No, the top one sparks gasoline. And the bottom one sparks … I don’t know how electric cars work.
Hard disagree. It is SO much faster for me to read a digital number readout than a analogue one.
This isn’t touch screen controls (which are terrible). It’s a readout.
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 aboutMy Audi typically displays the outdoors temp on the digital dash, which is convenient. Except when there is any warning light on, which takes its place. Want to take a quick glance at the temp? Well right now it’s “low on windshield wiper fluid” degrees outside.
Also why the fuck does this shitty dash scream at me about warnings when I get in the car but not out. By the time I get home I will have completely forgotten about the windshield wiper. How is “also display reminders after shutting the engine off” not the obvious implementation?
Touch screens have no business in dashboards. I don’t care how sleek it looks to replace all the physical buttons. You have to look at a touch screen to use it. That alone makes them entirely unfit for the purpose. Physical buttons that can be identified by touch and provide tactile feedback are the only interfaces that make any fucking sense at all.
This fees like something so obvious that I cannot understand how we got here.
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.
Do you have any recommendations for older anime?
Well you didn’t ask me nor did you provide parameters other than age so here’s a list (mostly in the order I remember them, varying genres and ages, all pre-2010 many pre-2000):
Cowboy Bebop Samurai Champloo Ruroni Kenshin Devilman (OG 1976, NOT reboot) Mazinger Z Galazy Express 999 Golden Boy Trigun Cat Soup (movie) Berserk Big O Samurai Pizza Cats Bobobo-Bo Bo-Bobo Shin Chan FLCL Dragon Ball (OG, Z, ignore GT) Fist of the North Star Yu Yu Hakusho Inuyasha Golgo 13 Ghost Stories Hare and Guu Lupin III Sailor MoonAnd I’m sure I’m forgetting some.
This one sparks joy.
This one (ETA: my '97 Prelude) sparks so much joy.
I so very much preferred speedometers like that which had every 10 marked rather than every 20 like so many seem to do
I am partial to the windshield projection style. It is truly fantastic for keeping your eyes on the road while seeing your speed
The two-tiered cluster of my Civic really grew on me. The speedometer is up really high so it’s almost always in your line of sight.
The Civic’s split dash was apparently generally hated, but I really liked it, for just that reason… The year after mine they switched it back to a single cluster, which I think is unfortunate
