometer as a simple number vs a speedometer as a dial.
Your claim that this speedometer was a lot easier easier to read than a normal dashboard, leaves out a bit, that is dependent on what situation we are talking about. In normal driving, I find the dash perfectly easy to read, this concept you have shown be seem to be lacking color coding which would make warning lights less distinct.
One of the best features in modern cars is when they have a HUD, that is fantastic.
108 in a 30. Someone speeding that much has no time for a ticket.
Someone speeding that much won’t be having much time left in general.
Marques Brownlee?
I don’t understand how anyone can buy a Tesla. The lack of a dashboard + the only interface being a tablet alone are a deal breaker for me.
You’re being sold a feature that is really just massive cost cuttings playing impostor as a luxury feature at a premium with 100x worse usability.
It does spark more though
I love a digital speedometer but dials as back up feel important
True and based
Basically nobody actually needs a tach taking up as much space as the speedometer.
