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Do you dislike digital speedometers?
by gifnamething 6y ago
Do you dislike digital speedometers?
- Causality1 6y agoDigital speedometers are horrible. A constantly-changing digit is so much less pleasant to look at than a smoothly-moving needle.
- WalterBright 6y agoA changing digit display also gives no feel for how fast it is changing, which can be just as important as the value. (The same goes for my volt-ohm meter.)
- WalterBright 6y agoYes. Although I always wear glasses when driving, with an analog speedo I can see it and know the speed without needing to directly look and focus on it. Boeing recognized this on their flight deck gauges. A gauge would use both a needle (digitally rendered) and a numeric value, reaping the benefits of both. They went even further - the gauge display would be green, amber, or red depending on good, caution, bad. This makes it real easy to check the instruments quickly - all green => everything is good.